Zech 1: 1-16

Excerpt:… This prophecy, came three months after Zechariah’s first interlude: it was a revelation that brought the vision of our Adventist ministry, described as horses, to show their premature declaration of Judgment, aka, the 2nd coming of Jesus. Surprisingly, their ministry heaped distress upon the Comforter Who appealed to Jesus for clarification. But, instead, Christ —not Jesus— gave the Spirit the needed words of comfort. In sum, Jesus promised to dismiss the leaders of the equine evangelists so that Zechariah, her symbolic child of travail, would step in their stead to refine the Gospel. He commissioned him, Zechariah, to cry yet to explain the day of —not gentile but— Hebrew restoration. Until now, we have overlooked the glorious day, today, when the Lord will reverse His wrath and extend mercy to those Hebrews whom He called Jerusalem. Zechariah as a man who is long since dead, deepens the conundrum because the Comforter promised to show to him the meaning of the equine evangelists? Obviously then, Zechariah’s vision depicts our prophetic day when the Mustard Seed perfectly unfolds the vision. He is the only one who has identified Jerusalem, the Lord, the Angel of the Lord, and the Lord of Hosts along with the equine evangelists. He therefore, today, is commanded to cry yet. Though we read much of this in the last study, Paulene perfection insists that we delve deeper and reread a snippet. It says: “ 1 In the eighth month… came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah … 2 The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers. 3 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me … 4 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying … Turn ye now from your evil ways … but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD. 5 Your fathers, where are they? … 6 … my words and my statutes … did they not take hold of your fathers? … 7 Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month … came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah … saying, 8 I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse … and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white. 9 … And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be. 10 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth. 11 And they answered the angel of the LORD … and said … all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest. 12 Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem … ? 13 And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words. 14 …So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy … 16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts…” —Zech 1: 1-16. The central point of this truncated segment is that the Lord answered the Angel of the Lord by telling Him, the Comforter, to declare new doctrine. This signifies the identity of the Lord: He is Christ for Christ is the One Who is licensed to convey to the Holy Spirit, doctrine…