Zechariah

• Zechariah tell the people "return to God and He will return to you"
• A vision of horses comes and an angel tells Zechariah that the Lord sent them to Earth; the angel asked when God would show mercy to Jerusalem
• The angel then gave this message: the Lord loves Jerusalem and was angry with nations who felt safe & they made it worse; the temple will be rebuilt, God will return, riches will come back
• Jerusalem will be measured and the Lord will return to live with the people
• Joshua will become the high priest
• Angel tell Zechariah of lampstands that represent the 2 appointed to serve the Lord
• Zerubbabel (all people) will not succeed alone, but with the Lord's spirit
• Small beginnings are important: Zerubbabel beginning the temple
• Zechariah and angel discus a flying across that is the curse of the land: thieves and those who make false promises will be taken away
• Zechariah sees a basket with a woman in it, she represents sin, 2 winged women carry the basket away to its place in a temple in Babylonia
• 4 chariots pulled by horses, the 4 spirits of heaven, were to go to all the Earth
• A crown was made for Joshua
• The Lord says some rituals were for themselves, not Him
• Do what is right, do evil to no one God said, but the people hardened their hearts and ruined the land
• God will return to Jerusalem to live
• Work hard for the future (build the temple)
• Be truthful and fair
• Enemies will be punished, but the King is coming
• God's promise to bring his people back and be with him as though He never left them
• 2 shepherds care for the flock - 2 sticks broken: Pleasant and Union broke the agreements God had made
• Jerusalem will have God and be saved when all the nations against Jerusalem come to attack
• We will cry over our wrongs against God
• A fountain to cleanse sins will come
• Those who prophesy must die
• Judgement day is coming at Mount of Olives and it will be like no other day
• Lord will be Lord of all, Jerusalem will be safe, everyone else will have terrible disease
• Those left alive will come worship God once a year of they will have no rain for their crops