Read: Zechariah 6:1-7:14; Revelation 15:1-8; Psalm 143:1-12; Proverbs 30:24-28
Zechariah follows Revelation with the red, black, white and dappled horses. They are the four spirits of heaven which are on their way to Babylon, Medo-Persia, Egypt and Rome. In Revelation, God told the church at Laodicea to buy gold tried in the fire. Zechariah was told to take the gold and silver from the exiles who had arrived from Babylon. These are ones who were tried in the fire of trials and persecution. With this gold and silver, God will make a crown for Jesus (Joshua) also called “the branch”. He will build the temple of the Lord. He will be both king and priest.
Zechariah asked the Lord if he should fast in the fifth month since it was the month that Jerusalem’s walls were broken down and the house of the Lord burned down. God answered that they hadn’t fast for him but for themselves. Instead, God wanted them to judge fairly and show true compassion on the widow, the fatherless, the poor, and their brothers. They were not doing any of these things so God had scattered them across the face of the earth and Jerusalem had become a desolate place.
In Revelation we see the end of God’s wrath and the victorious ones who survived the Great Tribulation given their harps and singing the song of the redeemed. The seven angels were given the bowls of God’s wrath which would be poured out on the earth. All of God’s people have been taken from the earth at the last rapture at Roshashanna and the only ones left are the wicked stubborn people who refused to repent. They will endure the wrath of God.
Lord, your plan is perfect. Help us to walk in your ways today.
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