Welcome to Enjoying the Journey with Evangelist Scott Pauli.

Today we are on a journey through Scripture.

We hope you'll join us as we make 66 stops through each book of the Word of God.

The minor prophets, for the most part, are fairly brief. That's why they are referred to as minor prophets.

And yet, the prophet we come to today is the longest of the minor prophets. His name is Zachariot.

His name actually means the one Jehovah remembers. Aren't you glad God has promised never to forget you. He remembers you today. I hope you

will remember him. The Bible says in Zechariah chapter 1, verse 1, that Zechariah was the son of a man named

Barakai who was the son of Edo. Now it's interesting, but if you'll look at the meaning of each of

those three names, Zachariah means the one Jehovah remembers, Barakai means Jehovah blesses, and Ido means appointed time.

If you put the names together, it means Jehovah remembers to bless in his appointed time.

And indeed he does.

Zachariah talks about such a season. He was a prophet and a priest

who started his ministry as a very young man. And you'll remember that he is a contemporary of Haggai,

who we've just studied. And both of these men concentrated on the Lord's blessing on the new temple.

Chapters 1 through 8 of this book were written during the work on the temple,

and then chapters 9 through 14 were written after its completion.

And so he brings us through this rebuilding process,

this restoration that is going on as the people come back

and the temple is rebuilt after the Babylonian captivity.

Now, as a contemporary of Haggai, though he's slightly younger, he focuses on the same goal,

but they're different. You might say it this way. Haggai was the realist.

Zachariah was the visionary. Haggai in many ways focused on the material aspects of building

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