Read: Haggai 2, Zechariah 1- 5; Ezra 5:2
The temple they were building didn’t have the splendor and majesty of Solomon’s temple. Solomon’s temple was a picture of God’s temple in heaven. This temple was much more simple. It represents us - ordinary people who are the temple of the Holy Spirit. God told Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah and to Jeshua, the son of the High Priest that even though this temple didn’t compare to the first one, they were to be strong and keep building because one day he would shake the heavens and the earth and the treasures of all the nations would be brought to this Temple. In this Temple God would put his glory. God did just that on the day of Pentecost. God gave the church the gift of the Holy Spirit and placed him inside his believers.
God spoke to Zechariah in dreams and visions. He showed him a man on a red horse, four animal horns, four blacksmiths, a man with a measuring line, just to name a few. Zechariah understood that these weren’t just pizza dreams or his imagination running wild on him. He understood the language of God. God speaks in enigmas, dreams, mysteries so he was constantly asking the angel what the symbols meant. That is what we need to do. I got tired of waking up from prophetic dreams and wishing I had asked questions during my dream, so I prayed about it. The next time I had a dream like that I actually asked what things meant in the dream. It was amazing! God hides things not from us, but for us. It is our job to ask and seek out the meanings. Sometimes I won’t understand the meaning behind a dream for months or years, then something will stir the memory of that dream and I will know what it means.
Lord, we do ask that you reveal to us mysteries that are being released in our season. Give us eyes to see and ears to hear, and a heart to understand.
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