The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 233
233. Internal Meaning of Zechariah, Chapter 1 (1)
1-4 Those who were descended from Jacob were instructed in the things of the church, from the very beginning, but in vain. (2)
5-6 Therefore what happened to them was according to the Word. (2)
7-10 The successive states of the church even to the end are represented, and the nature of their understanding of the Word is described. (2)
11 It is found that there is no church. (2)
12-13 A new church which will be from the Lord. (11)
14-16 The Lord will institute a new church when the former church has been completely perverted. (11, 3)
17 He will institute it in place of the former. (11, 3)
A new church from the Lord. (11)
18-21 Falsities of evil which have destroyed everything of the church. (3, 15)
Zechariah 1:7-10
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On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
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"I had a vision in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and behind him there were red, brown, and white horses.
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Then I asked, 'My lord, what are these?'" The angel who talked with me said to me, "I will show you what these are."
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The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, "They are the ones Yahweh has sent to go back and forth through the earth."
