1. Today – Zechariah 9-11 Zechariah’s Account of The First Advent

2. Perspective Zechariah 1st Advent You and I 2nd Advent
~500BC 4BC-AD30 7/2/2017 Mt 24:36

3. Observations ‘burden’, 9:1 and 12:1
First ‘burden’ see 9:9 and 11:13, the coming King
Criticism of chapters 9-14
Chapter 11 ‘the hardest passage in the Old Testament’.
General outline …

4. Some Things The Lord/King/Shepherd Will Do for ‘Prisoners of Hope’
The Lord, The King, The Shepherd Will …
Free from waterless pit 9:11
Be seen over them 9:14
Save them as a flock of His people 9:16
Give them showers of rain 10:1
Be angry against the false shepherds 10:3
Be a cornerstone :4

5. Some Things The Lord/King/Shepherd Will Do for ‘Prisoners of Hope’
The Lord, The King, The Shepherd Will …
7. Be with them 10:5
8. Strengthen them… 10:6
9. Make hearts rejoice 10:7
10. Remember them in far countries 10:9
11. Bring them back 10:9, 10
12. Strengthen them in the Lord 10:12

6. Lessons For Us
You should be confident in the Bible prophecies of the 2nd advent based on Z’s prophecy of 1st advent.
This confidence should strengthen your hope in the present. Hope for Israel is also hope for Christians.
Zechariah 11 shows the awful consequence of rejecting Jesus – ruins, 11:3.
Jesus is the good Shepherd. Read John 14. Recite Psalm 23.