Zechariah 8:4-5

This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Once again men and women of ripe old age will sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each of them with cane in hand because of their age. The city streets will be filled with boys and girls playing there.”

From Background Notes [BN] for June 29^th & 30^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

Then the prophet reads the mind of his audience: Isn’t such a future for restored Jerusalem nearly

impossible? “Even though it seems impossible to the remnant of this people in these days, should it also seem impossible to me?”

 

 

Thus says the Yahweh of hosts — Yahweh who commands the armies of heaven to do his bidding. The word translated “impossible” is the Hebrew term pela’, a term we have met in previous studies, and about which we have already made the following observations:

 

Possible meanings of pela’ include: “wonder, hard to understand, marvelous, extraordinary.” What we have here is an emphasis on “inexplicable” and “abnormal.” The word “hard” is the simplest idea inside the term: “Really hard” to do, to explain, or to have happen. These are things beyond human capability, yet things human beings long to have happen. When problems are unsolvable, we have pela’. When solutions are inaccessible, we have pela’. When tasks are too difficult for us, we have pela’. [BN, 5-6]

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