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 1:18-21
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I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four horns.
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I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these?" He answered me, "These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem."
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Yahweh showed me four craftsmen.
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Then I asked, "What are these coming to do?" He said, "These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it."
