ZECHARIAH

GOD REMEMBERS

BACKGROUND HISTORY:

•586 bc Babylon destroys Jerusalem and Solomon’s Temple

•539 bc Babylon falls to Persia –King Cyrus

•538 bc Zerubbabel (David’s line) – Governor & Joshua –High Priest

appointed by King Cyrus (Ezra –the Temple and Nehemiah –Jerusalem wall)

•535 bc Temple’s new foundation laid, feasts started again

•530 bc Xerxes I (Esther’s story) stops the rebuilding – stopped for 18 years

•520 bc Darius (new Persian King)

•522 bc Zerubbabel & Joshua ask Darius to review Cyrus’ decrees, he blesses

Israel with money and protection and encourages the rebuilding of the

Temple

•Apo (“from”) and Kalupto (“to cover”).

•Describes an other worldly journey in which the author

is taken to another place

•Portrays both the author’s day and the world at the

end of time

•Highly symbolic

•Struggle between good and evil

•God intervenes in history and triumphs

EIGHT

VISIONS

Two

Burdens

Four Horsemen

Four Chariots

Joshua the High Priest

Zerubbabel & the Lampstand

Measuring Line: Flee Babylon

Horns & Craftsmen: Judgment

Flying Scroll: Judgment

Woman and Basket: Shinar

A Call for True Justice

A Promise of Future Restoration

Two

Sermons

Judgment on Enemies of Israel

The Coming of the Lord

1:18

12:1

1:1

2:1

3:1

4:1

5:1

5:5

6:1

7:1

8:1

9:1

ZECHARIAH

FOUR HORSEMEN/

CHARIOTS (1&6)

Revelation

Four horsemen (6)

Man with a measuring

line measures

Jerusalem (2:1-2)

Man with a rod

measures the temple

mount (11:1-2)

Satan ready to accuse

Joshua the high priest

(3:1)

Satan daily accusing

the brethren (12:10)

•Satan accuses Joshua (the High

Priest) of having dirty robes and a

dirty turban

•Joshua is silent

•The Lord stops Satan, commands

Joshua’s robes be changed and

turban new

•“…this man is a burning branch

pulled out of the fire…”

ZECHARIAH 3:8

V8 NOW LISTEN, JOSHUA THE HIGH PRIEST, YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS

WHO ARE SITTING IN FRONT OF YOU-- INDEED THEY ARE MEN WHO ARE

A SYMBOL, FOR BEHOLD, I AM GOING TO BRING IN MY SERVANT THE

BRANCH.

In that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and

glorious, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride and the

adornment of the survivors of Israel.

“BEHOLD, THE DAYS ARE COMING,” DECLARES THE LORD,

“WHEN I WILL RAISE UP FOR DAVID A RIGHTEOUS BRANCH;

AND HE WILL REIGN AS KING AND ACT WISELY AND DO JUSTICE AND

RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE LAND.

6IN HIS DAYS JUDAH WILL BE SAVED, AND ISRAEL WILL DWELL

SECURELY; AND THIS IS HIS NAME BY WHICH HE WILL BE CALLED,

‘THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.’” (JEREMIAH 23:5-6).

FULFILLED IN JESUS

•His name is Branch

•He will “branch out” (6:12)

•He will build the Temple (6:13)

•He will rule (6:13)

•He will be both priest and king (6:13).

•Those who are far off will come and build the Temple (6:15)

ZECHARIAH 8:9 & 13

THUS SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS, “LET YOUR HANDS BE STRONG,

YOU WHO ARE LISTENING IN THESE DAYS TO THESE WORDS

FROM THE MOUTH OF THE PROPHETS…”

V13 “…I WILL SAVE YOU THAT YOU MAY BECOME A BLESSING.

DO NOT FEAR; LET YOUR HANDS BE STRONG.”

ZECHARIAH 9:9 TRIUMPHAL ENTRY PROPHESIED

REJOICE GREATLY, O DAUGHTER OF ZION!

SHOUT IN TRIUMPH, O DAUGHTER OF JERUSALEM!

BEHOLD, YOUR KING IS COMING TO YOU;

HE IS JUST AND ENDOWED WITH SALVATION,

HUMBLE, AND MOUNTED ON A DONKEY,

EVEN ON A COLT, THE FOAL OF A DONKEY.

ZECHARIAH 11:12-13

JESUS SOLD FOR 30 PIECES OF SILVER

PROPHESIED

I SAID TO THEM, “IF IT IS GOOD IN YOUR SIGHT, GIVE ME MY

WAGES; BUT IF NOT, NEVER MIND!” SO THEY WEIGHED OUT

THIRTY SHEKELS OF SILVER AS MY WAGES. 13 THEN THE LORD

SAID TO ME, “THROW IT TO THE POTTER, THAT MAGNIFICENT

PRICE AT WHICH I WAS VALUED BY THEM.”SO I TOOK THE

THIRTY SHEKELS OF SILVER AND THREW THEM TO THE POTTER

IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD.

ZECHARIAH 12:10

JESUS PIERCED PROPHESIED:

“I WILL POUR OUT ON THE HOUSE OF DAVID AND ON THE

INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM, THE SPIRIT OF GRACE AND OF

SUPPLICATION, SO THAT THEY WILL LOOK ON ME WHOM THEY HAVE

PIERCED; AND THEY WILL MOURN FOR HIM, AS ONE MOURNS FOR

AN ONLY SON, AND THEY WILL WEEP BITTERLY OVER HIM LIKE THE

BITTER WEEPING OVER A FIRSTBORN.”

THE MESSIAH’S 2ND COMING PROPHESIED:

In that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives,

which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the

Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to

west by a very large valley, so that half of the

mountain will move toward the north and the other

half toward the south.

ZECHARIAH 14:8 & 9

AND IN THAT DAY LIVING WATERS WILL FLOW OUT OF

JERUSALEM, HALF OF THEM TOWARD THE EASTERN SEA AND

THE OTHER HALF TOWARD THE WESTERN SEA; IT WILL BE IN

SUMMER AS WELL AS IN WINTER.

AND THE LORD WILL BE KING OVER ALL THE EARTH; IN

THAT DAY THE LORD WILL BE THE ONLY ONE, AND HIS NAME

THE ONLY ONE.

WHAT DO WE SEE?

Zechariah –God remembers: He will

never leave or forsake you!

You are the branch that was pulled

out of the fire!

From the beginning of time, God

planned for the Logos –the Word of

God to bleed, die, resurrected, and

return to reign over all the earth

through eternity

He remembers and keeps His promises!