Category: Religion/Spirituality
The opening address of the prophet (chapter i: 1-6) forms an excellent introduction to the visions of comfort and warning which he had and revealed to the people. It is a very pointed and earnest call to repentance: _The Lord has been sore displeased with your fathers._ They w...
_The last conflict--Jerusalem surrounded by armies and besieged and taken--Jehovah's intervention--The escape of the remnant--Living waters flowing out of Jerusalem--The enemies...
13. CHAPTER XII._The second burden, from Chapter xii-xiv.--Jerusalem and the nations.--The conflict of the end.--The chiefs of Judah and the strength promised to the feeble.--Nations destroyed....
1. CHAPTER I.The opening address of the prophet (chapter i: 1-6) forms an excellent introduction to the visions of comfort and warning which he had and revealed to the people. It is a very p...
2. CHAPTER II.The second night vision of Zechariah is closely connected with the first. In the first vision the time is given when the Lord will turn in mercy to Jerusalem--the time when the...
12. CHAPTER XI.The eleventh chapter presents a very dark scene. So far we have seen that the prophet saw in visions and heard from the Lord nothing but blessings and mercies for Israel, restor...
10. CHAPTER IX.With the ninth chapter begins the second part of the book. In it God shows through the prophet new and glorious visions of the Kingdom, the conflicts which His people Israel wil...
14. CHAPTER XIII.As mentioned in the closing sentence of the exposition of the last chapter, the first verse of the 13th chapter belongs to the 12th chapter. The division of the Bible into chapt...
5. CHAPTER V.The three remaining night visions are of a different character. The first visions the prophet had were visions of comfort for Jerusalem and the dispersed nation, the overthrow o...
9. CHAPTER VIII.The eighth chapter contains the most blessed promises concerning the future of Jerusalem and the people Israel. Now the question concerning the fasts is answered in a way the pe...
11. CHAPTER X.The tenth chapter continues to unfold Israel's future blessings and restoration, and in it Ephraim, the house of Israel, is especially mentioned. The chapter begins with a contr...
3. CHAPTER III.The fourth vision is like the first and second, closely connected with the foregoing one. It gives the crowning event of Israel's restoration. The prophet recognizes in the figu...
6. CHAPTER VI.The prophet lifts up his eyes again and sees four chariots which come out from between two mountains which were of brass. In the first chariot the horses are red, in the second...
4. CHAPTER IV.The first three chapters of Zechariah are the foundation of the entire book. The events in these chapters are again and again touched upon in the following visions and prophecie...
8. chapter eight answers the question of the people concerning the fastdays. At the first glance we notice that these two chapters, though starting from a desire of the people in the prophet's day, are yet awaiting their final and greatest fulfillm...
7. CHAPTER VII.The night visions had come to an end. In them, as we have seen, the whole future of Israel, their restoration to the land and regeneration, as well as the theocracy and the judg...