Explaining The Book

Category: Minor Prophets

The Minor Prophets call Israel to repentance, warn of judgment, and promise restoration through God’s faithfulness. They highlight God’s justice, mercy, and sovereign rule over nations. Each book points to Christ, the ultimate Redeemer and King, who fulfills God’s covenant promises and brings salvation to His people.

  • Zechariah 12 Commentary

    Zechariah 12 Commentary: Let’s turn our attention to the Old Testament minor prophet Zechariah… and the 12th chapter of his prophecies. Zechariah 12. We’re entering the last main section of this book today as chapters 12-14 comprise one main section of this book. So, let’s read Zechariah 12 and then attempt to explain what it…

    Zechariah 12 Commentary
  • Zechariah 11 Explained Verses 12-17

    Zechariah 11 Explained Verses 12-17 | We’ll be considering Zechariah 11 today. Now, last time we studied up to verse 11 of this chapter and so today we’ll continue in verse 12 and study to the end of the chapter. So, what we saw in those first 11 verses was the Lord putting Zechariah into…

    Zechariah 11 Explained Verses 12-17
  • Zechariah 11 Commentary Verses 1-11

    Zechariah 11 Commentary verses 1-11: Let’s turn our attention to Zechariah 11. We made it all the way through the 10th chapter of this book last time. And yet in some ways I think that the chapter break at the end of Zechariah 10:12 is minorly unfortunate. Because it seems to me that the Lord…

    Zechariah 11 Commentary Verses 1-11
  • Zechariah 10 Meaning

    Zechariah 10 Meaning: Let’s turn our attention to Zechariah 10. Last time we finished studying the 9th chapter of this book in which we’re brought from the time of Alexander the Great in the 300s BC… to Jesus’ first coming about 300 years later… all the way to the Millennium which is at some future…

    Zechariah 10 Meaning
  • Zechariah 9 Verse 9

    So, this chapter began with an acknowledgement that at some time in the future, the eyes of everyone would be toward the Lord. And then in verse 8 the Lord ends that verse with this enigmatic statement, “For now have I seen with my eyes…” Well, what has he seen? What has the Lord looked…

    Zechariah 9 Verse 9
  • Zechariah 9 Commentary Verses 9-17

    Zechariah 9 Commentary Verses 9-17: Let’s turn our attention to Zechariah 9. I’d like us to read the ninth chapter of Zechariah in its entirety. [Read Zec 9…] So, this chapter began with an acknowledgement that at some time in the future, the eyes of everyone would be toward the Lord. And then in verse…

    Zechariah 9 Commentary Verses 9-17
  • Zechariah 9 Commentary Verses 1-8

    Let’s turn our attention to the ninth chapter of the book of Zechariah. This book started out with the Lord offering to turn once again to the exile who had returned from Babylon. If they would turn to him, he promised that he would also turn to them. And it turns out that they did…

    Zechariah 9 Commentary Verses 1-8