Zechariah 1:1,2 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, God has been sore displeased with your fathers.

Zechariah 1:3 Therefore say you to them, This says God, Turn yourself unto me and I will turn unto you.

Zechariah 1:4 Be you not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus says God, Turn you now from your evil ways and from your evil doings. But they did not hear nor hearken unto me, says the Lord.(Deuteronomy 5:29).

They wanted nothing to do with the one and only true loving, compassionate and caring God of the multiverse:.Jeremiah 6:10,15-17. Too bad for those who were so stupid. Many want the easy ride, the entertaining ride, in their avoiding the learning path of right and wrong. They waffle between existence and being entertained.

Zechariah 1:5 Your fathers, where are they and the prophets, do they live for ever?

John 8:53.

Zechariah 1:6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? And they returned and said, Like as God thought to do unto us, according to our ways and according to our doings, so has he dealt with us.(Malachi 3:6: Hebrews 13:8).

The multiversal law of 'one reaps what he or she may have sown' (Luke 5:32) set up before humans were made, is an inexorable law.

Zechariah 1:7 Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of God unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

Zechariah 1:8 I saw by night and behold a man riding upon a red horse and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom and behind him were there red horses, speckled and white.

Zechariah 1:9 Then said I, O God, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will show you what these be.

Zechariah 1:10 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom God has sent to walk to and fro through the Earth.

Zechariah 1:11 And they answered the angel of God that stood among the myrtle trees and said, We have walked to and fro through the Earth and behold, all the Earth sits still and is at rest.

Zechariah 1:13 And God answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.

Zechariah 1:16 Therefore thus says God, I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies. My house shall be built in it and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem. 

Zechariah 1:17 Cry yet, saying, Thus says God, My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad and I shall yet comfort Zion and shall choose Jerusalem.

Zechariah 2:4,5 And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein. For I, God, will be unto her a wall of fire round about and the glory in the midst of her.

Zechariah 2:6 Ho, ho, come forth and flee from the land of the north.(Babylon, whom ancient Israel was always at war with), says God, for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven.

Jeremiah 23:8. And from Barnes Notes: The north country, although its capital and center was Babylon, was the whole Babylonian empire, called 'the North' (Jeremiah 1:13,14; 3:18; 6:1; 23:8) because its invasions always came upon Israel from the north.

Isaiah 52:11.

Zechariah 2:11 And many nations shall be joined to God in that day and shall be my people and I will dwell in the midst of you all. You shall know that God has sent me unto you.

Zechariah 2:12 And God shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land and shall choose Jerusalem again.

Zechariah 3:1 And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of God and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.

The devil is ready always to be one's adversary.

Zechariah 3:2 And God said unto Satan, I rebuke you, O Satan. I have chosen Jerusalem, a firebrand.raked out of the fire?

Ancient Israel and Judah were plucked 'out of the fire' many times:.2Chronicles 36:10. And also those of spiritual Israel today. Who may they be today and where?

Zechariah 3:9 For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, says God and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

Zechariah 3:10 In that day, God says, shall you call every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.

A time of peace:.Micah 4:4; Zechariah 8:5. The time of the real true God's reign on Earth.

Zechariah 4:1,1 And the angel that talked with me came again and waked me as a man that is wakened out of his sleep, And said unto me, What see you? And I said, I have looked and behold a candlestick all of gold with a bowl upon the top of it and it has seven lamps thereon and seven pipes go to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof.

Zechariah 4:3 And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl and the other upon the left side thereof.

Zechariah 4:4,5 So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord? Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Know you not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.

Zechariah 4:6 Then he answered and spoke unto me, saying, This is the word of God unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit.

Note, the real power in the multiverse and our lives is the Holy Spirit of the true God of all life and creation and that's inside you.

Zechariah 4:7-14 Who are you, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it. Moreover the word of God came unto me, saying, The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands shall also finish it and you shall know that God has sent me unto you. For who has despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven. They are the eyes of God, which run to and fro through the whole Earth. Then answered I and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof? And I answered again and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves? And he answered me and said, Know you not what these be? And I said, No, my lord. Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the God of the whole Earth.

Zechariah 5:1-11 Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes and looked and behold a flying roll. And he said unto me, What see you? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits and the breadth thereof ten cubits. Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole Earth. For every one that steals shall be cut off as on this side according to it and every one that swears shall be cut off as on that side according to it. I will bring it forth, said God and it shall enter into the house of the thief and into the house of him that swears falsely by my name and it shall remain in the midst of his house and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof. Then the angel that talked with me went forth and said unto me, Lift up now your eyes and see what is this that goes forth. And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goes forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the Earth. And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead and this is a woman that sits in the midst of the ephah. And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof. Then lifted I up mine eyes and looked and behold, there came out two women and the wind was in their wings, for they had wings like the wings of a stork and they lifted up the ephah between the Earth and heaven. Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah? And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar.(ancient name for the area later known as Babylon and Chaldea).and it shall be established and set there upon her own base.
 

....continues to Chapters 6-9