Zechariah 9

Return to the stronghold,
You prisoners of hope.
Even today I declare
That I will restore double to you. v.12

Read chapter 9
Israel at this time was set free from captivity and able to return to their land, yet many were still living as prisoners or in a foreign land; tied to the ways and affairs of life they had been living in for so long and waiting for a break or a return to their land.  They were prisoners of hope or prisoners of expectation.  Expectation of the promises of God to come and save them.  Zechariah, and other prophets, proclaimed that their king was coming to save them and set them free, now for them not just from captivity but from bondage of this fallen world.  Jehovah is to be the strong hold the return to. Jesus Christ was their long waited Messiah coming first with salvation and second time to reign as king over all the earth. As Zechariah gives them hope in verses 9-10:
"Behold, your King is coming to you;
He is just and having salvation,
Lowly and riding on a donkey,
A colt, the foal of a donkey.
10 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
And the horse from Jerusalem;
The battle bow shall be cut off.
He shall speak peace to the nations;
His dominion shall be ‘from sea to sea,
And from the River to the ends of the earth.'"
They will receive double portion of blessing; like we read of Job (Job chapter 42).  In their most prosperous state they knew they will receive double blessings of that in time to come. Is that not worth running to and returning to the Lord?!
How do you feel and relate to being a prisoner of hope today?