A day is coming when God will say, “Enough is enough!” and a well-defined seven-year period will begin. This might sound like science fiction if the world hadn’t gone through what it has in the last generation. 

Jesus gave us signs to look for—signposts that tell us we are getting closer to His return. He told us that these signs would be like labor pain—increasing with frequency and intensity. 

This past Sunday, we considered these labor pains as we finished our study in Zechariah. Watch our study of Zechariah 14 as we considered why and how God allows temporary difficulty to get us to see eternity. 

“In that day…” This phrase is repeated 17 times in the last three chapters of Zechariah. The day it refers to is The Day of The Lord—otherwise known as the time of Jacob’s trouble, the seventieth week of Daniel, the day of wrath (just to name a few). 

It’s a distinct, specific, and well-defined seven year period in the future where God will pour out His wrath on a Christ-rejecting world in a final, merciful effort to provide incentive and opportunity for repentance, dealing specifically with the nation of Israel.

“In that day,” a number of things are going to happen, many of which are outlined for us in the last three chapters of the book of Zechariah. Watch our study from Sunday as we begin to consider the events of that time as described in Zechariah 13.

What do you think of when you hear the word Armageddon? Perhaps ideas about the end of the world come to mind? Or maybe thoughts of a great battle? Or possibly the Second Coming of Jesus Christ? 

Armageddon has to do with all of those, but the word “Armageddon” is an English transliteration of the Hebrew “Har Megiddo” which literally means “Mount Megiddo.” At the base of this mountain in Israel is a famous valley where more battles have been fought than just about any other valley on earth. 

It is in this vast plain—in the shadow of Mount Megiddo—where the battle of Armageddon will one day take place. At that battle, Satan, The Anti-Christ, and The False Prophet will somehow convince the armies of the whole earth to gather for the wholesale slaughter of the remaining Jewish people on the planet. 

In the remaining chapters of Zechariah, we get glimpses of this future battle. Watch our study of Zechariah 12 as we begin to look ahead to what this final battle will look like.

​Jesus had access to more power and military might than any leader ever—and yet, His choice of transportation when He triumphantly entered Jerusalem was…a baby donkey. 

We knew He would, for we saw this prediction in prophecy when we studied Zechariah 9. But we read of the fulfillment of this prophecy in Zechariah 11. 

All four gospels record the events of the day of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, but there is something recorded in Luke’s gospel that will help us as we work through Zechariah 11.

Watch our study of Zechariah 11 as we also turn to Luke 19 to understand what was going on the day Jesus entered Jerusalem riding on a baby donkey.

Zechariah 10 contains some very unique promises concerning the Promised Land. Even after the Jewish remnant returned following the Babylonian captivity, God would scatter, then regather His people to the Promised Land a second time in anticipation of the second coming of the Messiah.

Scripture is full of peculiar promises of God’s people being regathered a second time. God’s word is sure—His promises are secure. And we’re seeing these prophecies fulfilled as recently as 1948, when the nation of Israel became a nation again in only one day.

Watch our study of Zechariah 10 as we consider the faithfulness of God to fulfill His promises. 

​In Zechariah 9, we read about three future kings who will enter the city of Jerusalem at different times. God provides Zechariah prophetic details about these three kings so we can see the differences in how they triumphantly entered Jerusalem.

The first king is Alexander the Great—brilliant and ruthless. The second king is Antiochus Epiphanies—vile and violent. The third king is unlike the first two. He is meek and lowly, yet He is the most important king of all—one whose reign will never end.

Watch our study of Zechariah 9 as we consider these three kings and how they each chose different ways to enter the city of Jerusalem.

While in captivity in Babylon, the Jews continued to fast in the fifth month over the destruction of the temple. Now that a new temple was being built, a delegation returned to Jerusalem to ask the priests if they should continue a religious ritual they had instituted for the past 70 years.

But they were missing the bigger point. So the word of the Lord came to Zechariah. The Lord had a question for them—when you fasted, did you really fast for Me?

The focus they had on what they thought they should do revealed their impenitent hearts that no longer felt shame or regret about their actions or attitudes.

Watch our study of Zechariah 7 as we reviewed and reflected on God’s word.

​In Zechariah 6, we read of two more visions Zechariah experienced. In these visions, Zechariah was shown not only the spiritual reality behind what was happening in his day and age, but he was also shown the spiritual reality of events far in the future.

Events like the time of tribulation that falls upon the whole world immediately before the second coming of Jesus Christ to rule and reign as king.

Though things today seem bleak, we can still have hope. Watch our study of Zechariah 6 as we remember that no matter how bad things get, our King is still coming!

“What do you see?” 

Zechariah was asked this question in his sixth vision. And what he saw was…a 15’ x 30’ flying scroll.

It’s important to remember that these visions were physical pictures that communicated spiritual truth. The angel explained the spiritual truth in this vision: the scroll represents the curse that goes out over all the earth. This curse has consequences—corruption and destruction because of sin. 

But this curse has been broken! Galatians 3:13 says, “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written ‘Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree.’” In John 3, Jesus points to a physical picture to understand this spiritual truth. 

There was a time when deadly snakes invaded the camp of the Israelites in the wilderness. Moses pleaded with the Lord to do something and the Lord commanded him to make a bronze serpent, to put it on a pole, and to lift it up. Anyone who was bit by a snake and looked to the bronze serpent would live. 

Jesus explained that this physical picture has a spiritual truth. Bronze is a symbol of judgment and the serpent is a symbol of sin. Lifting it on a pole is a picture of sin being judged for all to look to and live. 

On the cross, Jesus became a curse for us—He became sin so we could become the righteousness of God. All who look to Jesus will be saved—He has rescued us from the curse by becoming cursed for us!