Zechariah - Chapters 1-6

The Amazing Bible. Book Club

Zechariah 1:7-6:15 cover the eight "night visions," and they get that name because 1:8 reads, "During the night I had a vision..." The 1st vision was of a man on a red horse among the myrtle trees and behind him were red, brown, and white horses. They were scouts throughout the land, and their report was the earth was at rest, and then the horsemen asked when will the Lord vindicate Jerusalem? The Lord responded He would return to Jerusalem and His house will be rebuilt. Vision two was of four horns who were the ones who scattered Jerusalem, Judah, and Israel, and the craftsman will throw down those horns. The 3rd vision was a man with a measuring line to measure how long and wide is Jerusalem, but then another messenger came and said it is no use to measure it because there will be so many people from many nations who will be joined with the Lord, and the place will be packed. Plus the Lord will be the firewall around and the Lord will be the glory within it. The 4th vision was about Joshua the High Priest who was in filthy clothes, but he took them off, and his sin was forgiven, and he received clean clothes. Zechariah cried out he needed a turban as well. Vision five was a word of encouragement to the governor, Zerubbabel, and it was "Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit says the Lord Almighty" (4:6). They will finish the building of the temple. The 6th vision was a flying scroll which was a curse over the whole land to anyone who steals or lies. The 7th vision was a woman named "Wickedness," and she was in a basket, and the Lord put the lid on it. Two other women who had "wind in their wings" lifted the basket "between heaven and earth (5:9), and took it to Babylonia until the right time. The last vision was again chariots which were the four spirits of heaven going throughout the whole world, and then Zechariah was to take gold and silver from some men who arrived from Babylon and make a crown and place it, not on the governor Zerubbabel, a descendant of king David, but on the High Priest, Joshua. There was a combining of the kingly and the priestly office. C. Hassell Bullock pointed out this combined, "in the Messianic person called the Branch."