By Meredith G. Kline
From the preface: "...[T]he reports that include this publication have been designed to serve rather at once the needs of these preaching on Zechariah's evening visions. extra widely, despite the fact that, our goal has been to domesticate between the entire Lord's humans an appreciation of the biblical-theological method within the exploration of the treasures of God's saving fact within the Scriptures. what's awarded this is then a biblical-theological interpreting of the prophetic visions of Zechariah 1-6. we strive to know the importance of those visions within the mild in their id as a part of the general eschatological drama of the dominion of God from construction to consummation, that eschatological fact on which they, in flip, are themselves a window. although differing a bit in shape from the standard verse-by-verse observation, this biblical-theological learn continues to be offered as a piece of rigorous exegesis, with clean ideas prompt for the translation of a few of the major exegetical puzzles with which the enigmatic yet now not unfathomable symbolism of those visions confronts us.
Featured in the course of the evening visions is a remarkably wealthy revelation of the Messiah. Reflecting that, every one of our chapters is entitled by way of the workplace or redemptive act of Christ that's highlighted within the imaginative and prescient in view. additionally conspicuous is the position of the Spirit on the subject of the messianic challenge, quite in his id because the theophanic Glory, the Glory-Spirit. This Glory of the heavenly presence of the triune God is certainly the dominant truth in Zechariah's visionary global. And vital within the message of the evening visions is the gospel promise that this Glory-Presence is vouchsafed to God's humans, finally in eschatological fullness. for this reason the identify: Glory in Our Midst.
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Its first appearance in Scripture is in Gen 3:8, where it denotes the advent of God for judgment at the Fall of man. A judicial connotation may be present in the following passages, in all of which the Lord is the subject of this verb: Lev 26:12; Deut 23:14; 2 Sam 7:6; and Job 22:14. Used with reference to Enoch (Gen 5:22,24) and Noah (Gen 6:9), it signifies their involvement in the judicial council of the Lord of hosts, the heavenly experience that later characterized the true prophet in Israel.
In light of this usage of hdddr, the requirement that the booths of the Tabernacles festival be made of trees of hdddr apparently had in view their serving as symbolic images of the Glory-Spirit. To the same effect is the stipulation in Lev 23:40 that the wood for the booths be selected from leafy trees, trees of densely interwoven foliage ( db6t). Here again, this time more subtly through the device of paronomasia, a connection is made with the Glory-cloud. For db6t also appears as the plural of db ("dark cloud mass," also a "wood thicket"), which is the term found in Exod 19:9 for the theophanic cloud of Sinai.
9). It is given by the Angel-rider himself. In particular, he identifies the horsemen (v. 10), whose report on their world mission (v. 11) prompts his intercession in behalf of Jerusalem (v. 12). The response of the Lord of hosts to this is then disclosed by the divine Angel to Zechariah through the interpreting angel ( w . 13-17). In the successive steps of this explanatory process each of the elements of the symbolic scene is in turn illuminated: the deep in the present section ( w . 9-11), and then the myrtles in v.