Bible Fiber: Zechariah 12
Subscribe to Bible Fiber on Youtube or listen wherever you get your podcasts! In Zechariah 12, the prophet makes a sudden about-face from the gloomy language and depressing outlook of the previous passage, in which God had declared that he no longer pitied the...
Bible Fiber: Zechariah 11
Subscribe to Bible Fiber on Youtube or listen to Bible Fiber wherever you listen to your podcasts! Zechariah 11 is arguably the most enigmatic and gloomy section of the entire book. The chapter’s prelude is a dark poem portraying personified trees wailing over their...
Bible Fiber: Zechariah 10
Bible Fiber is available on Youtube or wherever you listen to your podcasts! Zechariah 9 ends with the promise of agricultural fertility: “Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the young women” (9:17). The guarantee of satiated bellies carries over...
Bible Fiber: Zechariah 9
Subscribe to our Youtube channel or follow Bible Fiber wherever you listen to your podcasts! Biblical scholars divide Zechariah into three units: the vision sequence in Zechariah 1-6; the prophet’s answer to the Bethel delegation in Zechariah 7-8; and eschatological...
Bible Fiber: Zechariah 8
Subscribe to Bible Fiber's Youtube channel or Follow Bible Fiber wherever you listen to your podcasts! Zechariah 8 is a continuation of the prophet’s response to the Bethel delegation’s question about fast days. Their inquiry had provoked a somewhat testy sermon from...
Bible Fiber: Zechariah 7
Subscribe to our Youtube Channel or Follow Bible Fiber wherever you listen to your podcasts! The second section of Zechariah 7 opens with a precise date superscription: “in the fourth year of King Darius” (7:1). Apparently, the book picks up two years after the...
Bible Fiber: Zechariah 6
Subscribe to Bible Fiber on Youtube or Follow Bible Fiber wherever you listen to your podcasts! This week we are reading Zechariah 6. The eighth and final vision concludes with what biblical scholars call a prophetic sign-act, a real-life action by the prophet that...
Bible Fiber: Zechariah 5
Subscribe to Bible Fiber's Youtube Channel or Follow Bible Fiber wherever you listen to your podcasts! This week we are studying Zechariah 5. The Hebrew word hinneh appears frequently in Zechariah’s vision sequence. Almost every time the angelic messenger caught...
Bible Fiber: Zechariah 4
Follow Bible Fiber on Youtube or wherever you listen to your podcasts! Halfway through Zechariah’s vision sequence, it is natural to wonder if Zechariah 4’s constant dreaming is out of line with the rest of the prophets. Certainly, Zechariah seems to be in an altered...
Bible Fiber: Zechariah 3
Follow Bible Fiber wherever you listen to your podcasts or subscribe to your Youtube channel Zechariah 3 contains the prophet’s fourth vision of eight. The end of Zechariah’s third vision segues into the opening scene of his fourth. The prophet was calling for silence...