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The book of Zechariah we'll discover has a lot of parallels with the book of Revelation. Starting off in this first chapter for example Zechariah sees in a vision three horses of different colors: red, sorrel (washed out yellowish color) and white and in Revelation 6 we see John's vision of different color horses (red, white, black and pale) carrying the seals of judgment. Zechariah is assumed to be the last book written in the Old Testament (though it is the second to last book in the order we have in our Bibles) because it has recorded the latest date until Jesus' birth beginning the New Testament. We may even assume this when Jesus references the prophet Zechariah in referring to the first death of Able to the shed blood of Zechariah summing up all those of the Old Testament prophets and wise men from the first to the last:
Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. (Matthew 23:34-35)We see in this record also from Matthew how Zechariah dies, a martyr's death, though we don't have that recorded here in the book of Zechariah. Just like John's vision of the future, so Zechariah's vision of the future and His communion with Jehovah caused him to live and die for Christ. You may have not had a revelation of the future like John or Zechariah, but we have their revelations written for us that we may believe and know. Have you experienced and grasped the Lord's truth to cause you to live for Christ no matter what?
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