Zechariah for Skeptics
Zechariah is as bizarre as it is cruel. Here are the highlights.
- Zechariah's conversation with an angel, a man in a myrtle tree, some horses of different colors, and God. Chapters 1 - 6.
- God has seven eyes that "run to and fro through the whole earth." 4:10
- Zechariah sees a 30 foot flying scroll that burns down the houses of thieves and liars. 5:1-4
- God will "set all men one against his neighbor." 8:10
- "Thus saith the LORD of hosts ... ten men ... shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew." 8:23
- Someday we'll see God flying over us with his lightning-like arrows. He'll be blowing his trumpet and sending whirlwinds down south. 9:14
- God "will hiss for them." 10:8
- "He shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up." 10:11
- "I will no more pity ... saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand ... And I will feed the flock of slaughter." 11:6-7
- God will force everyone to eat "the flesh of another." 11:9
- He will open his eyes and smite "every rider with madness ... and every horse ... with blindness." 12:4
- A prophet must be killed by his own parents by "thrusting him through when he prophesieth." 13:3
- God will "go forth and fight" with "his feet" on the mount of Olives. 14:3
- On the day of the Lord, the mount of Olives will be split in two and half the mountain will be removed. 14:4
- God will smite the people with plagues that will cause their flesh, eyes, and tongues to rot away. 14:12
- He will make everyone fight and kill his or her neighbor. 14:13
- He sends his plagues on animals too. 14:15
- Whoever survives all these plagues and slaughters must worship God. 14:16
