UNSEEN BATTLE SERIES · BIBLE CARD 38 OF 39
Zechariah
Zekharyah — “YHWH remembers”
MINOR PROPHETS
- Author / Era
- Zechariah · approx. 520–480 BC, after the exile
- Setting
- Jerusalem during the temple rebuild. Eight night visions. Then the most messianic small book in the Bible.
- Key Figures
- Zechariah, Joshua the high priest, Zerubbabel, the coming King
- Watch For
- Pierced (12:10), thirty pieces of silver (11:12–13), riding a donkey (9:9), feet on the Mount of Olives (14:4) — it is all here.
- Connects To
- Matthew 21:5 · Matthew 27:9 · John 19:37 · Acts 1:11–12
Key Verse
“They shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son.”— Zechariah 12:10
Points to Christ: The Pierced King
Zechariah names the donkey, the silver, the wounds, and the return to the Mount of Olives.
For the Fire Pit
Zechariah names details of Calvary that no one could have invented. The donkey. The thirty pieces. The pierced one. Five hundred years before the cross.
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