Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

Yesterday we met Haggai, the first of two prophets who are prophesying to the returned

exiles of Judah, and today we met his pal Zachariah, another minor prophet who also

happens to be a priest.

We haven't read through all the prophets yet, but in what we have read so far, we've

gotten a good sampling of different ways God communicates to them and through them.

Sometimes he calls them to preach sermons, sometimes he commands them to do sign acts,

and sometimes he speaks to them via dreams and visions.

Zachariah at least falls into the latter category.

He's a dreams and visions guy.

But first, God starts out by telling Zach how angry he was at the past generations of Israel.

He wants the current generation to know just how much their ancestor sins impacted things,

and he begs them not to walk that same path.

He says those people are gone and even the prophets he sent to warn them are gone, but he's

still here with the same truths and the same message because the truth doesn't die.

He says their ancestors eventually repented while in exile and acknowledged that their

sins deserved punishment.

Then we launch into Zach's first vision.

There will be nine total visions in this book, and he probably had the first eight visions

back to back, maybe even on the same night.

But his visions are among the strangest in Scripture, so buckle up.

Vision one is a bunch of horses.

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