Quotes About Prophecy

For the second time that day, the twenty-fourth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to Haggai, saying,

“Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah that I am about to shake the heavens and the earth:

In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying:

Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ëTurn now from your evil ways and deeds.í But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.

But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ëJust as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.í”

On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo.

I looked out into the night and saw a man riding on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in the hollow, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.

Then I looked up and saw four horns.

So I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these?” And he told me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”

“Where are you going?” I asked. “To measure Jerusalem,” he replied, “and to determine its width and length.”

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

So he said, “These are the two anointed ones who are standing beside the Lord of all the earth.”

Again I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll.

“What do you see?” asked the angel. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”

Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and told me, “Now lift up your eyes and see what is approaching.”

And behold, the cover of lead was raised, and there was a woman sitting inside the basket.

“This is Wickedness,” he said. And he shoved her down into the basket, pushing down the lead cover over its opening.

And again I lifted up my eyes and saw four chariots coming out from between two mountains—mountains of bronze.

The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses,

the third white horses, and the fourth dappled horses—all of them strong.

And the angel told me, “These are the four spirits of heaven, going forth from their station before the Lord of all the earth.

The one with the black horses is going toward the land of the north, the one with the white horses toward the west, and the one with the dappled horses toward the south.”

The word of the LORD also came to me, saying,

And you are to tell him that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ëHere is a man whose name is the Branch, and He will branch out from His place and build the temple of the LORD.