God’s people are being mocked by their enemies and find themselves in captivity in their homes. Is this just? Will there ever be justice?
God convenes his court. The “coastlands,” Israel’s perennial enemy, are on trial and Israel is invited to watch or listen in. God is raising up Cyrus, King of Persia, to judge the nations and the coastlands are next.
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It is with a great sense of relief that the returned exiles heard that God will restore the Temple and establish it in an environment of security and prosperity (1:16-17). But then, in a vision, Zechariah sees a building official with his tape measure, and he is surveying more than the footprint of the Temple. He is mapping out the whole city.
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