Today’s passage: Zechariah 1:7-21
Helpful thoughts:
- If, like me, you aren’t a horse expert, here is what a “sorrel” horse looks like.
- These angels had been sent to patrol the earth. They were scouting out the nations in preparation for military-like action.
- The nations were found to be at rest, which was a stark contrast to the struggles of Jerusalem.
- God commits here to again defend Jerusalem and bless the people.
- The vision of the four horns and four craftsmen appears to be similar (Pointing to the same events) as that of Daniel 2 and 7.
- If that’s the case, then the fourth “craftsmen” would be Jesus Christ Himself.
Questions to consider:
- What do we learn about God in this passage? He is all-knowing and eternal, and yet He interacts with these angels and with mankind in a way that allows us to interact and learn about who He is, what does that teach us about Him?
- How does God think about and care for those whom He has chosen? Even when He used a foreign nation to discipline Jerusalem, what made him angry about their heart in doing that (Verse 15)?
- Who was the commander of the Lord’s army in verse 11? The Angel of the Lord is a name used in the Old Testament for the Pre-incarnate Christ…how does this scene showing Him to be the commander tie in with Revelation 19:11-21?