"In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo." (Ze.1:1-NIV)
Zechariah was a contemporary of Haggai, we have the date given so the book as with other prophetic writings in the Bible discusses the topical events,- and it is the starting for the end times and nevertheless the truth of narrative never veers from the divine Will as fulfilled by the Son. "In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness".(13:1)
The Spirit uses tags consistently so several visions Four horses, Four carpenters (1:7-21) are dead giveaways to indicate the universality of divine Will. Symbolism of man on the red horse among the myrtle trees is different from the man between the banks of Ulai. (Dan.8:16). Looking up and down have similar significances. The four carpenters are deputed from heaven to "to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it."(1:21)
The Spirit anchors this line as coming from the Lord is key to the rest of the book. "I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem."(1:16) He who has come to Jerusalem mercies shall return where he came from. "He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things."(Ep.4:10)
The line that stretched upon Jerusalem is now taken up in Ze.4:10. "For they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth". Jerusalem in the last book is shown descending from heaven, as New Jerusalem.(Re.21:3)
"In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo." (Ze.1:1-NIV)
Zechariah was a contemporary of Haggai, we have the date given so the book as with other prophetic writings in the Bible discusses the topical events,- and it is the starting for the end times and nevertheless the truth of narrative never veers from the divine Will as fulfilled by the Son. "In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness".(13:1)
The Spirit uses tags consistently so several visions Four horses, Four carpenters (1:7-21) are dead giveaways to indicate the universality of divine Will. Symbolism of man on the red horse among the myrtle trees is different from the man between the banks of Ulai. (Dan.8:16). Looking up and down have similar significances. The four carpenters are deputed from heaven to "to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it."(1:21)
The Spirit anchors this line as coming from the Lord is key to the rest of the book. "I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem."(1:16) He who has come to Jerusalem mercies shall return where he came from. "He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things."(Ep.4:10)
The line that stretched upon Jerusalem is now taken up in Ze.4:10. "For they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth". Jerusalem in the last book is shown descending from heaven, as New Jerusalem.(Re.21:3)
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