Life-Study of Zechariah

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An Introductory Word _{msg. 1}
The Visions of Consolation and Promise (1) _{msg. 2}

I. The vision of a man as the Angel of Jehovah riding on a red horse and standing among the myrtle trees in the bottoms of the valley
A. A man
B. The Angel of Jehovah
C. Riding on a red horse
D. The myrtle trees
E. Standing among the myrtle trees in the bottoms of the valley
F. Behind the Angel of Jehovah, there being red, reddish-brown, and white horses
G. The red, reddish-brown, and white horses having been sent by Jehovah to go to and fro on the earth
H. The Angel of Jehovah interceding
I. Jehovah answering the angel who spoke with Zechariah
II. The vision of the four horns and the four craftsmen
A. An answer to Christ's intercession
B. The four horns
C. The four craftsmen

The Visions of Consolation and Promise (2) _{msg. 3}

III. The vision of a Man with a measuring line in His hand
A. A Man
B. A measuring line
C. To measure Jerusalem
D. Her wall of fire round about and the glory within her
E. The crucial significance of this vision to the people of Zion
1. Jehovah having spread them out like the four winds of the heavens
2. Jehovah wanting them to flee from the land of the north to escape
3. Christ as the One sent by Jehovah of hosts and as the Sender, Jehovah of hosts
4. The rejoicing of the daughter of Zion
5. Many nations joining themselves to Jehovah and becoming His people
6. Jehovah inheriting Judah as His portion
7. All flesh hushing themselves before Jehovah

The Visions of Consolation and Promise (3) _{msg. 4}

IV. The vision of Joshua the high priest perfected, established, and strengthened by the Angel of Jehovah with Zerubbabel the Governor of Judah
A. The Angel showing Zechariah Joshua the High Priest
B. Standing before the Angel of Jehovah to be perfected, established, and strengthened
1. Resisted by Satan standing at his right hand
2. Jehovah's defense extended to him
3. The perfection of Christ as the Angel of Jehovah extended to Joshua
a. Removing the filthy garments from him
b. Clothing him with stately robes
c. Crowning him with a clean turban upon his head
d. Testifying to Him
e. Strengthening Him with Zerubbabel the Governor of Judah
1) A type of Christ
2) The stone that Jehovah set before Joshua
a) Seven eyes being upon this stone
b) Jehovah engraving the engraving of the stone
c) Jehovah removing the iniquity of the holy land in one day
3) Each of the children of Israel inviting his neighbor to come under the vine and under the fig tree

The Visions of Consolation and Promise (4) _{msg. 5}

V. The vision of the golden lampstand and the two olive trees
A. A vision to strengthen Zerubbabel the Governor of Judah in the kingship
B. The significance of the priesthood of Joshua and the lampstand of gold
C. The lampstand
1. Its substance
2. Its form
3. Its expression
4. Its supply
5. Christ, the nation of Israel, and the local churches
D. The two olive trees on the two sides of the lampstand
E. Zerubbabel, the Governor of Judah, who laid the foundation of the rebuilding of the temple, bringing forth the topstone
F. The topstone with shouts of grace

The Visions of Consolation and Promise (5) _{msg. 6}

VI. The vision of the flying scroll
A. The significance of the flying scroll
B. Its length of twenty cubits and its breadth of ten cubits
C. The curse
D. The significance of stealing
E. The significance of swearing falsely by Jehovah's name
F. God's judgment of sins reaching the house of the sinners and lodging there
VII. The vision of the ephah vessel
A. Its appearance in all the land
B. A woman sitting within the ephah vessel
C. A lead cover thrown over the opening of the ephah vessel
D. Two women going forth
E. Two women lifting up the ephah vessel between the earth and the heavens
F. A house built for the woman in the land of Shinar

The Visions of Consolation and Promise (6) _{msg. 7}

VIII. The vision of the four chariots
A. The significance of the four chariots
1. Each chariot being equipped with horses
2. Horses of different colors
B. The significance of the two mountains
C. The significance of the mountains of brass
D. These who are going forth to the land of the north giving rest to God's Spirit in the land of the north
IX. The concluding word to confirm the eight visions
A. By the crowning of Joshua the high priest
B. For the assurance of the completion of the rebuilding of the temple of God
C. The splendid crown being as a reminder in the temple of Jehovah

The Advice to Israel to Turn from the Vanity of Their Ritualistic Religion to the Reality of a Godly Life and the Desire of Jehovah to Restore Israel _{msg. 8}

I. The advice to Israel to turn from the vanity of their ritualistic religion to the reality of a godly life
A. To turn from the vanity of their ritualistic religion
B. To Turn to the reality of a godly life
1. To hearken to the word of God
2. Judging with judgment of truth
3. Each man speaking truth to his neighbor
4. Loving truth and peace
II. The desire of Jehovah to restore Israel
A. The desire of Jehovah and the restoration of Israel
1. Jehovah of hosts being jealous for Zion with a Great Jealousy
2. Jehovah returning to Zion and dwelling within Jerusalem
3. Old men and old women dwelling in the streets of Jerusalem
4. The streets of the city being full of boys and girls playing
5. It being wonderful both in the sight of the remnant of Israel and in the sight of Jehovah
6. Jehovah saving His people from the land of the east and from the land of the going down of the sun
7. The children of Israel being encouraged to be strong
8. The remnant of the children of Israel earning wages, and their animals too
9. Jehovah causing the remnant of Israel to inherit blessings
10. Jehovah saving the people, and the people becoming a blessing
11. The fasts becoming joy and rejoicing and cheerful feasts to the house of Judah
B. The nations coming to Israel to entreat the favor of Jehovah, and the children of Israel being priests to them
1. Peoples, even the inhabitants of many cities, coming to Israel
2. Ten men taking hold of the skirt of a Jewish man and saying that they will go with Him
3. The children of Israel being priests to the nations

The Prophecies of Encouragement (1) _{msg. 9}

I. The prophecy concerning the nations around Judah in relation to Israel
A. Concerning the destruction carried out on the nations around Judah by Alexander the Great
B. The Lord protecting Jerusalem with its temple as His house
C. Christ being temporarily welcomed as the King into Jerusalem in a lowly form
D. The millennial kingdom as a time of restoration
E. Concerning the victory of the Jewish Maccabean heroes over Antiochus Epiphanes

The Prophecies of Encouragement (2) _{msg. 10}

II. The prophecy concerning the Lord's loving visitation to Israel
A. The Lord encouraging the children of Israel to seek more blessings
B. The Lord punishing the false shepherds
C. The Lord visiting the house of Judah as His flock
D. From Judah coming forth the cornerstone, the peg, the battle bow, and every ruler together
E. The house of Judah and the people of Ephraim being as mighty men trampling their enemies
F. Jehovah whistling for them and gathering them

The Prophecies of Encouragement (3) _{msg. 11}

III. The prophecy concerning the living of Israel under the oppression of the Roman Empire
A. The destruction carried out in the neighborhood of Israel by the Roman Empire
B. The children of Israel falling into their neighbors' hand and into the hand of their king
C. Jehovah as Jesus shepherding the afflicted of the flock of Israel
D. The Messiah, as the proper Shepherd of Israel, being detested, attacked, rejected, and sold for thirty pieces of silver
E. The children of Israel being left to the foolish and worthless shepherds

The Prophecies of Encouragement (4) _{msg. 12}

IV. The prophecy concerning Israel's destiny in the great war of Armageddon, in their household salvation, and in the millennium
A. In the great war of Armageddon
1. The greatest war among mankind
2. A war at the end of the great tribulation
3. A war motivated by Antichrist
4. A war waged by Satan through his human followers
5. A war fought by Antichrist with his followers directly against Christ with His overcomers
6. A war that will be the great winepress of the fury of God trodden by Christ
7. The nations that participate being gathered also by Jehovah God
8. Jehovah making Jerusalem a cup of reeling and a burdensome stone to all the besieging peoples
9. Jehovah striking all those who besiege Jerusalem during this war
10. Jehovah of hosts being the strength of the inhabitants of Jerusalem
11. Jehovah as Christ coming with His saints
a. The feet of Jehovah as Christ standing on the Mount of Olives
b. The remnant of Israel fleeing into the valley of Jehovah's mountains
c. In that day there being no light

The Prophecies of Encouragement (5) _{msg. 13}

B. In their household salvation
1. Hardness coming upon a part of Israel
2. All Israel to be saved
3. Perhaps taking place while the great war of Armageddon is about to end
4. Jehovah God pouring out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplications
a. Wailing over Him with wailing and crying bitterly over Him with bitter crying
b. There being great wailing in Jerusalem
5. The divine provision and the sovereign preparation for the household salvation of Israel
a. The divine provision of a redeemer with His redemption
1) God providing an opened fountain
2) God cutting off the names of the idols and causing the false prophets and the unclean spirit to pass from the land
3) Christ coming to be the real prophet but being rejected and wounded in His side in the house of Israel, His relatives in the flesh
4) Christ, the fellow of Jehovah, coming as the God-sent Shepherd to the children of Israel but being attacked unto death by them
b. The sovereign preparation of a people to receive the redeemer with His redemption
1) God reacting to the rejection of Christ by the children of Israel and turning His hand upon them as the little ones
2) In the great tribulation two-thirds of them being cut off by Antichrist
3) One-third of the remnant being left in the land
4) They calling on the Lord's name and the Lord answering them

The Prophecies of Encouragement (6) _{msg. 14}

C. In the millennium
1. Living waters going forth from Jerusalem
2. Jehovah as Christ being King over all the earth
3. Jerusalem being raised up and dwelling in her place
4. People dwelling in Jerusalem, and there being no more curse
5. Everyone left from all the nations that went forth against Jerusalem going up from year to year to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles
6. Holiness to Jehovah of hosts
A comparison of two main categories of things in the books of Daniel and Zechariah
I. Of the things concerning human government
A. In the book of Daniel
B. In the book of Zechariah
II. Of the things concerning Christ
A. In the book of Daniel
B. In the book of Zechariah
A word concerning our need to be brought into the realm of God's economy

A Word Concerning the Human Spirit and the Christ Unveiled in Zechariah _{msg. 15}

Sister verses in Zechariah and Isaiah
Worshipping God in Spirit
The Lord being with our spirit
Our spirit and the sevenfold intensified Spirit
Visions concerning Christ
Details concerning Christ
In His first coming
In His second coming
Christ and the temple of God
Christ's judgment upon three categories of things

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