This weeks bible study turns to Zechariah 11. It is unclear when this part was written with respect to the rest of Zechariah, but it looks to me to be part of the prophesy that starts in Zechariah 8.
This passage is once again rich in figurative language that makes it …

Ask the Lord for rain in the springtime; it is the Lord who makes the storm clouds.
Zechariah 10: 1
A verse I feel an automatic urge to memorise and keep close. What an important truth for us to take hold of in life. I often advise people to memorise …

I am immediately struck by the combination of fulfilled prophecy and that which is yet to come. I wonder how Zechariah received a word of prophecy like this. Is it all a straight prophetic word or does it come from a flowing combination of his feelings, God’s general …