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OUTLINE ZECHARIAH CHAPTER TEN

JEWS ARE TO BE MINDFUL OF THE LORD IN EVERYTHING THAT CONCERNS THEM, BOTH IN BLESSINGS AND CURSINGS V. 1-4

THEY CAN EXPECT STRENGTH AND SUCCESS FROM THE LORDAND HOPE THAT ALL WILL BE ACCORDING TO HIS WILL V. 5-12

READ: ZECHARIAH 10:1-2

1 Ask the LORD for rain in the time of the latter rain. The LORD will make flashing clouds and He will give them showers of rain and grass in the field for everyone.

2 The idols speak delusion. The diviners envision lies and tell false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore the people wend their way like sheep. They are in trouble because there is no shepherd.

QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 10:1-2

1 Ask the LORD for rain in the time of the latter rain. The LORD will make flashing clouds and He will give them showers of rain and grass in the field for everyone.

WHAT SHOULD THEY ASK FOR?HOW WILL THE LORD ANSWER?

WHAT IS THE LATTER RAIN?WHAT IS THE FORMER RAIN?

HOW DOES THE LORD ACCOMPLISH THIS?WHAT WILL THE LORD GIVE THEM?


WHAT DID THE LORD PROMISE ISRAEL?

READ: DEUTERONOMY 11:13-15

13 It shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the LORD your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

14 Then I will give you the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

15 And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, that you may eat and be filled.


WHAT SHOULD THEY ASK FOR?

HOW WILL THE LORD ANSWER?

READ: HOSEA 2:21-23

21 It shall come to pass in that day that I will answer, says the LORD. I will answer the heavens and they shall answer the earth.

22 The earth shall answer with grain, with new wine, and with oil. They shall answer Jezreel.

23 I will sow her for Myself in the earth and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy. Then I will say to those who were not My people, You are My people! They shall say, You are my God!


WHAT IS THE LATTER RAIN?

READ: HOSEA 6:33 Let us know, Let us pursue the knowledge of the LORD.His going forth is established as the morning. He will come to us like the rain, Like the latter and former rain to the earth.

READ: JOEL 2:2323 Be glad then, you children of Zion, Rejoice in the LORD your God. For He has given you the former rain faithfully, And He will cause the rain to come down for you - The former rain, And the latter rain in the first month.

THE FORMER RAIN WAS IN AUTUMN (SEED TIME)THE LATTER RAIN WAS IN SPRING (EARING OF CORN)

THERE WAS NO RAIN IN JUNE AND JULY


HOW DOES THE LORD ACCOMPLISH THIS?

READ: JEREMIAH 10:13

13 When He utters His voice, There is a multitude of waters in the heavens. He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, He brings the wind out of His treasuries.

READ: PSALMS 135:7

7 He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth;

He makes lightning for the rain; He brings the wind out of His treasuries.

READ: JOB 37:6

6 He says to the snow, Fall on the earth. Likewise to the gentle rain and the heavy rain of His strength.


HOW DOES THE LORD ACCOMPLISH THIS?

READ: PSALMS 104:14-15

14 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle and vegetation for the service of man, That he may bring forth food from the earth,

15 And wine that makes glad the heart of man, Oil to make his face shine, And bread which strengthens man's heart.

READ: AMOS 4:7

7 I also withheld rain from you, When there were still three months to the harvest. I made it rain on one city, I withheld rain from another city. One part was rained upon, And where it did not rain the part withered.


CAN IDOLS OR DIVINERS BRING RAIN?


22 Are there any among the idols of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are You not He, O LORD our God? Therefore we will wait for You, Since You have made all these.


2 The idols speak delusion. The diviners envision lies and tell false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore the people wend their way like sheep. They are in trouble Because there is no shepherd.

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY CONCERNING DIVINERS?

HOW DID THE IDOLS SPEAK?

WHAT DID THE DIVINERS ENVISION?

HOW ARE THE PEOPLE LIKE SHEEP?

WHY ARE THEY TROUBLED?


WHAT DID THE LORD SAY CONCERNING DIVINERS?

READ: DEUTERONOMY 18:13-1413 You shall be blameless before the LORD your God.14 For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners. But as for you, the LORD your God has not appointed such for you.

READ: JEREMIAH 27:9-109 Therefore do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon.10 For they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land. And I will drive you out and you will perish.


WHAT DO DIVINERS SPEAK?

READ: JEREMIAH 29:8-98 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.9 For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them, says the LORD.

READ: EZEKIEL 21:2929 They see false visions for you and They divine a lie to you, To bring you on the necks of the wicked, the slain whose day has come, whose iniquity shall end.

READ: EZEKIEL 22:2828 Her prophets plastered them with un-tempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies for them, saying, Thus says the Lord GOD, when the LORD had not spoken.


WHY ARE THE PEOPLE LIKE SHEEP?WHY ARE THEY TROUBLED?

READ: EZEKIEL 34:5-65 They were scattered because there was no shepherd. And they became food for all the beasts of the field when they were scattered.6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill. Yes, My flock was scattered over the whole face of the earth and no one was seeking or searching for them.


3 My anger is kindled against the shepherds And I will punish the goatherds. For the LORD of hosts will visit His flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as His royal horse in the battle.

4 From Him comes the cornerstone, From Him the tent peg, From Him the battle bow, From Him every ruler together.


3 My anger is kindled against the shepherds and I will punish the goatherds. For the LORD of hosts will visit His flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as His royal horse in the battle. 4 From Him comes the cornerstone, From Him the tent peg, From Him the battle bow, From Him every ruler together. NKJV

READ: ZECHARIAH 10:33 My anger burns against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders. For the LORD Almighty will care for his flock, the house of Judah, and make them like a proud horse in battle.4 From Judah will come the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler. NIV


3 My anger is kindled against the shepherds and I will punish the goatherds. For the LORD of hosts will visit His flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as His royal horse in the battle.


WHO ARE THE SHEPHERDS?

WHO ARE THE GOATHERDS (LEADERS)?

WHO IS THE LORD’S ANGER KINDLED AGAINST?

WHY PUNISH THE LEADERS?

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR HIS FLOCK?

WHAT IS COMING FROM HIM (JUDAH)?



WHO IS THE LORD’S ANGER KINDLED AGAINST?

READ: EZEKIEL 34:9-10

10 Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against the shepherds and I will require My flock at their hand. I will cause them to cease feeding the sheep and the shepherds shall feed themselves no more. For I will deliver My flock from their mouths, that they may no longer be food for them.

WHO IS THE RAM? WHO IS THE MALE GOAT?

READ: DANIEL 8:5-7

5 As I was considering, suddenly a male goat came from the west, across the surface of the whole earth, without touching the ground. And the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.

6 He came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing beside the river, and ran at him with furious power.

7 I saw him confronting the ram; He was moved with rage against him, attacked the ram, and broke his two horns. There was no power in the ram to withstand him. He cast him down to the ground and trampled him. There was no one that could deliver the ram from his hand.

WHO IS THE RAM? MEDO-PERSIAN KINGS?

WHO IS THE MALE GOAT? KING OF GREECE??



WHO ARE THE SHEEP? THE GOATS?

READ: EZEKIEL 34:1717 As for you, O My flock, thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I shall judge between sheep and sheep and between rams and goats.

READ: MATTHEW 25:32-3332 All the nations will be gathered before Him. He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats.33 He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.



WHAT IS COMING FROM HIM (JUDAH)?

WHAT IS THIS CORNERSTONE?

WHAT IS THIS TENT PEG?

WHAT IS THE BATTLE BOW?

WHAT LEADERS SHALL COME TOGETHER?



WHAT IS THIS CORNERSTONE?

READ: ISAIAH 28:16

16 Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation, A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; Whoever believes will not act hastily.

READ: NUMBERS 24:17

17 I see Him, but not now. I behold Him, but not near. A Star shall come out of Jacob. A Scepter shall rise out of Israel and batter the brow of Moab and destroy all the sons of tumult.



WHAT IS THIS TENT PEG?

READ: EZRA 9:88 For a little while grace has been shown from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes and give us a measure of revival in our bondage.

READ: ISAIAH 22:22-2322 The key of the house of David, I will lay on his shoulder. He shall open and no one shall shut. He shall shut and no one shall open. 23 I will fasten Him as a peg in a secure place. He will become a glorious throne to his father's house.



WHAT IS THIS BATTLE BOW?

READ: PSALMS 45:4-5

4 Your majesty ride prosperously because of truth, humility, and righteousness. Your right hand shall teach You awesome things.

5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the King's enemies.

The peoples fall under You.

READ: REVELATION 6:2

2 I looked, and behold, a white horse. He who sat on it had a bow. A crown was given to Him and He went out conquering and to conquer.



WHO ARE THESE RULERS?

READ: ISAIAH 60:17-18

17 Instead of bronze I will bring gold, Instead of iron I will bring silver, Instead of wood, bronze, And instead of stones, iron. I will also make your officers peace and your magistrates righteousness.

18 Violence shall no longer be heard in your land, Neither wasting nor destruction within your borders. But you shall call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.


5 They shall be like mighty men, who tread down their enemies In the mire of the streets in the battle. They shall fight because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be put to shame.

6 I will strengthen the house of Judah. I will save the house of Joseph. I will bring them back, Because I have mercy on them. They shall be as though I had not cast them aside. For I am the LORD their God and I will hear them.


5 They shall be like mighty men, who tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle. They shall fight because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be put to shame.


WHAT WILL THEY BE LIKE?

WHAT WILL HAPPEN? WHY?

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM?

WHEN DID THE LORD CAST THEM ASIDE? WHY?


5 They shall be like mighty men, who tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle. They shall fight because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be put to shame.


WHAT DID DANIEL PROPHESY?

READ: DANIEL 11:40

40 At the time of the end the king of the South shall attack him; and the king of the North shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter the countries, overwhelm them, and pass through.

WHO IS THE KING OF THE SOUTH? NORTH?



READ: EZEKIEL 38:44 I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out, with all your army, horses, and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords.

READ: MICAH 7:1010 She who is my enemy will see and shame will cover her who said to me, Where is the LORD your God? My eyes will see her, AndShe will be trampled down, Like mud in the streets.

READ: 2 SAMUEL 22:433 I beat them as fine as the dust of the earth. I trod them like dirt in the streets and I spread them out.



WHY DID THE LORD CAST THEM ASIDE?

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM?


WHY DID THE LORD CAST THEM ASIDE?

READ: HOSEA 1:22 The LORD began to speak by Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea: Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry,The land has committed great harlotry by departing from the LORD.

WHY CALL THEIR SIN, HARLOTRY?

READ: JOSHUA 24:1414 Fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD!

READ: EZEKIEL 23:88 She has never given up her harlotry brought from Egypt. In her youth they had lain with her, Pressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their immorality upon her.


WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM? WHY?

READ: JEREMIAH 3:14

14 Return, O backsliding children, says the LORD. For I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.


37 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries where I have driven them in My anger, in My fury, and in great wrath. I will bring them back to this place and I will cause them to dwell safely.



HOW WILL THE LORD SAVE THEM? WHY?

READ: PSALMS 44:3

3 They did not gain possession of the land by their own sword, Nor did their own arm save them. But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance, Because You favored them.


7 Those of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man and their heart shall rejoice as if with wine. Yes, their children shall see it and be glad. Their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.

8 I will whistle for them and gather them. For I will redeem them. They shall increase as they once increased.



8 I will whistle for them and gather them, For I will redeem them. They shall increase as they once increased.

WHAT WILL THE MEN OF EPHRAIM BE LIKE?

WHY WILL THEY REJOICE?

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO? WHY?



WHY WILL THEY REJOICE?

READ: ISAIAH 60:5

5 You shall see and become radiant and your heart shall swell with joy; Because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, The wealth of the Gentiles shall come to you.


8 I will whistle for them and gather them, For I will redeem them. They shall increase as they once increased.

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?

READ: ISAIAH 5:26

26 He will lift up a banner to the nations from afar and will whistle to them from the end of the earth. Surely they shall come with speed, swiftly.

READ: ISAIAH 7:18

18 It shall come to pass in that day That the LORD will whistle for the fly that is in the farthest part of the rivers of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.


8 I will whistle for them and gather them, For I will redeem them. And They shall increase as they once increased.

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?


22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, So will I multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.

READ: EZEKIEL 36:11

11 I will multiply upon you man and beast. They shall increase and bear young. I will make you inhabited as in former times and do better for you than at your beginnings. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.


8 I will whistle for them and gather them, For I will redeem them. And They shall increase as they once increased.

WHAT DID THE LORD PROMISE JACOB?

READ: GENESIS 46:3-4

3 He said, I am God, the God of your father. Do not fear to go down to Egypt for I will make of you a great nation there.

4 I will go down with you to Egypt and I will also surely bring you up again. And Joseph will put his hand on your eyes.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL?



READ: EXODUS 1:7-10

7 The children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly. They multiplied and grew exceedingly mighty And the land was filled with them.

8 There arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.

9 He said to his people, Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

10 Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and it happen, in the event of war, that they also join our enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land.



READ: DEUTERONOMY 26:5

5 You shall answer and say before the LORD your God: My father was a Syrian, about to perish. He went down to Egypt and dwelt there, few in number. There he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

WHO WAS THIS SYRIAN? JACOB?

READ: HOSEA 12:12

2 Jacob fled to the country of Syria. Israel served for a spouse and for a wife he tended sheep.

READ: PSALMS 105:24

4 He increased His people greatly and made them stronger than their enemies.


9 I will sow them among the peoples, and they shall remember Me in far countries. They shall live, together with their children, and they shall return.

10 I will also bring them back from the land of Egypt, and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon, until no more room is found for them.


9 I will sow them among the peoples, and they shall remember Me in far countries. They shall live together with their children. And they shall return.


HOW WILL THE LORD SOW THEM?

WHAT WILL THEY REMEMBER?

WHY WILL THEY RETURN?

WHERE WILL THEY COME BACK FROM?

WHERE WILL THE LORD TAKE THEM?



HOW WILL THE LORD SOW THEM?


Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast.

READ: MICAH 5:7

7 The remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples, Like dew from the LORD, Like showers on the grass, That tarry for no man Nor wait for the sons of men.



WHAT WILL THEY REMEMBER?

READ: EZEKIEL 6:8-9

9 Those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations where they are carried captive, because I was crushed by their adulterous heart which has departed from Me, and by their eyes which play the harlot after their idols. They will loathe themselves for the evils which they committed in all their abominations.



WHERE WILL THEY DWELL?

READ: EZEKIEL 37:14

14 I will put My Spirit in you and you shall live. I will place you in your own land. You shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it and performed it, says the LORD.

READ: EZEKIEL 37:25

25 They shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, where your fathers dwelt. They shall dwell there, they, their children, and their children's children, forever. And My servant David shall be their prince forever.


WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT THEM TO DO?

READ: JEREMIAH 3:12-14

12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say:

Return, backsliding Israel, says the LORD. I will not cause My anger to fall on you. For I am merciful, says the LORD. I will not remain angry forever.

13 Only acknowledge your iniquity, You have transgressed against the LORD your God. You have scattered your charms to alien deities under every green tree. You have not obeyed My voice, says the LORD.

14 Return, O backsliding children, says the LORD, For I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city and two from a family. I will bring you to Zion.



WHERE WILL THEY COME BACK FROM?WHEN DID THEY GO BACK TO EGYPT?WHERE WILL THE LORD TAKE THEM?

HOW MANY SHALL RETURN?



WHEN DID THEY GO BACK TO EGYPT?

READ: HOSEA 9:3

3 They shall not dwell in the LORD‘S land. But Ephraim shall return to Egypt And shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

READ: ISAIAH 11:11

11 It shall come to pass in that day That the Lord shall set His hand again the second time To recover the remnant of His people who are left, From Assyria and Egypt, From Pathros and Cush, From Elam and Shinar, From Hamath and the islands of the sea.



WHERE WILL THEY COME BACK FROM?

READ: HOSEA 11:1111 They shall come trembling like a bird from Egypt, Like a dove from the land of Assyria. And I will let them dwell in their houses, Says the LORD.

READ: ISAIAH 11:1616 There will be a highway for the remnant of His people Who will be left from Assyria, As it was for Israel in the day that he came up from the land of Egypt.



HOW MANY SHALL RETURN?

READ: ISAIAH 49:20

20 The children you will have, After you have lost the others,

Will say again in your ears, The place is too small for me; Give me a place where I may dwell.

READ: ISAIAH 54:3

3 You shall expand to the right and to the left. And Your descendants will inherit the nations, and make the desolate cities inhabited.


11 He shall pass through the sea with affliction, and strike the waves of the sea: All the depths of the River shall dry up. Then the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart.

12 So I will strengthen them in the LORD, and they shall walk up and down in His name, Says the LORD.



12 So I will strengthen them in the LORD, and they shall walk up and down in His name, Says the LORD.

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO? HOW?

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO EGYPT & ASSYRIA?

HOW WILL THE LORD STRENGTHEN HIS PEOPLE?



WHAT WILL THE LORD DO? HOW?

READ: ISAIAH 11:15-16

15 The LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt; With His mighty wind He will shake His fist over the River.

He will strike it in the seven streams And make men cross over dry-shod.

16 There will be a highway for the remnant of His people

Who will be left from Assyria, As it was for Israel in the day that he came up from the land of Egypt.

WHAT DID THE LORD DO THAT DAY?



WHAT DID THE LORD DO THAT DAY?

READ: EXODUS 14:2121 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided.

READ: EXODUS 15:8 8 With the blast of Your nostrils The waters were gathered together. The floods stood upright like a heap and The depths congealed in the heart of the sea.

READ: PSALMS 114:33 The sea saw it and fled And Jordan turned back.



WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO EGYPT AND ASSYRIA?

READ: EZEKIEL 30:13

13 Thus says the Lord GOD: I will also destroy the idols, And cause the images to cease from Noph; There shall no longer be princes from the land of Egypt; I will put fear in the land of Egypt.


12 I will strengthen them in the LORD. They shall walk up and down in His name, Says the LORD.

HOW WILL THE LORD STRENGTHEN HIS PEOPLE?

READ: PSALMS 20:1-2

1 May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob defend you.

2 May He send you help from the sanctuary and strengthen you out of Zion.

READ: PSALMS 68:28

28 God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, O God, what You have done for us.

READ: MICAH 4:5

5 All people walk each in the name of his god. But we will walk in the name of the LORD our God Forever and ever.


HOW DOES THE LORD STRENGTHEN HIS PEOPLE?

READ: COLOSSIANS 1:10-11

10 Walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

11 Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy.

READ: EPHESIANS 3:16-17

16 He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man.

17 Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith… being rooted and grounded in love.

READ: PHILIPPIANS 4:13

13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

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