Welcome to Part 2 of Dr. Tony Sweat, the books of Haggai and Zechariah.

Tony, how do you want to approach Zechariah?

So the comfolem email has delineated chapters 1 to 3 and 7 to 14.

But if you want just a big picture overview, this is right out of the Bible dictionary.

The book of Zechariah has two divisions.

Zechariah 1 to 8, a series of visions sketching the future of the people of God, and Zechariah 9 to 14,

prophecies about the Messiah and events preceding his second coming end of quote.

That's a good division.

I might give another breakdown to it.

Again, remember that Zechariah is a companion to Haggai.

They're preaching at the same time as a matter of fact.

Zechariah 1,1 specifically says that he's preaching two months after Haggai starts to prophesy.

So they literally are preaching at the same time.

So take all the context we just talked about with Haggai and put it on Zechariah as we're studying that.

But I might break it down a little bit more.

In that Zechariah 1 to 6, he's going to have eight dreams.

And these eight dreams are somewhat bizarre.

A lot of them are.

But they're symbolic dreams.

They seem to be revelatory dreams.

I'm going to paraphrase a little bit of how these eight dreams are organized.

There's a great little video from the Bible project that's only like five minutes long that summarizes the book of Zechariah

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