How firm of foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

Welcome to Through the Bible, whether you're fascinated by prophecy or find it, well, just a little overwhelming.

This study in the book of Zechariah offers something for everyone. Our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee,

walks us through the prophet's vision of four chariots, each one the same color as the four horsemen of the apocalypse in Revelation 6. Coincidence? No, probably not. Dr.

McGee helps us connect Zachariah 6 with the coming judgments described in Revelation,

and it's both sobering and powerful. So open your Bible to Zachariah chapter 6, verse 4,

and let's begin with Dr. McGee's brief introduction to God's judgments and his

incredible mercy.

Now, I talked last time about the subject of peace.

That was the thing that would characterize the millennium.

We do not know what peace is today.

Last count, there were 57 wars going on in the

world. Well, that's not a time of peace. They're saying today, peace, peace, when there is no peace,

there will be when Jesus reigns on this earth. And now there's another wonderful characteristic, and that is justice. And justice

is something that men know today very little about. The psalmist in Psalm 89, verse 14,

he writes this, justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne.

Mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

And you'll notice that justice and mercy are put together.

All right?

One of the most prominent words in the Christian vocabulary found in the Bible is the word justice.

However, it does not occur very often in current conservative literature.

When it does occur, it is invariably associated with gloom and doom pronouncements,

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