Study 2024-2025: Zechariah

The Book of Zechariah 

Overview
- Author:    The Priest + Prophet Zechariah
- What: Addressing the people of the time living as heathens 
-When: 520-516 BC
-Where: Jerusalem
-Why: Repentance and how God will deal with the enemies of Israel

Jesus Deity Claims/ Jesus OT ← → NT:
1:1 = Word of the LORD
1:7 = Word of the LORD
1:12,14 = angel of the LORD
2:7-9 =  the Glorious One (Father)  sends the LORD Almighty (Jesus)
2:10-13 = LORD Almighty to live in Zion (Jerusalem)
3:6 = angel of the LORD
3:8 = Branch
4:8 = Word of the LORD
4:14 = Lord
6:5 = Lord
6:9 = Word of the LORD
6:12-13 = Branch
7:1 = Word of the LORD
7:4  = Word of the LORD
7:8 = Word of the LORD
8:1 = Word of the LORD
8:3 = return to Jerusalem and dwell in Zion (Acts 1:9-12)
8:18  = Word of the LORD
9:4  = Lord
11:11 = Word of the LORD
12:8 = angel of the LORD is God
14:9 = the LORD to be king over the whole earth (Revelation 20:1-6)
14:16  = King

The Trinity Shown:
2:4-5 = “I myself will be a wall of fire” fire is also the Holy Spirit (Matthew 3:11)
2:7-9 = the Glorious One (Father)  sends the LORD Almighty (Jesus)
6:12 = Spirit
8:8 = Revelation 2:23
12:10-14 = “they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son” points to the Father’s relationship with Jesus His Son
14:9 = LORD

Key Events:
Chapters = 5
1:8-11, 3:1-5, 4:6, 4:11-14, 7:5, 7:9-11 = justice, mercy and compassion over sacrifice , 8:16-17, 11:4-17, 12:1, 12:10-14, 13:7-9, 14:1-5, 14:6-9, 14:12-15

Major (not all) Prophecies Fulfilled of the Messiah(Jesus):
3:8 = John 17:4
6:12-13 = Hebrews 8:1 
9:9 = Matthew 21:8-10, John 12:12-13, John 5:30, Luke 19:10, Matthew 11:29, and  Matthew 21:6-9
10:4 = Ephesians 2:20
11:4-6 = Matthew 23:1-4, Luke 19:41-44, John 19:13-15
11:7 = Matthew 9:35-36
11:8 = Matthew 23:33, Matthew 27:20
11:9 =  Matthew 13:10-11
11:10-11 = Luke 19:41-44, John 14:7
11:12 = Matthew 26:14-15, Matthew 27:3-5, John 12:45
12:10 = John 19:34-37, John 10:30, John 1:1
13:7 = John 18:11, Mark 14:27, John 14:9, Matthew 26:31-56
14:4 = Acts 1:11-12

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