by Shelley | Oct 27, 2022 | Bible Fiber, Zechariah
Subscribe to Bible Fiber on Youtube or listen to Bible Fiber wherever you listen to your podcasts! Zechariah 11 is arguably the most enigmatic and gloomy section of the entire book. The chapter’s prelude is a dark poem portraying personified trees wailing over their...
by Shelley | Oct 21, 2022 | Bible Fiber, Zechariah
Bible Fiber is available on Youtube or wherever you listen to your podcasts! Zechariah 9 ends with the promise of agricultural fertility: “Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the young women” (9:17). The guarantee of satiated bellies carries over...
by Shelley | Oct 7, 2022 | Bible Fiber, Zechariah
Subscribe to our Youtube channel or follow Bible Fiber wherever you listen to your podcasts! Biblical scholars divide Zechariah into three units: the vision sequence in Zechariah 1-6; the prophet’s answer to the Bethel delegation in Zechariah 7-8; and eschatological...
by Shelley | Sep 30, 2022 | Bible Fiber, Zechariah
Subscribe to Bible Fiber’s Youtube channel or Follow Bible Fiber wherever you listen to your podcasts! Zechariah 8 is a continuation of the prophet’s response to the Bethel delegation’s question about fast days. Their inquiry had provoked a somewhat testy sermon...
by Shelley | Sep 22, 2022 | Bible Fiber, Zechariah
Subscribe to our Youtube Channel or Follow Bible Fiber wherever you listen to your podcasts! The second section of Zechariah 7 opens with a precise date superscription: “in the fourth year of King Darius” (7:1). Apparently, the book picks up two years after the...
by Shelley | Sep 15, 2022 | Bible Fiber, Zechariah
Subscribe to Bible Fiber on Youtube or Follow Bible Fiber wherever you listen to your podcasts! This week we are reading Zechariah 6. The eighth and final vision concludes with what biblical scholars call a prophetic sign-act, a real-life action by the prophet that...
