And athe angel who was speaking with me came back and bawakened me, like a man who is awakened out of his sleep.Zech 1:91 Kin 19:5-7; Jer 31:26 2 He said to me, “aWhat do you see?” I said, “I see, and behold, a 1blampstand all of gold, with its bowl for oil on the top of it and its cseven lamps on it with seven spouts belonging to each of the lamps which are on the top of it. Matt 5:14, 16; Luke 12:35; Phil 2:15; Rev 1:20The lampstand may symbolize Israel as a light to the nations.Jer 1:13; Zech 5:2Ex 25:31, 37; Jer 52:19Rev 4:5 3 And there are atwo olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left side supplying it continuously with oil.” Rev 11:4-13Zech 4:11; Rev 11:4 4 So I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these, amy lord?”Zech 1:9; 4:5, 13; 6:4 5 Then athe angel who was speaking with me answered me, “bDo you not know what these are?” And I said, “No, my lord.”Zech 1:9; 4:1Zech 4:13 6 Then he said to me, “This continuous supply of oil is the word of the LORD to aZerubbabel prince of Judah, saying, ‘bNot by might, nor by power, but by My cSpirit of whom the oil is a symbol,’ says the LORD of hosts.Ezra 5:2; Hag 2:4, 5Is 11:2-4; 30:1; Hos 1:72 Chr 32:7, 8; Eph 6:17 7 ‘What are you, O great amountain of obstacles? Before Zerubbabel who will rebuild the temple you will become a plain ! And he will bring out the capstone of the new temple with loud bshouts of “Grace, grace to it!”’” Ezra 4:1-5, 24; Is 40:4Ps 114:4, 6; Is 40:4; Jer 51:25; Nah 1:5; Zech 14:4, 5Ezra 3:10, 11; Ps 84:11
8 Also the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 9 “The hands of Zerubbabel have alaid the foundations of this house, and his hands will bfinish it. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me as His messenger to you.Ezra 3:8-10; 5:16; Hag 2:18Ezra 6:14, 15; Zech 6:12, 13 10 Who with reason despises the day of asmall things ? For these 1bseven eyes shall rejoice when they see the cplumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. They are the deyes of the LORD which eroam throughout the earth.” Rev 5:6The seven eyes reflect God’s oversight of the world and its inhabitants, and His pleasure in the construction of the temple.Neh 4:2-4; Amos 7:2, 5; Hag 2:3Zech 3:9; Rev 8:2Amos 7:7, 82 Chr 16:9; Prov 15:3; Jer 16:17Zech 1:10; Rev 5:6
11 Then I said to him who was speaking with me, “What are these atwo olive trees on the right side of the lampstand and on its left?”Zech 4:3; Rev 11:4 12 And a second time I said to him, “What are these two olive branches which are beside the two golden pipes by which the golden oil is emptied?” 13 And he answered me, “aDo you not know what these are?” And I said, “No, bmy lord.”Zech 4:5Zech 4:4, 5 14 Then he said, “These are the two 1asons of fresh oil Joshua the high priest and Zerubbabel the prince of Judah who are bstanding by the cLord of the whole earth as His anointed ones.” Rev 11:4The oil used in anointing symbolizes the Holy Spirit (v 6). The combination of priest and ruler points ultimately to the Messianic Priest-King (Ps 110; Zech 6:13; Heb 7).Ex 29:7; 40:15; 1 Sam 16:1, 12, 13; Is 61:1-3; Dan 9:24-26Zech 3:1-7Mic 4:13