THE PROPHECY OF ZECHARIAH AND THE MERCY OF GOD (Part 4)
The four horns of the nations will render an account before God
“Then I looked up and saw four horns. So I asked the angel who was speaking with me: “What are these?” He replied: “These are the horns that dispersed Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem”” (Zechariah 1:18,19)
The horns are the expression of sovereignty, whether of God or exercised by men. The “four horns” seem to allude to the symbolism of those found on the four corners of the temple altar in Jerusalem, representing Jehovah’s sovereignty through the power of the bull’s horns (Exodus 27:2). Obviously, the “four horns” which scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem, represent the rival sovereignty of the nations which worked as artisans who wrought the calamity of the people of God (Zechariah 1:20; Psalms 94:20). The book of Zechariah shows, in different ways, how these “four horns” will render an account before God, at the time of the great tribulation, always against the biblical historical background of Judah, Israel and Jerusalem: “Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,” declares Jehovah. “For I have scattered you to the four winds of the heavens,” declares Jehovah. “Come, Zion! Make your escape, you who are dwelling with the daughter of Babylon. 8 For this is what Jehovah of armies says, who after being glorified has sent me to the nations that were plundering you: ‘Whoever touches you touches the pupil of my eye. 9 For now I will wave my hand against them, and they will become plunder for their own slaves.’ And you will certainly know that Jehovah of armies has sent me” (Zechariah 2:6–9; 12:7- 9; 14:3).
It seems that Zechariah 1:19, reveals what correspond to the three different colors of the horses, which act to avenge the myrtles, the people of God. The color red, represents Judah. The color reddish-brown, Israel. The white color Jerusalem. The avenging horsemen of the myrtles, are evidently angels who cause a plague on all the earth, because according to the prophecy, horses symbolize the plague (Zechariah 14:15). The one who commands this cavalry is red, an archangel (leader of the angels), who watches over the myrtles (Exodus 23:20). This means that the color red (Judah), symbolizes the sovereignty of God through kingship. The color white (Jerusalem) symbolizes the sovereignty of God through the priesthood. The reddish-brown color, represents Israel as a whole. Zechariah’s prophecy explains how God will show His mercy on His present people, before, during and after the great tribulation, using the historical account of the tribe of Judah, the 12 tribes of Israel and Jerusalem, at the time of his return from exile from Babylon to Jerusalem. The sentence pronounced by the horsemen after having circulated over all the earth, is the description of the earth after the great tribulation: “We have walked about in the earth, and look! the whole earth is quiet and undisturbed” (Zechariah 1:11).
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