Josh’s Blog

Zechariah 1:5 (CSB)"Where are your ancestors now? And do the prophets live forever?" God asks a question that lands like a cold hand. Where are your ancestors now? And do the prophets live forever? It is rhetorical, and everyone knows the answer. They are dead. They...

Zechariah 1:4 (CSB)"Do not be like your ancestors; the earlier prophets proclaimed to them: This is what the LORD of Armies says: Turn from your evil ways and your evil deeds. But they did not listen or pay attention to me—this is the LORD's declaration." The builders...

Zechariah 1:3 (CSB)"So tell the people, 'This is what the LORD of Armies says: Return to me—this is the declaration of the LORD of Armies—and I will return to you, says the LORD of Armies.'" Return to Me, and I will return to you. It is easy to read that quickly and...

Zechariah 1:2 (CSB)"The LORD was extremely angry with your ancestors." The hammers were ringing again in Jerusalem. Stones were being set. The temple work had stalled for sixteen years, and after the prophet Haggai preached, it had finally begun again. From the...