1.THE BOOK OF ZECHARIAH.

INTRODUCTION.

This book may seem complicated after reading the little book of Haggai, yet it is not in reality, as we shall see. Both books are written at the same point in History, which was the turning point in God’s dealings with Jerusalem and the covenant people of Israel.

You can look at the little scroll of Haggai as an introduction to this larger Work of Zechariah.

Zechariah was a priest and a prophet. We begin in the year 500 B.C. in the second year of King Darius in the Mediterranean empire.

Chapter 1:1, we are among the fifty thousand or more Jewish people who returned 16 years earlier from their exile in Babylon. At this time, the priests led the nation.

Zechariah was God’s mouthpiece to challenge the people for their slackness in rebuilding of the Temple.

This book is divided into two sections.

The first 8 chapters are mainly ‘vision’ chapters written during the building of the Temple.

The remaining 6 chapters were written considerably after the Temple was built.

1.THE EARLIER PROPHESIES.

The seven visions are really ‘one’ as they all came in one night on the 24th of November in the reign of Darius.

They were listed in this order.

THE FOUR HORSES.

THE FOUR HORNS AND SMITHS.

THE MEASURING LINE.

THE RECLOTHING OF JOSHUA THE HIGH PRIEST.

THE SCROLL, EPHAH, AND THE WOMEN.

FINALLY, THE FOUR CHARIOTS.

2. LATER PROPHESIES: AFTER THE TEMPLE WAS REBUILT.

THE COMING SHEPHERD KING.

THE BLESSINGS THAT FOLLOW.

THE OFFENCE OF THE SHEPHERD-KING, AND ITS TRAGIC RESULTS.

THE FINAL TRAVAIL AND TRIUMPH OF ZION: JEHOVAH’S VICTORY.

We need to understand that here they look beyond the immediate and local, to an ultimate fulfilment at the second coming of Christ.

The reason why the full realization of such passages is yet future is that when the Messiah-King came and offered Himself to His people, they rejected and crucified Him.

The result being, they delayed the promised age of blessing.

If you and I were alive in this age of Zechariah, would we have listened repented and taken heed to the living Word of God, or would we been as unbelieving as they were.

Some christians today are in a similar position, unbelieving, and disobedient to the warnings of the Lord Jesus.

There will come a time when He will refuse to know them and they in sheer desperation will cry out.

“BUT LORD, WHEN DID WE SEE YOU HUNGRY, THIRSTY, HOMELESS, IN PRISON, OR SICK OR NAKED?”

Sadly, some people think they can live like the devil and still go to Heaven when the time comes.

Dear reader when you are truly born again, you will obey the Lord because you “love Him” and appreciate all He has done for you.

You will hate sin and the things of the world and be willing to take up your cross and follow Him.

Maybe it might cost you your very life!

JESUS SEES YOU AS VALUABLE, LOVED AND FORGIVEN.

Come to the Saviour, and make Him Lord, don’t delay, as the time is short before He returns to set up His Kingdom on this earth.🌎

Amen.

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