Here comes the HOPE we were speaking of last time in the form of the coming King! “Behold, your King is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is He, humble and mounted on a donkey” (verse 9b). This is one of my favorite prophecies because of the prep required and the steps of faith […]
God tells Zechariah of a reworking of all the land around Israel. It includes judgment against Israel’s enemies and a new purpose for some. God will stand guard over what He had made. God turns His focus to the enemies that have surrounded Israel all her life. The enmity between them will come to an […]
God shares the future of Zion with Zechariah. This future is for the people then and for the future still to be fulfilled. TRUE peace is still ahead. It has been a LONG and difficult time for Judah since God sent them ‘to the wood shed’ for a serious ‘attitude adjustment’. They were in captivity […]
The people send a question to the priest to ask of the Lord. “Do we continue on with old traditions?” God asks; “Who’s it for? Yourself or Me?” Apparently, some of the ‘traditions’ and observances had made it through the exile. The people of Judah continued with the practices of observing, at least in part, […]
Zechariah is instructed to bring some of the recent exiles and the resources they brought with them to make a crown. A symbol of God’s promise to keep in the Temple. The crown to be made is FIRST to be placed on the head of the current high priest; Joshua. But he doesn’t continue to […]