A Commentary on Zechariah

David Pawson has a worldwide teaching ministry, particularly for church leaders. He is known to many through Christian broadcasting and is the author of numerous books. Zechariah points straight forward to Jesus Christ our Lord. Though it was spoken and written five hundred years before Jesus was born in Bethlehem, again and again the prophet looks ahead. He is a prisoner of the hope for the Messiah. Therefore, he predicts many things about our Lord Jesus Christ - more than any other Old Testament prophet, except perhaps Isaiah. It is he who tells us that one day the Messiah will ride into Jerusalem meekly, on the colt of an ass. It is this prophet who predicts thirty pieces of silver as the price for which he who is the truth would be sold. It is this prophet who predicts that the body of the Messiah would be pierced. It is this prophet who predicts that one day the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ will stand on the Mount of Olives again. So this prophecy is a very precious little one. The book has only fourteen chapters, eight or ten pages in your Bible, yet Zechariah is what Martin Luther called the quintessence of all the prophets, the one who seems to distil everything said by the earlier prophets. Zechariah's message cuts right through to the heart, leaving hearers in no doubt as to what he wanted to say or what God wanted to say. It certainly shook his congregation....