OPINION: The Two Anointed Ones of Zechariah 4
Two Men, feeding the same candlestick, the same “golden oil”. Jesus Christ says in John 6:63, to the disciples who would later be His apostles, “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” In John 17, Jesus Christ prays unto His Father in Heaven, God, “I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. “(verse 6) And, “For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. “(Verse 8) Pictured in Zechariah 4, are TWO APOSTLES feeding the same Worldwide Church of God.
“To my great sorrow I learned a costly lesson. Some have merely “joined” the Church–not being really converted as I had supposed. Human nature was still with them. They still were on the “GETTING” way of life–not Christ’s “GIVING” way. To my great sorrow, I had to learn that, even in the Church, many who are GETTING their living on salary from the Church, still live by the “GETTING” standard, not God’s way of “GIVING.” The more they GET the more they want–and when they get it they are never satisfied, but want more.”