Zechariah 1:8

I saw

The "man" (Zechariah 1:8) is the "my lord," "the angel that talked with me" (Zechariah 1:9), and "the angel of the Lord" (Zechariah 1:10); (Zechariah 1:11). The "man" "stood among the myrtle trees" (Zechariah 1:8). The prophet addresses him as "my lord" (compare (Genesis 19:2), but when the "man" answers he perceives that he has addressed an angel -- "the angel that talked with me" (Zechariah 1:9). In (Zechariah 1:10). The being of the vision is again "the man that stood among the myrtle trees." In (Zechariah 1:11). He is called "the angel of the Lord," and to him the (riders on the) "red horses, speckled with white" say: "We have walked to and fro," etc. Then (Zechariah 1:12), "the angel of the Lord" (that is, the "man," "my lord," "the angel that talked with me") intercedes for the land against a world at ease. The date of the intercession was at the end of the 70 years' captivity of Judah. (Zechariah 1:9).

Taken as a whole (Zechariah 1:8) Zechariah's first vision reveals Judah in dispersion; Jerusalem under adverse possession; and the Gentile nations at rest about it. This condition still continues, and Jehovah's answer to the intercession of the angel sweeps on to the end-time of Gentile domination, when "the Lord shall yet comfort Zion," etc. (Zechariah 1:16); (Zechariah 1:17); (Isaiah 40:1).

See "Kingdom (Old Testament)"

( See Scofield) - (Genesis 1:26).

( See Scofield) - (Zechariah 12:8).

red horse

Compare (Revelation 6:4).

The whole Gentile period is characterized by the red horse, that is, "sword."; (Daniel 9:26); (Matthew 24:6); (Matthew 24:7).