Zechariah

Outline

• I. The introductory word
• II. The visions of consolation and promise
• A. The vision of a man as the Angel of Jehovah riding on a red horse and standing among the myrtle trees
• B. The vision of the four horns and the four craftsmen
• C. The vision of a man with a measuring line in His hand
• D. The vision of Joshua the high priest perfected, established, and strengthened by the Angel of Jehovah with Zerubbabel the governor of Judah
• E. The vision of the lampstand of gold and two olive trees
• F. The vision of the flying scroll
• G. The vision of the ephah vessel
• H. The vision of the four chariots
• I. The concluding word to confirm the eight visions by the crowning of Joshua as a type of Christ
• III. The advice to Israel to turn from the vanity of their ritualistic religion of a godly life, and the desire of Jehovah to restore Israel
• IV. The prophecies of encouragement centered on Christ
• A. The prophecy concerning the nations around Judah in relation to Israel
• 1. Concerning the destruction carried out on the nations around Judah by Alexander the Great, the king of the Grecian empire (336-323 B.C., with the influence of his four successors extending to 44 B.C.)
• 2. The Lord protecting Jerusalem with its temple as His house
• 3. Christ temporarily welcomed as the King into Jerusalem in a lowly form
• 4. Concerning the victory of the Jewish Maccabean heroes over Antiochus Epiphanes the king of Syria (175-164 B.C.)
• B. The prophecy concerning the Lord's loving visitation to Israel
• C. The prophecy concerning the living of Israel under the oppression of the Roman Empire
• 1. The destruction carried out in the neighborhood of Israel by the Roman Empire
• 2. The children of Israel falling into their neighbor's hand and into the hand of their neighbor's king — living under the tyranny of the Roman Empire
• 3. Jehovah (as Jesus) shepherding the afflicted of the flock of Israel
• 4. The Messiah, as the proper Shepherd of Israel, detested, attacked, rejected, and sold for the price of a slave
• 5. The children of Israel left to the foolish and worthless shepherds
• D. The prophecy concerning Israel's destiny in the great war of Armageddon, in their household salvation, and in the millennium
• 1. In the great war of Armageddon
• 2. The divine provision and the sovereign preparation for the household salvation of Israel
• a. The divine provision of a Redeemer with His redemption
• b. The sovereign preparation of a people to receive the Redeemer with His redemption
• 3. In the millennium