OUTLINE ZECHARIAH CHAPTER TWO INCREASE AND PROSPERITY TO JERUSALEM V.1-5 THE JEWS ARE CALLED UPON TO HASTEN HOME GOD'S GREAT LOVE AND ZEAL FOR HIS PEOPLE V. 6-9 GOD’S PROMISES INCREASE AND PROSPERITY AND V. 10-13 RESTORATION OF THE JEWS TO THE FAVOR OF GOD

READ: ZECHARIAH 2:1-2 1 I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2 I said, Where are you going? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.

QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 2:1-2 1 I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand. THIS IS ZECHARIAH’S THIRD VISION 519BC? WHAT DID ZECHARIAH SEE? WHO WAS THIS MAN? WHAT DID HE HAVE IN HIS HAND? READ: EZEKIEL 40:1-3

QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 2:1-2 WHAT DID EZEKIEL SEE? READ: EZEKIEL 40:1-3 1 In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was captured, on the very same day the hand of the LORD was upon me; and He took me there. 2 In the visions of God He took me into the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain; on it toward the south was something like the structure of a city. 3 He took me there, and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze. He had a line of flax and a measuring rod in his hand, and he stood in the gateway. (EZEKIEL 40-42)

QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 2:1-2 2 I said, Where are you going? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length. WHAT DID ZECHARIAH ASK HIM? WHY WAS HE GOING TO MEASURE JERUSALEM?

READ: ZECHARIAH 2:3-4 3 There was the angel who talked with me, going out; and another angel was coming out to meet him, 4 He said to him, Run, speak to this young man, saying: Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it.

QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 2:3-4 3 There was the angel who talked with me, going out; and another angel was coming out to meet him, 4 He said to him, Run, speak to this young man, saying: Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it. WHO WAS TALKING TO ZECHARIAH? WHO IS THE OTHER ANGEL SPEAKING TO? WHAT DID HE TELL HIM TO DO? WHO IS THIS YOUNG MAN? WHAT WAS THE MESSAGE?

QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 2:3-4 4 He said to him, Run, speak to this young man, saying: Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it. WHAT WAS THE MESSAGE? WHAT WAS THE CONDITION OF JERUSALEM? READ: NEHEMIAH 1:3; 2:3; 6:15

QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 2:3-4 WHAT WAS THE CONDITION OF JERUSALEM? READ: NEHEMIAH 1:3 3 They said to me, The survivors who are left from the captivity in the province are there in great distress and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire. READ: NEHEMIAH 2:3 3 Nehemiah said to the king, May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' tombs, lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire? READ: NEHEMIAH 6:15 15 The wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days.

READ: ZECHARIAH 2:5-7 5 For I, says the LORD, I will be a wall of fire all around her, and I will be the glory in her midst. 6 Up, up! Flee from the land of the north, says the LORD; for I have spread you abroad like the four winds of heaven, says the LORD. 7 Up, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.

QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 2:5-7 5 For I, says the LORD, I will be a wall of fire all around her, and I will be the glory in her midst. WHAT IS THE LORD GOING TO DO? READ: ISAIAH 26:1 1 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; God will appoint salvation for walls and bulwarks. (NKJ) READ: ISAIAH 60:18 18 Violence shall no longer be heard in your land, neither wasting nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise. (NKJ)

QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 2:5-7 6 Up, up! Flee from the land of the north, says the LORD; for I have spread you abroad like the four winds of heaven, says the LORD. 7 Up, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon. WHO SPREAD THEM TO THE FOUR WINDS? WILL HE BRING THEM BACK? WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT THEM TO DO? READ: ISAIAH 43:5-6 5 Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, and gather you from the west; 6 I will say to the north, Give them up! And to the south, Do not keep them back! Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth-- (NKJ)

QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 2:5-7 WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT THEM TO DO? READ: ISAIAH 48:20 20 Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing, declare, proclaim this, utter it to the end of the earth; say, The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob! (NKJ) READ: ISAIAH 52:11 11 Depart! Depart! Go out from there, touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her, be clean, you who bear the vessels of the LORD. (NKJ)

QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 2:5-7 WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT THEM TO DO? READ: JEREMIAH 50:8 8 Move from the midst of Babylon, go out of the land of the Chaldeans; and be like the rams before the flocks. (NKJ) READ: JEREMIAH 51:6 6 Flee from the midst of Babylon, and every one save his life! Do not be cut off in her iniquity, for this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he shall recompense her. (NKJ) READ: JEREMIAH 51:45 45 My people, go out of the midst of her! And let everyone deliver himself from the fierce anger of the LORD. (NKJ)

READ: ZECHARIAH 2:8-10 8 Thus says the LORD of hosts: He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye. 9 Surely I will shake My hand against them, and they shall become spoil for their servants. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent Me. 10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! For behold, I am coming and I will dwell in your midst, says the LORD.

QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 2:8-10 8 Thus says the LORD of hosts: He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye. WHO IS ME? WHO IS THE APPLE OF HIS EYE? READ: ISAIAH 48:16 16 Come near to Me, hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, I was there. And now the Lord GOD and His Spirit have sent Me. (NKJ)

QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 2:8-10 9 Surely I will shake My hand against them, and they shall become spoil for their servants. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent Me. WHAT WILL HE DO? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM? WHO WILL THEY KNOW HAS SENT HIM?

QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 2:8-10 10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! For behold, I am coming and I will dwell in your midst, says the LORD. WHO ARE THE DAUGHTERS OF ZION? WHY SHOULD THEY SING AND REJOICE?

READ: ZECHARIAH 2:11-13 11 Many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and they shall become My people. I will dwell in your midst. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent Me to you. 12 The LORD will take possession of Judah as His inheritance in the Holy Land, and will again choose Jerusalem. 13 Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD, for He is aroused from His holy habitation! (NKJ)

QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 2:11-13 11 Many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and they shall become My people. I will dwell in your midst. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent Me to you. WHAT ARE THESE MANY NATIONS? READ: MICAH 4:2 2 Many nations shall come and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths. For out of Zion the law shall go forth, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. READ: JEREMIAH 24:7 7 Then I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They shall be My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me with their whole heart. (NKJ)

QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 2:11-13 12 The LORD will take possession of Judah as His inheritance in the Holy Land, and will again choose Jerusalem. WHAT WILL THE LORD TAKE POSSESSION OF? WHO WILL HE CHOOSE? READ: PSALMS 78:67-68 67 He rejected the tent of Joseph, and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim, 68 But chose the tribe of Judah, mount Zion which He loved.

QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 2:11-13 13 Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD, for He is aroused from His holy habitation! (NKJ) WHO SHOULD REMAIN SILENT BEFORE THE LORD? READ: ISAIAH 41:1 1 Keep silence before Me, O coastlands, and let the people renew their strength! Let them come near, then let them speak; let us come near together for judgment. WHERE IS HIS HOLY HABITATION? DEUTERONOMY 26:15 15 Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land which You have given us, just as You swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.