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I'm not sure what to do with that information, but it's interesting. With how Jerusalem is described, it seems to again be talking about the Millennium, with many people residing safely in Jerusalem and God’s Shekinah glory (the pillar/wall of fire) being among them again. This has not been...

So for the third vision in Zechariah 2, I'm still trying to figure out why Jerusalem is being measured. We see a similar event happened in Ezekiel 40-42, although in this case the city of Jerusalem itself is being measured instead of the Temple, and there are no precise numbers given as in Ezekiel.

I type my notes, so it's okay.

Oh, okay! I will use your first name, Christian. I'm so sorry, I wasn't sure if Christian was your name or if it was part of an alias. I'm Lauren by the way, if you want to use my first name.

What is your first name?

That's alright, I understand, I look forward to hearing your thoughts. Do you want me to share my notes from where we left off on?

Hi, christianriddle! Yep, I finished the session for Chapter 3 today. How did your studying go?

Goodnight, christianriddle, and God bless.

That would be great, let me know when you would like to talk again.

Well, I finished Session 2 of the commentary today (I do one a day and take a quiz), which ended on finishing Chapter 2. So as far as where I'm at right now in the commentary we're at a good pace. I did read ahead some though as I like to be prepared for the next Session.

What do you mean?

I go through an online Bible Institute. The lectures are prerecorded and we either download or stream them. The Zechariah one I'm going through is a verse-by-verse commentary, so he's rather thorough as he goes through it.

It's possible, although I imagine there's a reason as to they are referred to as carpenters. My lecturer joked that "Well, I mean, the Anti-christ is going to be defeated by a carpenter after all." But I'm not sure how that applies since there's four carpenters.

So what do you think about the four carpenters in the vision? I feel like they could be angels as well, except they are being used as part of the means to overthrow the kingdoms, but I honestly have no idea.

I don't think it's a red herring, the Gentile kingdoms are given real power to disperse the people and reign in the earth, but their kingdoms will swiftly come to an end when Christ deals with them fully. At least that's how it appears to be when I look at Revelation 20 and the dreams and...

Yes, my reasoning with the horns is that horns are often used in the Bible as a sign of power (i.e Psalm 18:2, Jeremiah 48:25), hence why using the horns in Jericho was so effective symbolically, because it represented that the power behind it was God. The usage seems consistant here. Except we...

It's Zechariah 1:18-21, although I know some Bibles put this vision in the beginning of chapter 2.

Sure, so what I think about the second vision of the four horns is I think each horn represents one of each of the four primary Gentile kingdoms that are to reign before the end times according to Daniel's visions. (Babylon, Persia, Grecia, and Rome.) Which will then be subsequently destroyed. I...

And I certainly agree, I think that's the case with all of Zechariah's visions, hence why some scholars like to call the book the "Apocalypse of the Old Testament", although that's not the say the scholars are always right.