Minor Prophets — Zechariah
This prophet, prophesied at the same time as Haggai. “Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem” (Ezra 5:1). This was in the second year of the reign of King Darius.
Prophetically the visions of this man look on to a future day of blessing for the Jewish remnant as well as all Israel. God will judge the Gentile nations that have oppressed them, and there will be blessing unlike anything previously known.
The restoration of the Jewish remnant is in Chapter 12, where we read, “And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn” (Zechariah 12:10). The awakening of Israel as a nation is recorded in the words: “And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends” (Zechariah 13:6).
