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"What are these, my lord?"

Text: Zechariah 6:4

HUMBLE INQUIRY

These visions were profoundly difficult to comprehend. Zechariah could not comprehend what the vision of the four chariots mean. Humbly, he turned to his teaching angel and asked him to explain.

“Then I answered and said to the angel who talked with me,
‘What are these, my lord?’
And the angel answered and said to me,
‘These are four spirits of heaven,
who go out from their station before the Lord of all the earth.'”
Zechariah 6:4-5

1. Zechariah’s question

a) Candidly, he confessed he did not know how to interpret this vision of the four chariots.

b) Humbly, he had to ask his teaching angel what the four chariots represented.

2. The reply of the teaching angel

a) These are the four spirits of heaven.

i) Angels are spirit-beings.

ii) These four spirits were powerful angels of God.

b) Where are they normally stationed?

i) They are stationed in heaven.

ii) They stand before the LORD of all the earth.

c) Are they the same as the angels mentioned in Zechariah 1?

i) The first set of angels were riding on horses.

ii) This set of angels were riding on chariots.

iii) They are different from the first set of angels mentioned in Zechariah 1.

d) They were being sent out by the LORD from their usual station in heaven.

e) This would indicate that they had been assigned an important task to perform.