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Four Horses
By Mark Fackler
Zechariah 6 features a fascinating vision of colored horses, mountains, and an odd reference to God's Spirit finding rest when these powerful horses travel north.
God is protecting his people. Armies threaten from the north. God's horsemen are racing to close that border and secure the peace. Everyone—even God—has been waiting for security and |
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A Basketful of Evil
By Mark Fackler
Zechariah's prophecy is filled with odd visions, none more so than this seventh one. You read it and wonder what's going on. In the symbolic world pictured here, evil is disposed of like garbage in a can. A woman personifying wickedness is put in a basket with a lead top and sent to a house in Babylon. It's as if God decided to take out all the |
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Housecleaning
By Mark Fackler
If you want people to get your message, put it on a billboard. If you want every passerby to see the billboard, light it up. If you want everybody talking about it—well, there are ways to do that too, none of which can be described in a devotional booklet.
In Zechariah's vision, God puts his message on a flying billboard intended to be seen and |
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Small Things
By Mark Fackler
To some of the people in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel's effort to rebuild the temple seemed pathetic. It wasn't something sophisticated people would brag about at a cocktail party, or put down on their résumés in order to impress. Such folks "despised the day of small things."
To large-project, worldly people, much of God's work seems back-burner. To |
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Universal Power
By Mark Fackler
We need them and we hate them: those alarms that disturb our rest while the sky is still dark and the body so sleepy.
Zechariah's fifth vision comes to him this way. An angel shakes him awake, then asks him to describe what he sees. Zechariah obliges, but wants to know what these olive trees and golden lamps are about. "Not to mention, you woke |
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