The Word That Always Catches Up

The Word That Always Catches Up

Zechariah 1:6 (CSB)”But didn’t my words and my statutes that I commanded my servants the prophets overtake your ancestors?” God asks whether His word overtook the generations before them, and the answer is written in the rubble of Jerusalem. It did....
The Word That Always Catches Up

The Clock You Don’t Control

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...
The Word That Always Catches Up

The Pattern You Don’t Pass On

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...
The Word That Always Catches Up

Return, and He Will Return

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...
The Word That Always Catches Up

A God Who Can Be Angry

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....
The Word That Always Catches Up

The Eye That Never Turns Away

John 2:19 (CSB)”Jesus answered, ‘Destroy this temple, and I will raise it up in three days.'” Darius sealed his decree with a warning. Any man who interfered with the house of God would be impaled on a beam torn from his own home, and may the God who...