Handbook for Bible Students

Zechariah

Key-word, “Jealous;” Key-verse, 8:2.-Zechariah is the prophet of the advent. Eight visions in one night unveil God’s providence and grace toward the elect nation: her foes shall be destroyed, her idols removed, her city and temple restored, and her Messiah revealed. If God’s promises are to be enjoyed, his precepts must be obeyed, the moral law outranking the ceremonial. Then fasts become feasts. Jehovah is jealous for his people: his jealousy demands their purity and destroys their foes. [p. 87] HBS 41.5