He Came In Flesh
Be silent all flesh…Zechariah 2:13
The last prophet of the Old Testament to speak of ‘the flesh’ is Zechariah. In 2:13 the word flesh refers to the whole person: be silent all flesh. In the other three references, verses 11:9, 11:16, and 14:12, flesh refers to the person’s skin and muscle. These images are not pleasant to imagine.
Which brings us back to 2:13: Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for He is raised up out of His holy habitation. Chapter 2 is God’s warning to Israel and the world of impending judgment. Be silent, God is coming! And when He does, verse 12: The LORD will take possession of Judah as His inheritance in the Holy Land, and will again choose Jerusalem. More of what will happen when He comes is described in verses 10 and 11.
However, when you combine these verses with the other passages where flesh is mentioned, you will get the complete picture. And it will not be pleasant.
This brings us back to God’s plan to restore what was lost in the garden. In the garden, the perfect harmony between God and man was destroyed by sin. The rest of the Bible is the revealing of God’s plan to restore man—to fix the flesh of people created in His image.
For this reason, Jesus, the Son of God, became flesh. He took a human form. The Lamb of God came as a man born of woman conceived by the Spirit, perfect in every way to be God’s Passover Lamb for the absolute remission of sin of all mankind. This is the gospel.
Romans 1:1-4. Speaking of his apostleship, Paul wrote: Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God which He promised before through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures, concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.
Jesus came in the flesh to show us how to rule over our flesh, that is, our weakness to do what we know not to do and to not do what we know we should do.
