Shabbat Shalom! Please turn with me to the prophet Zechariah, chapter 6 today. The last vision that we find here in the prophecy of Zechariah is found in the sixth chapter. This is the eighth vision. Zechariah received this vision in verses 1 to 8. And then, immediately following the vision in verses 9 to 15 of this chapter, we have a summary of all those eight visions that have been given to the prophet Zechariah by the Lord himself. I'm going to read these fifteen verses, and please follow me. We begin with verse 1. And I turned, and I lifted up mine eyes, and I looked, and behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains.

And the mountains were mountains of brass. In the first chariot were red horses, and in the second chariot black horses, and in the third chariot white horses, and in the fourth chariot grizzled and bay horses. Then I answered, and said unto the angel that talked with me, "What are these, my Lord?" And the angel answered and said unto me, "These are the four spirits of the heavens which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth. The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country. And the white go forth after them. And the grizzled go forth towards the south country.

And the bay went forth and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth." And he said, "Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth." So they walked to and fro through the earth. Then cried he upon me, and spake unto me, saying, "Behold, these that go towards the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country." And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, "Take of them of the captivity, even of Cheldai, of Tuviah, and of Gedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Yehoshiah ben Tsephaniah.

Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the heads of Joshua, the son of Yotzedek, the high priest." And speak unto them, saying, "Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, all the men whose name is the branch, and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord. Even he shall build the temple of the Lord, and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne. And he shall be a priest upon his throne, and the council of peace shall be between them both. And the crowns shall be to Chelem, and to Tuviah, and to Yedaiah, and to Chen, the son of Tsephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of the Lord.

And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the Lord, and ye shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God." I conclude with verse 15 here of this chapter. I'm always amazed when I'm studying these passages, how much in the ministry of the Lord to his servants, including Zechariah, as one of the prophets of Israel, how much food of encouragement there is for the believers at that time, the nation of Israel, and for you and I as well today, in these passages, in these visions.

Now, as you know, Zechariah received eight visions. This is the final one in this prophecy of Zechariah. In fact, most Bible teachers teach that there are eight visions. Others suggest that there are ten visions. But we have looked in our study and we have concluded that there are eight visions that Zechariah received. And the last vision is called really the vision of the four chariots. And then, in addition to that, we have the symbolic act of Zechariah to summarize, from verse 9 to verse 15, all these visions that the Lord had given this prophet of Israel. We are still here in 520 BC. And Zechariah is now getting the final vision.

And you notice, as we began in the reading, notice verse 1: And he lifted up mine eyes, and he looked, and he sees something. Again, I want to emphasize that this is not a dream. It is a vision. All these visions happen in the very same day. In the time where Zechariah was before the Lord, as we read it in chapter 1, it was the eight months in the second years of Darius came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah, the son of Berechkaia. He sees now this final vision. From here on, the Lord is going to begin to speak with him directly, no longer through visions.

And here it is a very interesting vision, because we learn from this vision that there is a message not only to Israel historically, as we had it in the previous chapter, that God is going to remove sin from among the nation of Israel. This time, in this final vision, we have the truth concerning God removing sin from the nations of the world. In fact, beloved brothers and sisters, what we learned from the last vision is what the angels of God have done. In the first vision, they came before the angel of the Lord as they were walking to and fro throughout the land. Presented before him the situation that existed in the history of Israel.

How the nations of the world have afflicted the nation of Israel. But in this vision, they are not longer coming to the Messiah, to God, and presenting before him the problems. Now they are sent out to do his bidding, to do his activity, and to deal with those that need to be judged by the Lord himself. So, look at this interesting vision in these chapters. First of all, we begin in verse 1, that Zechariah is lifting up his eyes, and he sees, it says in verse 1b, he sees chariots. That's the first thing that he sees. But those chariots comes out from between two mountains, as it says here in verse 1.

And the mountains were the mountains of brass. Now many who will teach this passage, they will tell you that these two mountains, which are seen here, were mountains of brass, represent to us two things. Number one, there's two mountains representing in the land of Israel. Because remember, Zechariah was already in the land of Israel. He sees visibly those two mountains representing those very important mountains in biblical history. One is Mount Moriah, or Mount Moriah, as we would know it. And the second mountain is the Mount of Olives. In between these two mountains, there is a valley. This valley called the Valley of Kidron. It is interesting that many times when Yeshua taught in the temple in Jerusalem, which was on Mount Moriah, he went out of the temple, went down to the valley, and then went up to Mount Olives.

They are very close to each other. You can literally see them near you, very close, as you visit the land of Israel. And in between, there is a valley that is called the Valley of Kidron. Now, it's not coincident here that Zechariah sees those two mountains of brass. Mountains are not made out of brass. But in the Bible, in Scripture, brass, in Hebrew we call it Nechoshet. Nechoshet was used in biblical time to build in the tabernacle two articles. Number one, the brazen altar, where the sacrifices have been consumed by God. And the laver, which was used for the priests to wash their hands and to cleanse themselves before they are doing a ministry unto the Lord.

So what we really see here, beloved brothers and sisters, we see a scene in verse one of these great, huge mountains. And these mountains are made out of brass, speaks of a coming judgment of the Lord. In fact, I want you just for a moment to look with me at the prophet Joel in Joel chapter three. And you will notice that in a place that is called the Valley of Yehoshaphat, which is really linked and connected with the Kidron Valley. Joel wrote about 800 BC, long before Zechariah wrote his prophecy in about 520 BC and on. We read Joel chapter three and verse one. For behold, in those days and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah in Jerusalem.

Listen to these beloved brothers and sisters. Verse two, I will also gather all nations and I will bring them down into the valley of Yehoshaphat. And I will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations and parted my land. And they have cast for lots my people and have given a boy for an harlot and they sold a girl for wine that they might drink. If you just go a little bit further down to verse 12. Let the heathen be wakened and come up to the valley of Yehoshaphat. For there I will sit and judge all the heathen round about.

And again, it is very interesting because the Hebrew name Yehoshaphat comes from two Hebrew words, Yehovah, Jehovah. Shaphat is judging. In fact, the place where God is going to judge the nations in the future day at the end of the tribulation will be in that very same area in between the two mountains. How Moriah, Mount Moriah and Mount Olives, where there is the valley of Kidron linked to the valley of Yehoshaphat, where Jehovah will gather the nations to judge them because of how they have dealt. First of all, with the people of Israel and obviously with God himself and with his anointed, the Messiah. God had promised that he is going to judge not only his people as we had in chapter 5, but now this time to judge the nations of the world.

The brass represents the fiery judgment of God as it was indeed on the brazen altar. Let me just remind you that the brazen altar was made out of brass. The sacrifice was laid there. And every time a lamb, a ram was laid upon the altar, the consuming fire of God judged the sacrifice. And when the sacrifice was judged, then the Israeli were delivered out of the judgment that he deserved. The judgment on the altar produced a forgiveness for those that have accepted the bloodshed of the sacrifice which were laid upon the altar. So in biblical time, brass always represents judgment, represents the consuming judgment. Also notice that the word chariots here is mentioned.

You remember in chapter 1, when Zechariah saw the first vision, we only have the horses and their colors are mentioned, but we don't have the word chariots mentioned. Now this is also tremendously interesting. Do you remember when Elijah was taken up by the chariots of fire into heaven? Without death into the presence of God. Now I always wondered, what are those chariots? It is so beautiful to see from the Bible that in Psalm 68 and verse 17, we have the interpretation of the chariots of God. Where the psalmist says, in this case it was David, the king of Israel, the psalmist of Israel, and he said the chariots of God are twenty thousands, even thousands of his angels, of angels, and the Lord is among them as in Sinai in the holy place.

The chariots of God is among them as in the holy place. The chariots of God are thousands, as it says here, twenty thousand, even thousands of angels. Really, this expression of the chariots of God speaks to us volume of the angelic realm and the angelic being who are serving God, who are ministering spirits according to Hebrews chapter 1. They do the bidding of the Lord, they are serving him, and they are ministering for God's people on behalf of the people of God. And this is precious to see here, that now Zechariah sees these chariots coming out from between those two mountains, and the scripture says very clearly, and the mountains were mountains of brass, to emphasize the judgment of God.

And so now we find out in this vision, he continues in verse 2 and 3, and he gives us now what kind of chariots and the colors that the chariots had. Very interesting, he sees now the colors of those horses that were leading those chariots. He says the first one, there were red horses, in the second one there were black horses, in the third chariot there were white horses, and in the fourth chariot there were grizzled and bay horses. The second one was red horses, the second one was black horses, the second one was black horses, the third one was white horses, and the fourth one was red horses.

But they were amutsim, they were strong horses. And in what we really see here, that the chariots being led by those horses, and these, what we really have, servants of God, that are there ready to do the bidding of God, and they are ready to pronounce the judgment upon the nations of this world. Now remember, brothers and sisters, that in the previous chapter, we saw that flying scroll, and there was a judgment upon Israel. Israel needed to be delivered from sin, so God can use them for the future day. Now, what he's doing, he's dealing with the nations of the world. So, verses 4 to 8, the angel of the Lord explained to Zechariah the vision.

Now again, if you would have been there, and I'll be there, and we see this vision, we will not know. What does it mean? We'll ask the question, and here Zechariah does. He answered and he said unto the angel of God, he said to him, "What are these, my Lord?" Tell me, my Lord, what are these? He wanted to know the meaning of this particular vision. Now, it is not easy to understand this, because in the next verses 5, 6, 7, and 8, the angel now give him an answer. And the answer is not so clear, and we really need the help of the Lord to understand it. He began in verse 5, first of all, the angel give him the answer that those four chariots are the four winds of heaven.

He says in verse 5, "And the angel answered, and he said unto me, these are the four winds," or the four spirits, it says in the King James, "the four winds of the heavens which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth." Those four chariots that you see, apparently, we had it in the first vision, those angels that were riding on those horses that we read in the first vision in chapter 1, verse 7 on, they came and they told the angel of the Lord what is the condition that prevailed upon the face of this earth. But this time, they are not presenting before him the problem.

This time, it shows to us that there are four spirits of the heavens which go forth from standing before the Lord. They are going out to do his biddings. In Hebrew, the same word for spirit is ruach, and for wind is ruach. For the Holy Spirit, the word is ruach, it's the same Hebrew word. Here it's in plural, the four spirits of the heavens which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth. Apparently, as we know very well, we read Revelation chapter 6 in our reading earlier, And we notice that in the beginning of the tribulation period, there will be these four horses that we read of them in Revelation chapter 6.

And those four horses have the very same colors that we have here in this passage. But it suggests to us that the time have arrived when the Lord will send forth his ministering spirit. He will send forth his agents, if you will. And he will bring about the discipline act upon the nations of this world. They stand before him, and now they are going out to do his bidding. We have a very similar need for us as believers today. If we are going to serve the Lord, we first have to stand before the Lord to be in his presence, to enjoy fellowship with him, and then he can send us to do his bidding.

Here, those four winds of the heavens which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth. So here he is telling us in verse 5, the answer to who those four chariots are, or what they are. They are those agents who are ready to do the bidding of the Lord in this world in the coming day. So, we continue here in verse 6 and 7, and we find here the direction. Where do they go? And you notice here, it tells us, first of all, the black and the white going northwards. Verse 6, he says, the black horses, which are therein, go forth to the north country. That is Babylon.

The far north, the north country, speaking about Babel. The place where we just, at the end of chapter 5, we know that it is the place that is called the land of Shinar. And in our Bible class, even we pointed out last night, that he speaks about confusion. In Hebrew, to confound, to confuse. It is the first time when the tower was built, Genesis chapter 11, and God had confounded the language of all those people at that time. And there was confusion began. It was Nimrod who began to rebel against God right there in that city. And it is all the way through the end of the age, at the end of the tribulation, where Babylon is ultimately going to be destroyed.

He continues in verse 6. And then he says, and the grizzled went forth towards the south country. And the south country, in Hebrew, it is called Teyman. El Teyman. Every time when you talk north, east, west, and south, it is always in relation to the land of Israel. North of Israel will be Babel. South of Israel will be Egypt. And again, beloved brothers and sisters, we know very well that Egypt had been throughout the ages representing the world and its ways. And God said to Israel, don't go down to the land of Egypt. Egypt in the south is that which the Lord did not want his people to go there.

It was out of Egypt when Israel came out into liberty, from bondage into liberty on the way to the promised land. So we find out the north and the south for some reason. I don't know why. We don't hear about east and west here. The west will be the Mediterranean. The east will be what present day Jordan and Petra area with the mountains and so on. We don't hear here about it. But what we have here is the north and the south. Babel and the land of Egypt. And so we find out now in verse 7 about the next one. We don't hear anything about the red horse for one reason or another.

But he says the bay in verse 7. These are the strong one. Went forth and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth. And he said, get you hence. Walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro throughout the earth. In fact, he's telling to these horses representing his agents, his angels who are there to do his bidding. He said another three times this expression to walk to and fro. That means that they would walk throughout the lands of the world. Throughout this earth. And they will do his bidding all throughout the lands of this world. So you can see it is an interesting vision.

And it's maybe hard to understand this. But it is a vision that speaks of judgment in the brass. They are coming from in between the two mountains. Moriah and Zetim. And they are coming right at the valley of Yeroshaphat. That the day coming where God is going to judge the nations of the world. And of course, verse 8. It tells us what the angels have been proclaiming. That God's command was already enacted. Already. God had been appeased with some of the direction that he sent these servants. Because it says in verse 8. Then cried he upon me. And he spake unto me. And he says, Behold, these that go towards the north.

Bavele. The north country. Have quieted my spirit in the north country. In other words, they pacified God's wrath in relation to the land of Bavele. In other words, God already shows us that he had been appeased, if you will. Because now his wrath and judgment is starting to flow. It's starting to be accomplished. And as far as this verse tells us. That God says that in the north country. It quieted my spirit in the north country. As he says here in verse 8 of this chapter. So this is interesting. Very difficult vision. Perhaps for us to understand. And I'm saying this, what I've said. Because many Bible teachers come up with this conclusion.

Concerning the four chariots. And the four colored horses. They were leading those chariots. And it speaks to us of the coming judgment of God upon the face of this world. Now I turn to Hebrews chapter 1. He's speaking about the angels. And the angels often in the Bible are called to be ministering spirits. They are servants of God. Their responsibility is to do their bidding. And when the writer to the Hebrews speaking about the Messiah. He says in verse 4. Being made so much better than the angels. This is Yeshua. He's so greater than the angels. As he has by inheritance and obtained a more excellent name than they.

For unto which of the angels. Said he any time thou art my son. This day have I begotten thee. And again I will be to him a father. And he shall be to me a son. And again when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world. He saith and let all the angels of God worship him. Not only that you and I are called to worship the Messiah Yeshua. But even the angels of God who are servants of this blessed Lord and Savior. They are the one that is said to us in the Bible. In the Bible it teaches us that let all the angels of God worship him and serve him.

And verse 7 said. And of the angels he saith. Who make his angels spirits. And his ministers a flame of fire. In other words. In other words. The angels service for the Lord. Are to be used. They're using the angels as his servants. Sometime he used them as his servants to bring blessings for the people of God. But sometime we see in the Bible that he uses the angels as a ministering spirits. As it says here. As having the flame of fire. They are the one who do his bidding. You remember when we read Revelation chapter 6. During the tribulation period. That those four horses that we see here.

Are the judgment of God one by one. Using his very angelic realm to judge this world. In righteousness in the tribulation period. Because they are carrying out the service of God in this world in which we live in. So the first eight verses we see the vision of the four chariots. Led by various horses with various colors. And very strong. And they are carrying out his bidding in this world. So now that he finished this last eight vision. In the next verses of this chapter. He's summing all these visions together. But look beloved brothers and sisters. He's calling Zechariah. To perform a symbolic act. And this act will serve as a symbol.

For Judah. And for the rest of the nations of Israel. And now again. I'm reading from verse nine. Again. You notice that. It's not a vision. Zechariah doesn't see. As it's mentioned in verse one. I lifted up my eyes. And I looked and behold. No. This time. The word of the Lord come directly to Zechariah. It says in verse nine. And the word of the Lord came unto me. Saying. God now. Audibly. Somehow. Spoke to his servant. Zechariah. So now. He. Expect from him. To do something. In the next verses. He's giving him now. The necessity. To do some symbolic act here. To show him.

What's the great lesson. Of all these eight visions. So look at this. First of all. In verses 10 and 11. The act itself. And in verse 12 to 15. The lesson. That is a result. Of the act. That Zechariah. Was called. To do. So he began. In verse 10. Take. Of them. Of the captivity. Even of. Cheldai. And Tuviyah. And of. Yedaya. Which are come. From Babel. From Babylon. And come thou. In the same day. And go into the house. Of Yehoshiah. The son. Of Zechariah. The son. Of Zechariah. There are certain men. Three men. In this case. The first one. Is Cheldai. The second one. Is Tuviyah. The third one.

Is Yedaya. You take. Those three men. They just came. From Babel. You take. Them. And you. Go along. With them. And go. See them. Place. In the house. Of a man. By the name. Of Yehoshiah. The son. Of Zechariah. You know. The Hebrew names. Have meanings. In biblical time. When you gave. A name. To a son. Or to a daughter. There was meaning. In those names. For example. The name. Tuviyah. Means. The goodness. Of Jehovah. Tov. Yad. Jehovah. Is good. Yedaya. Is Yadah. Ya. Yadah. Knows. He knows. Everything. That Israel. Has experienced. And the world. Is going through. And so on. In other words. Here.

He is going to present. Before. Zechariah. The Messiah. Who is going to come. In the future day. To restore Israel. And to finally. Establish. The kingdom. That is going to come. There. So many. Beautiful. The names. There's so many meaning. That we have here. In these verses. And. They came from. The captivity. Apparently. They came later. Because the rest. Of the Jewish people. Were already. At least. 15 years. In Judea. They stopped. To build the temple. In Judea. They have been disturbed. By the neighbors. Around. Namely. Really. The Samaritan. The Shomonim. So now. There were other men. Coming from Babylon. With some. Additional. Gifts. For the building.

Of the temple. Yerushalayim. So Zechariah. Was called. To perform. A symbolic act. By taking. Those three men. Going. With them. To the house. Of. The son. Of. Of. Of. Of. The son. Of. Of. Of. The. High Priest. Now. Apparently. If you. See. Here. In the text. The. Silver. And. The gold. That he is. To take. Was brought. By. Them. Notice. Verse 10. Take. Of. Them. Of. The. Captivity. So they. Brought. With. Them. They. Brought. With. Them. Silver. They. Brought. With. Them. Gold. From. Bavell. The. Jewish. Community. In. Bavell. By. That. Time. Became. Pretty. Well. To.

in Jerusalem so they brought with them silver and gold in order to use it for the temple in Jerusalem and those three men that brought the silver and gold the chariah is to take it from them make an act by literally taking on them but not only to take the silver and the gold but to make crowns out of the silver and gold the Hebrew word for crowns is the word atahot in other words to make crowns more than one apparently it's a plural and to place the crowns upon the head of Joshua the high priest now immediately we have a problem here why because Joshua was not a king he was a priest he

was from the tribe of Levi you read it in book of Ezra and you remember for a priest you don't put a crown on a priest you put a mitre and the mitre says holiness unto the Lord because the priest entered into the presence of God and he's coming out of the presence of God ministering to God ministering to the people of Israel but here Zechariah is called to take those crowns and not to put it on anyone else except the priest himself but there is a problem because in the law that God had given our nation Israel it is only the king who was to get the crown and the priest is to get

the mitre you never have in the bible in biblical accounting before the messiah enter into this world we only hear under the law that it is the tribe of Levi will have the priesthood the tribe of Judah Judah will be the kingly tribe in fact just turn back to Genesis chapter 49 remember Yaakov was blessing his children before he died and Yaakov said concerning the tribe of Judah he says in verse 10 the scepter shall not depart from Judah and the lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh is come and unto him shall be the gathering of the nation the scepter he represents that which a king would hold as he is functioning in his

kingly order in Isaiah we read it a shoot shall come out of the stem of Jesse the messiah when he came he was the promised messiah he was from the tribe of Judah he was not from the tribe of Levi but Zechariah is now called to take this atarot this crown and to set it on the head of Joshua who was not a king but he was a priest and if it is in accordance with the Levitical order the priest can never function as a king and a king can never function as a priest every time a king in biblical history of our own people have ever went and offer sacrifices he was judged by

God it was not the place of the tribe of Judah to function in a priestly order and fashion it was only was given to the tribe of Levi and of course Joshua was from the tribe of Levi you can read it in Ezra chapter 3 that he was a Levite from the priestly tribes of Israel but there is a beautiful lesson that we learn here from these verses because we learn something that is very very very important here in verse 11 that he is now giving in the symbolic act that he does he really pointing out to the future messiah that is going to come for the nation of Israel you see beloved brothers and

sisters that when our Lord Jesus the messiah was born into this world physically speaking he was born to the tribe of Judah but as we know it from the Bible that Yeshua is not only a king that was to come the king of the Jews but he was also called in the Bible the great high priest that today he is already functioning as a priest for us for you and I sitting at the right hand of the father lifting up holy hand interceding on behalf of his people the people of God and he hasn't yet became the king of Israel because it is something that he is going to do in the coming days in

the future day in fact the Bible teaches us that Yeshua Jesus the messiah was a prophet in his life he is a priest in his resurrection and ascension and he will be a king in his second coming the king of Israel the king of the Jews if you will notice from the Jews if you will notice from the Bible that all these three offices were the servants who serve in this faction had to be anointed it was Elijah who anointed one to be the prophet of Israel in the book of kings we read about him and it was Samuel who was called to anoint David in first Samuel chapter 16 as the king of Israel

and it was Moshe who was to anoint Aaron as the priest of the nation of Israel so all these three offices were distinct and yet every one of them needed to be anointed if he is to minister in this office but never to do the two at the same time specifically not the king and the priest at the same time but what we learn here is a great lesson because here he is now going to show us and to show Zechariah to show the people of Israel that there is a coming day when one will come that he is going to be Israel's king but also he is at the same time is Israel this

great high priest who is the only one who can be both the king and priest at the same time but as a priest he could never be according to the Levitical order he could only be a priest according to what is called in the scripture after the order of Malki Tzedek if I am to explain this correctly and if you remember there is a war between four kings against five kings in the time of Abraham our father and we find out that when the war was over that in chapter 14 of the book of Genesis it says in verse 17 the king of Sodom went out to meet him to meet Avram and after his

return from the slaughter of Keldaomer and of the kings that were with him at the valley of Sheva which is the king's dale and then we find out as the king of Sodom come to meet Abraham look what we read and Malki Tzedek king of Shalem brought forth bread and wine and he was a priest of the most high God now here's a man that his name is Malki Tzedek the meaning of the name Malki Tzedek means the king of righteousness and it says here then verse 18 that he was a king of Shalem Shalem was long before Israel Jerusalem became the capital city of the nation of Israel we find already there a priest

king appear before Abraham and presenting himself to this great man to the servant of Jehovah by the name of Avraham and we find here in verse 18 that he is not only a king of Shalem but now we find that he was a priest of the most high God his name was Malki Tzedek he was both a king and he was also a priest and when we think about this that Abraham immediately gave him tithing of all that he had you see that Abraham recognized Malki Tzedek as the king priest that he himself in a sense gave him tithing of all that he had he recognized the uniqueness of this man Malki Tzedek and I

remember years ago when we were studying Genesis chapter 14 the Bible never tell us where Malki Tzedek came from never tells us how he died it's like a scene where he appears and disappears he is appearing doing his act doing the dealing with Avram and then he disappeared we don't know his beginning we don't know his parents we don't know his heritage we don't know his background we don't know where he died how he died where he's buried nothing Malki Tzedek became a picture and a type of the Messiah himself who is both king and a priest at the same time even though he is not functioning at the same time in this office but

he is a king and a priest of the most high God that's what we read here in Genesis chapter 14 and so we see that he became a type and how to connect it together in Psalm 110 prophetically we find out about the Messiah in verse 1 we read the Lord said unto my Lord sit down on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool the Lord shall send the road of thy strength out of Zion rule thou in the midst of thine enemies thy people shall be willing in the days of thy power in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning thou has the dew of thy youth and

now notice verse 4 the Lord had sworn and he will not repent you are a priest forever after the order of Malki Tzedek the Malki Tzedek order was long before the Levitical order had been given to our people Israel of all in the law when the Messiah was prophesied about in the Bible in the Bible in Biblical time he is going to be a priest totally after different order the order of Malki Tzedek that's why brothers and sisters it is so important to understand here that Zechariah was called to make those crowns and to place it upon the high priest he couldn't do it unless it give you a symbolically act that he's speaking about

the future king who is going to be both the king of Israel as well as the priest after the order of Malki Tzedek I'm going to connect it with just one more verse if you'll allow me in Hebrews chapter 7 for this Malki Tzedek the king of Shalem priest of the most high God who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and he blessed him to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all first being by interpretation a king of righteousness and after that also the king of Shalem which is the king of peace king of Shalom without father and without mother without descent having neither beginning of days no end of

life but he made like unto the Son of God abides a priest continually so here the writer to the Hebrew believers explain to those Hebrew believers that the Lord Yeshua the Messiah is greater than all the Levitical high priestly ordered because he came and he entered in in his ministry after the order of the men that is called Malki Tzedek in the biblical history of our people Israel so beloved brothers I'm back in Zechariah in chapter 6 and in verses 10 and 11 take those three men's take the silver and the gold from them make yourself crowns atarot in Hebrew and place them upon the head of Joshua the son of Yotzedek the high priest

and so now here's the lesson of this the lesson that Zechariah received from the angel of the Lord is twofold number one here is what these three men representing with the crowns upon Joshua's head it's really speak to us in type and in picture about the coming branch the coming Messiah one of the titles of the Messiah is Tzemach in Hebrew the branch so look at this verse 12 and 13 here's the lesson that he is teaching Zechariah with the crowns upon Joshua's head and now he's speaking beautifully about the coming Messiah the future coming of the men the Tzemach the branch and he spake unto him and he said thus speaketh the Lord of

hosts say behold the man whose name is the branch and he shall grow up out of his place and he shall build the temple of the Lord and he shall bear the glory and he shall sit and he will rule upon his throne and he shall be a priest upon the throne and the council of shalom the council of peace shall be between both of them or them both now he's telling Zechariah see the act that you have just done you took all the silver the gold you made the crown you put it on Joshua's head i want to tell you this is a lesson this act is a symbolic act to tell you what

is going to happen in a future day he said to him you know look at the man behold the man you remember when Yeshua went to Pilate and they beat him and you remember when he sent him out and he said behold the man later on he said behold your king this is the man of God's council this is the man that God was found pleasure in him here he's called the bridge that's similar it's like a little shoot that comes out and grow we really see the humanity of the Messiah here called the branch the tzemach the bible tells us he will grow in the dry in a weary land he will grow as

a branch coming out of a dry ground you know all in the world around us all have failed all have come short of the glory of God but here's a man he is growing out in the midst of a dry land to give pleasure to the heart of God to meet the need of every man and he's called one of the beautiful messianic titles of Yeshua he's called a branch we see him in his humility in his simplicity in his perfection as well he was a man that brought pleasure to the heart of God in the Bible Isaiah said he's called a man of sorrows which have been acquainted with grief that's the man that

Zechariah needed to get his heart refreshed from you know what refresh your heart and mind in a time of so much trouble in this world in a personal problem family problem Israel have experienced at that time a problem to build the temple in the city of Jerusalem they have been opposition from without opposition from within they couldn't continue to build the temple in Jerusalem and Zechariah with his act really perform a symbolic act which takes us to the future day when the branch and he's called here behold the man whose name is the branch the Bible it tells us in Hebrew his name is Tzemach the Bible tells us where Miriam said and you shall

call his name yeshua for he will save his people from his people from their sins simple name he was a man from Natseret rejected and despised and yet he was a man that gave pleasure to the heart of God and so Zechariah says look at this man he's the branch and I just want to make one more point in chapter chapter 3 in verse 8 he's already had a reference to that branch here now oh joshua the high priest thou and thy fellows that sit before thee for they are men wondered at for behold i will bring forth my servant the branch avdi hatzemach we can see actually as i've already pointed out in the

four gospels that we have in the brit hachadashah in the new testament matthew we see him as the king mark we see him as the servant luke we see him as a man and john we see him in his divine nature as god a king a servant a perfect man who is none else but the eternal son of god who came down to this world we see it in isaiah chapter 4 that we find concerning this tzemach we see in jeremiah chapter 23 that he is called as well the tzemach and if you notice all these four chapters jeremiah 23 isaiah chapter 4 zechariah chapter 3 zechariah chapter 6 all those four chapters describe before

us the branch divine nature human nature servant and a king and so here beloved brothers and sisters he presents him as a man the humanity of the messiah now how the messiah is going to come in the future day look at the list of what the messiah the branch the man is called the branch look what he's going to do it tells us here in verse 12 and 13 in the future day in the future number one look what it says about him he shall grow up out of his place number two he shall build the temple of the lord by the way when he says he shall grow up out of his place it

tells us the growth of the messiah he will grow up just like any other boy here in this world you and i grew up in our home country some of us were born in jerusalem some of us were born here and in toronto some of us were born in other countries in this world and we all grew up it speaks about the humanity of the messiah but not only that he will grow up he shall build the temple of the lord people of israel stop to build the temple of the lord now because of opposition zechariah here is what's going to happen in a future day that the messiah himself who is called the branch

he himself is going to come one day and he's going to build the temple of the lord which had been tore down and broken then he continued notice in verse 13 he repeated again he said oh yes even he shall build the temple of the lord zechariah it is he who is going to build the temple of the lord and you know in the bible we have four temples we have the temple that solomon built the solomonic temple which was destroyed of course as you know very well by nebuchadnezzar then we have the temple that israel had built when they came back from babel and that's the temple that we are dealing with right now

this temple had been destroyed in 70 a.d by titus and the romans then we will have according to second thessalonian and the book of daniel and the book of revelation we have what is known to be the tribulation temple which god will not sanction and will not accept it because israel rejected the messiahship of yeshua god will not accept the sacrifices that will be offered in the tribulation period but there is a great temple that is going to come in a future day where we read about this temple in the book of yechezkel ezekiel the last chapters of ezekiel which the messiah himself the man who is called the branch he's going to build that

temple even he he shall build the temple of jehovah he will build that temple of jehovah in the future day zechariah then it says in verse 13b he said he shall bear the glory the hebrew word for glory is hod he will receive the glory that he deserves you remember we read in the book of philippians chapter 2 on verse 9 on it says therefore god have highly exalted him and giving him a name which is above every name that in the name of yeshua every knee will bow every tongue will confess that yeshua the messiah is lord to the glory of god the father and that's what we learn here he will come now

in his second coming now he takes us now not to the first coming because he already came he became a servant he died he finished the work on the tree but it takes him beyond the church age beyond the tribulation just to the end of the tribulation period and he says listen he is going to come that branch that once was rejected and despised and he is going to build for me the temple in jerusalem and he will receive the glory that he deserves in psalm 24 it says the earth is the lord's and the fullness thereof the world and they that dwell therein and then notice it goes down and then it says in

verse 7 lift up your heads or ye gates and be lifted up ye everlasting doors and the king of glory shall come in who is the king of glory the answer is jehovah strong and mighty jehovah are mighty in battle lift up your heads or ye gates even lift them up verse 9 ye everlasting doors and the king of glory shall come in who is the king of glory jehovah hope he is the king of glory and so he shall bear his glory we read in verse 13 of zechariah chapter 6 and then he continues and he tells us how the lord the the very same one who is the king and priest at the

same time and you see that he now going to rule as a king and he's going to function as a priest and he's going to sit upon his throne as it says here in verse 13 notice that after it says he shall bear his glory it says then he shall sit and rule upon his throne the hebrew word throne means his seat and then he shall be a priest upon his throne notice it's interesting here this is a very unusual statement he's going to rule as a king upon his throne and he will be a priest upon his throne if you are doing it according to the levitical order it's not possible a priest could

not sit as a king and a king could not function as a priest that's why it could only apply to one man that can hold these two three offices at the same time a prophet in his life a priest in his resurrection and ascension and a king in his second coming but here we see him now in the kingdom age as both the ruler as a king of righteousness who is sitting upon his throne and as the priest who is sitting also upon his throne how can this jive together it only can when we understand the priestly function of the lord jesus according to the order of malchitzedek he never had a beginning because he

is the eternal son of god he never will ever have an end because he is the eternal son of god god and the humanity in the person of the son and god is eternal the messiah is eternal therefore he can rule as a king and he can function as a minister as a priest as well at the very same time and as it says here at the end of verse 13 he said and the council of shalom peace shall be between them both what between both between his function as a priest as his function as a king there will be as it were here the council of peace shall be between them both in other

words there will not be any contradiction it will be the one that can function and do the very same ministries and services in a future day in the kingdom age and now the conclusion here now he took zecharia to the future when the messiah the tzemach the branch will come now bring him closer to the day in which they live 520 bc about right here in the text in which we live we are writing 520 now he's saying in the last verses of this chapter verses 14 and 15 this symbolic act zecharia will serve to be for you and the people of judah the people of israel as really the crown shall be to helen

and to tuviya and to yedaya and to hen the son of cephaniah for a memorial in the temple of the lord zecharia you will take these crowns that you have made out of silver and gold and you will place them in the temple that you are going to build right now and these crowns will serve to be as a memorial in the temple of the lord in jerusalem what does that mean a memorial you're going to look at the crowns and you will see you and all the others that he's speaking their names are mentioned here you will look at those crowns and it will serve to remind you the word for memorial memorial memorial

is core to remember and it will remind you of the promises that we have that god had given to the people of israel it will remind you that yet there is a day coming and yet in this day the messiah the branch will come and he will build the future temple and he will be the one that received the glory and he will sit upon his throne as king and priest it will serve as a memorial to remind you of what is going to happen in the future day now i don't know if you noticed but in verse 14 he changes two names notice that it says the crown shall be to helen notice helen

is the first name that is mentioned in verse 10 his name is a holdai he's changed his name from who died to helen and then he says and to tuvia that was the second man in verse 10 now in verse 14 is the same you repeat the same name and then to yedaya which is the same like the one before in verse 10 but then he changed the third the fourth name i should say take them according to verse 10 to the house of josiah the son of zephaniah here he changed his name from josiah to hen the son of zephaniah i was wondering also why is the change here what do they have two

names well they may have had two names i don't know but the word helen and the word hen really speaks of two hebrew words helen come from the word halom it's a dream that we are looking for for the future day we dream for that to occur to come to pass and the word hen come from the hebrew word grace if god is going to bring about the future day when the messiah will come and do what he was called to do to build the temple of jehovah in the city of jerusalem and there to sit as king priest there in that future day it's a desire of the nation it's like a dream that

is going to come to pass and it is only can happen on the basis of the grace of god so those crowns will serve to be zikaron memorial for all these men and for the people of judah who are now struggling in building the temple in jerusalem and they are remembering the day the future they don't get discouraged because there is day coming when israel is going to be restored and for us brothers and sisters don't get discouraged i know we sometimes get discouraged when things don't go away when all the desires of your heart doesn't seem to get through do not get fulfillment you have desires and they don't come to fruition and you

are discouraged we are discouraged but when we look at the scripture and we see the promises of god it should remind us that there are better days ahead for us we are going to be in the presence of the lord the body of christ the body of messiah we are going to be with our lord jesus the messiah in heaven and all the promises that he has given us all he will fulfill them to the letter he said if you remember in john 14 in my father's house there are many mentions and i go to prepare a place for you and if i go and prepare a place for you i will come again and

i will receive you unto myself that where i am there ye may be also there is a glorious day that are waiting the church the ecclesia the body of messiah but also for the nation of israel and the conclusion in verse 15 and they that are far off shall come and build the temple of the lord this one the one that israel that israel is called to build now at the time 520 bc they shall come and more people more jewish people will be gathered from babel and they're going to come they will build the temple of the lord and you shall know that the lord of hosts has sent me unto you and this

shall come to pass if you will diligently obey the voice of the lord in other words he expected from zechariah's people namely israel to listen to the voice of the lord to trust him to be diligent in building the house now and being faithful to the lord because yet is coming day they will come from the far they will build the temple the messiah himself will be the center of the future regathering of the nation of israel and the promises of the lord are surely going to come to pass we need to encourage each other with such verses as this very difficult last vision and yet the vision itself and all the other visions have

been summarized from verses 9 to 15 by the symbolic act of zechariah in placing the crowns upon joshua the high priest who is a type of the messiah yeshua in both ways king and priest and the messiah yeshua going to come in a future day to restore israel back to himself may the lord hasten this day and may the lord encourage us us today as we wait for his soon return