Zechariah

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• A challenging book
• Prophetic
• Symbolic language
• We can still learn from it
• May be hard to understand, 2 Pt. 316
• Can understand, Eph. 517

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Historical Context
Message
Lessons
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Historical Context
Babylons invasion of Judah Babylon defeated by
Persians Jews returned home in 536
B.C. Zechariah overlapped Haggai Zech 11 Hag.
11 Zech. 17 Hag. 210
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Message
The people were urged to repent, 11-6
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Message

• Series of eight visions, 17-68
• Horsemen, 17-17
• Horns, 118-21
• Measuring line, 21-5
• Joshua the High Priest, 31-5
• Lampstand trees, 41-10
• Flying scroll, 51-4
• Woman in basket, 55-11
• Chariots, 61-8

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• Crowning of Joshua, 69-15
• What does God require, 7-8
• Fasting, 73?
• Obedience, 75-7
• Fathers did not obey, 78-14
• God will restore the people, 8

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• Triumph of Gods kingdom, 9-14
• Judgment of nations, 9-11
• Judgment, 93, 4
• Restoration, 1010
• Good shepherd rejected, 1111-13

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• Triumph of Gods kingdom, 9-14
• Deliverance of Israel, 12-14
• Jerusalem to stand, 129
• Penitent, 1210
• False prophets cut off, 132
• Remnant saved by Savior, 137-9
• Triumph of Gods kingdom, 148, 9

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Lessons

• We must learn from the past, 12-4 1 Cor. 1011
• Nations
• God delivers, Ex. 1413, 14
• God punishes, Num. 1422, 23
• Individuals
• God blesses, 1 Sam. 16, 17
• God chastens, 2 Sam. 11, 12

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• Gods Word endures, 15, 6
• Evil men die, Gen. 322-24 Prov. 222
• Good men die, Rev. 1413
• Gods Word remains,
• OT
• NT, 1 Pt. 122-25

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Lessons

• God desires obedience, not fasting, 71-7 cf. 1
  Sam. 1522, 23
• Soup kitchen
• Christmas plays
• Nativity scenes

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Lessons

• Prophecies about Christ were fulfilled
• The BRANCH, Zech. 612, 13
• Isa. 111-10
• Entry to Jerusalem, Zech. 99, 10
• Mt. 211-11
• Thirty pieces of silver, Zech. 1111-13
• Mt. 2614-16 276, 7

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• A challenging book
• Prophetic
• Symbolic language
• We can still learn from it
• May be hard to understand, 2 Pt. 316
• Can understand, Eph. 517

Zechariah