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Oct 25, 2023 · There are a few prominent men in the Bible named Zechariah (alternate spelling Zacharias or Zachariah ). One was an Old Testament prophet who prophesied in the days of Haggai and who wrote the book of Zechariah ( Ezra 5:1; Zechariah 1:1 ).
- Who Was The Prophet Zechariah in The Bible
Zechariah lived during the time of Judah’s restoration, when...
- Elizabeth
Elizabeth and Zechariah are called “righteous and blameless”...
- Burn Incense
In his vision of heaven, John saw that the elders around the...
- Who Was The Prophet Zechariah in The Bible
- Zechariah Is A Priest
- Zechariah Is from The Tribe of Levi
- Zechariah Followed The Law of Moses
- Zechariah Is The First Person in The NT to Speak with An Angel
- Zechariah Is Old and (At First) Childless
- Zechariah Prayed For A Child
- Zechariah Doesn’T Believe The Angel’s Message
A priest is someone whose responsibilities included offering sacrifices and taking care of the Temple of the Lord, and blessing the Lord’s name (1 Chr 23:13). One of their duties was to make sure that incense was burning before the Lord at all times. Zechariah is offering incense when we meet him in the book of Luke (Lk 1:9). The priests were desce...
In Bible times, the Jews traced their ancestry back to one of Jacob’s twelve sons. Zechariah is from the tribe of Levi, the same tribes that Moses, Aaron, Ezra, and Asaph hail from.
Luke tells us that both Zechariah and his wife Elizabeth were “blameless” when it came to the Torah: they observed all the Lord’s decrees and commands (Lk 1:6). Now, this doesn’t mean they were sinless—we’ll see in just a minute that Zechariah is not perfect. It means that they followed the commands thoroughly: especially the commands that involved...
Most of our stories of Jesus’ birth start with an angel speaking to either Mary or Joseph, right? Well, when Luke kicks off his story of Jesus, he begins with an angel speaking to Jesus’ relative, Zechariah. Zechariah is ministering in the temple when an angel appears. The angel tells Zechariah that his wife will bear a son: one who will go before ...
Luke fills his first chapter with callbacks and allusions to the miraculous of significant figures in Israel’s history. Zechariah and Elizabeth are old and have no children: similar to how Abraham and Sarah were before the birth of Isaac. It was a sad thing in those days to have no children. In their culture, having no children meant that your fami...
Luke doesn’t record Zechariah’s prayer. But the angel who visits him does mention that he had prayed to have a son (Lk 1:13).
When God told Abraham that his wife Sarah would bear a son, Sarah laughed at the idea (Gn 18:11–15). In similar fashion, when the angel tells Zechariah that his wife will bear a son in her old age, Zechariah does not believe it. Zechariah asks how he can be sure that such an outlandish promise will come to pass. The angel replies, “I am Gabriel” (a...
Aug 25, 2010 · Zechariah was a young priest who returned from Babylon with the group led by Zerubabbel in 538 BC. The Temple of Zech. 1:16 was the 2nd Temple, which had not yet been built. Solomon’s temple had been destroyed by the Babylonians 70 years earlier, and a major part of Zechariah’s mission was to encourage the returning Jews to build another one.
Dec 12, 2014 · Have you ever considered the New Testament letters that Paul, the Apostle, did NOT write? Who wrote them? Who are they addressed to and what issues are they confronting? Do they have anything in common? What themes emerge that help us understand Jesus Christ’s teachings even more clearly?
Zechariah (Hebrew: זְכַרְיָה Zəḵaryā, "remember Yah"; Greek: Ζαχαρίας; Zacharias in KJV; Zachary in the Douay–Rheims Bible; Zakariyya (Arabic: زكـريـا, romanized: Zakariyyā) in Islamic tradition) is a Jewish figure in the New Testament and the Quran, and venerated in Christianity and Islam.
Jun 15, 2004 · Temple Rebuilt: Haggai and Zechariah prophesied and the Temple was completed under Darius I (521-486) a. Levitical sacrifices were reinstituted on an altar built for burnt offerings (Ezra 3:1-6)
