The Eighth and Ninth Vision of Zechariah

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VISION #8

Chapter 6 verses 1 thru 8 record the vision of the "Four Chariots". These chariots appeared from, what looked like, two mountains of brass. The first chariot was pulled by red horses, the second by black ones, the third by white horses and the fourth by "dappled grays", (mixed black and white). When Zechariah asked who they were, he was told that they were four heavenly spirits who were going out to do the Lord's work. The chariot pulled by the black horse would go north and the one pulled by the white horse would follow. The dappled grays would go south. The one pulled by the red horse would patrol back and forth across the earth.

Then the Lord said to Zechariah, "The ones that went north have executed my judgment there and now my anger is quieted. All of these chariots were instruments of God's Providence. The black represented judgments and the white horses represented deliverances, when they completed their job, God's anger was quieted. The dappled grays went back and forth across the earth executing their judgments and deliverances and if we go back and forth across the earth we will find the Providence of God "mixed" of black and white.

VISION #9

Chapter 6 verses 9 thru 15 records the "symbolic crowning" of Joshua, the High Priest, which was Jesus' Hebrew name, this being a vision of the Second Coming of Christ. There were two "types of Christ" in the Old Testament, both were named Joshua. Joshua, who replaced Moses as the "captain" of the Israelites and Joshua, the High Priest. Both were symbolic of the work of Christ, leader and intermediary. It is interesting to note that God was at work in the hearts of these two men that could have been very envious of the coronation of Zerubbabel, who was Governor of Judah and the King of Persia, both of whom could have looked on the crowning of Joshua as the setting up of a rival to their jurisdiction. Certainly this kind of envy was evident in Herod and the Pharisees in the coming of Christ the first time.

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