ZECHARIAH

(Answers)

Updated 001/2024

CHAPTER 1

1. Zechariah prophesied in the eighth month of the second year of King Darius of Persia (the same time as Haggai; Haggai 1:1; 2:1; Ezra 5:1).

2. When we turn back to Him God returns to us.

3. These are angels for the Lord that go through out all the earth to report to the Lord and to do His will.

4. The nations helped deliver the anger of God against Israel and Judah but had their own evil intentions.

5. The four nations who scattered Judah (Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, and Persia).

6. The four craftsmen are the kingdoms that will remove the nations that scattered Judah. (This will be Greece, Rome, the revived kingdom of the Anti-Christ, and finally the Millennial Kingdom of Christ (after His second coming.)

CHAPTER 2

1. The people would experience a growth in prosperity and livestock overflowing the walls. God would be a wall of protection around them.

2. This is a divine angel speaking to Zechariah. He is symbolic of or is the Messiah, Jesus Christ. Since the following verse includes many nations that are joined to the Lord, this will happen only after Jesus comes and the gospel spreads to all nations. Jesus will restore glory to God and His people and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem

CHAPTER 3

1. a. The Angel of the Lord is the spokesperson for God. He is symbolic of or is Jesus the Messiah. b. The angel removes the sins of the priesthood (represented by Joshua).

2. The Branch is the Messiah or Jesus by whom God will remove the iniquity of the land in one day.

3. To invite your neighbor under your vine and fig tree is a figure of speech that indicated a time of peace and prosperity for the people.

CHAPTER 4

1. The lampstand represents the complete Spirit of God and the out pouring light (of His word).

2. Zechariah will know the angel spoke the truth when Zerubbabel begins and completes the temple. (Spiritually, Jesus is a descendant of Zerrubabel of the line of David and He completes the true temple.)

3. The plumb line signifies the start of the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem by Zerubbabel. (Spiritually, Jesus has the plumb line to build the new temple within us.)

4. The seven eyes (from the stone Zec 3:9) are the eyes of the Lord, which scan to and fro over all the earth. (The eyes are the fullness of the divine Spirit given to the Messiah (Rev 5:6), to build the future spiritual temple,)

5. The two olive trees are the two anointed ones who stand continually beside God (Holy Spirit and Jesus). (The olive trees continuously supply the oil to the lamps that goes out to the children of God signifying that God will continually maintain and preserve his Church.)

CHAPTER 5

1. The scroll contained the judgment of the unclean in Israel and Judah (of people and priests).

2. The basket is the purging of the unclean in Judah and Israel.

3. The woman is the wicked people of Israel and Judah whose fate is sealed.

4. The two women symbolize Assyria and Babylon, agents of God, that carry the woman in the basket to Babylon.

CHAPTER 6

1. The spirits are angels of God who carry out the will of God.

2. The crown was a symbol for the new temple and kingdom to come under the rulership of the priest-king.

3. The Branch is the one who is to build the temple of the Lord. Joshua the High Priest is over the physical temple; Jesus the Messiah is over the spiritual temple.

4. The new crown will establish unity between the leadership of the king and the spiritual guidance of the priests.

CHAPTER 7

1. The people fasted for themselves and their plight, not really for God.

2. God requires obedience more than fasting.

CHAPTER 8

1. The future Jerusalem will be in peace and posterity with God ruling in the midst.

2. People from other nations will come to pray before God.

3. Ten from each nation (the complete number of people of each nation) will want to know the God of the Jews.

CHAPTER 9

1. Tyre and other nations will lose their power through the judgment of the Lord. Tyre will be destroyed and burned. (The kingdom of Greece will be the one God will use.)

2. a. The King will be lowly and arrive riding on a donkey into Jerusalem. b. Jesus is the king.

3. God will strengthen His people to devour and subdue as He did for David against Goliath.

CHAPTER 10

1. There was no godly leadership from the priests, rulers, and the prophets.

2. Jesus of the house of Judah would be the cornerstone and rule over all people.

3. The sea represented the obstacles of Israel’s return that God will smite and remove for the glory and good of His people.

CHAPTER 11

1. The word of God is a fire of truth and judgment against the ungodly rulers and leaders of Israel. (This is coming through the Roman empire.)

2. The two staffs represent the grace of God and the unity of His people at that time.

3. Judas Iscariot betrays Jesus for thirty pieces of silver.

4. Since the people will reject the Good Shepherd, Jesus, they will have the authority of the Romans over them (and later the Anti-Christ).

CHAPTER 12

1. No one will be able to subdue Israel as they want.

2. The governors are other nations who are in charge over Israel and who benefit from them.

3. Judah in tents are those outside the city and are not of the Jews. These are the Gentiles who will accept the Lord's salvation first before the Jews.

4. God will bring all to one faith, one God, and one Spirit. There will be no Jew or Gentile and no one better than the other.

5. God has mercy on the house of David to cleanse them from their sins through the sacrifice of His son, Jesus.

6. The people had rejected the Messiah; therefore they rejected God who sent Him.

7. Later the people would mourn when they realize that Jesus was the Messiah but they had rejected Him.

CHAPTER 13

1. Jesus is the fountain of living water through forgiveness of sins by His death.

2. Through the spreading of the gospel, the false idols and prophets will diminish. (We will see the light and it will set us free.)

3. Jesus is the shepherd and companion of God. He will be stuck (rejected) and the Jews will once again be scattered.

4. The majority of the people will be destroyed but the remnant will be God's people and even those will be tested to refine them.

CHAPTER 14

1. This signifies God's word, which will judge His people and all the nations.

2. This is the time of the rapture of the tribulation saints and the battle of Armageddon. The valley is the place of judgment on the nations who come against Israel but where the chosen ones of God will find refuge.

3. There will be no more the word of God but only judgment. (Rev 6:12-13).

4. When Jesus returns for the saints and sets up His kingdom there will be no more rulers over man but He.

5. The people and nations and all that they owned will be completely destroyed (by a fervent dissolving of the flesh).

6. The nations will go up to Jerusalem year by year to worship the Lord and keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

7. There will be no false worshiper or idolater in God's house or in the land ever again.