ReDiscover God's word verse by verse chapter by chapter this is real Bible study with teacher Tom Bradford welcome to Torah class we ended our previous lesson at Zechariah 5:7 and we were left with a couple of questions to answer and they were what has a lead lid over the apha basket to do with anything and why would there be a woman inside that basket and before we address those matters keep in mind that chapters five and six are said by most Bible commentators to be all about the topic of God's judgment now my disagreement is that I dislike the use of the term judgment because as it is thought of in modern times in the Western World especially to the religious sphere judgment always means a negative decision or outcome judgment is taken to mean the dealing out of punishment for transgressions a better term that more exemplifies what is happening is justice justice is a more neutral term which westerners understand mean means to consider facts then render a proper and fair verdict the outcome can be negative or positive depending upon the decision of the judge based on the evidence before him so in chapters five and six God is rendering Justice first upon the Israelites as individuals next it is upon them as a nation of people corporate Justice finally Justice upon the Gentile Nations that is everyone except for Israel and in each instance a case is presented and a verdict is rendered now interestingly while God is the preing judge it is as the Chief Justice of his Heavenly Council the Council of divine beings called Elohim that are the administrators of Heaven they are to carry out God's will in heaven just as humans are to carry out God's will on Earth all of this is expressed in Ultra complex and mysterious symbolism some of which can be rather can rather clearly be figured out but the remainder is much tougher and we can't get too rigid on what we think it might be getting to until the prophecy finally plays out part of the reason for this complexity and its several uncertainties is that it deals with both zechariah's present and also his far future some things even future to us though nearer than ever like the end times now in so much of the Bible the vast majority of it we can read a few paragraphs and come to some reasonable conclusions about the point or points being made Zechariah is radically different going through Zechariah is like working our way through a well- constructed murder mystery novel in which cluser dropped chapter by chapter but the reader can't make full sense of it until the end because that's how the author intends it we are still fairly early on in the dropping of clues in Zechariah but if we don't carefully examine each clue each symbol then we'll not be able to properly put the pieces together even at the end or we'll come to a wrong conclusion so hang in there now since s chapter 5 is short just 11 verses for the sake of context we'll reread it all so open your Bibles to Zechariah Chapter 5 Zechariah Chapter Five Zechariah Chapter 5 again I raised my eyes and I saw in front of me a flying scroll and he said to me what do you see and I replied I see a flying scroll 30 feet long and 15t wide and he said to me this is the curse that goes out over the face of all the land for according to what is written on one side everyone who steals will be swept away according to what is written on the other side everyone who swears will be kept swept away I will release it says Adan IA o and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name and it will stay there inside the house and consume it completely even its Timbers and Stones then the angel speak speaking with me went forward and said to me now raise your eyes and see what this thing is passing by and I asked what is it he said this is the epha measure passing by and then he added this is their eye in all the land and next I saw a lead disc lifted up to reveal a woman sitting in the epha and he said this is evil and he threw her down into the apha and pressed the lead weight over it opening and I raised my eyes and saw two women coming with the wind in their wings for they had wings like those of a stor they lifted the epha up between the earth in the sky and I asked the angel speaking with me where are they taking the apha and he answered me to build it a shrine in the land of shinar when it's ready the apho will be set down there on its base I'm going to mention again that when we examine each symbolic element we must do so in light of the knowledge that we must take each element as but part of a whole and we must do that as it would be understood in the minds of the ancient Israelites in the 6th Century BC in the Hebrew culture as best we can now in the present symbolism the woman in the basket represents wickedness the same theme gets carried out in much later times end times as the Harlot of Babylon a woman again representing wickedness now on the the case of the AA it is a Hebrew cultural object so the AA represents Israel's corporate sins here's the greater point of the combined symbols as it applies to zechariah's day it is the individual grains that are collected together to fill the apha basket and so in like kind our individual sinful isra ites brought together into one basket to be brought to Justice before God as it applies to Future times the individual grains are likened to individual sinners from every nation on Earth and they too will be collected together into one basket to be brought to Justice before God now the lead Li on top of the apah held captive the Sinners until God was ready to meet out his Justice in fact the lead lid to see seem to somewhat hide from Israel the truth of their own sin until God was ready to deal with it and I dare say only very few people ever see themselves as wicked no matter how disobedient to God they might be God worshippers especially have a pinent for thinking that if they merely believe in God then they must be good and the constantinian church has gone a long way towards convincing their congregants that once saved by believing in Christ then your sinning is of no further consequence in in a sense it's no longer sin simply believing in Jesus is sufficient for the father to see you and all your actions as righteous this is a dangerously erroneous Doctrine what was happening in Israel in Bible times what we are seeing via symbolism in Zechariah is Israel believing the same way the church does today oh yes they think there are wicked people just can't be us and those who think that way are those grains in the apha and the lead lid prevents them from escaping from seeing their own sin's wickedness despite having God's word that gives them all his commands and rules Divine Justice is coming in the future for those who think that way just as it did for the Israelites who thought similarly so if you want to get a good mental illustration of a certain oft qued passage in a revelation to see how it applies directly to God worshippers of every elk then picture zechariah's apab basket as the end times container and the Gathering Place of the wicked as I read this to you yet again from Revelation 18145 then I heard another voice out of Heaven saying my people come out of her so that you will not share in her sins so that you will not be inflicted infected by her plagues for her sins are a sticky Mass piled up to heaven and God has remembered her crimes see the only way any of us come out of that AA basket that is destined for justice is first to recognize and confess our Wicked condition and our aor filled doctrinal beliefs then second we have to consciously heed God's call to come out of her leaving all that sin and heresy behind us regardless of the personal cost well moving to verse n Zechariah 59 says I raised my eyes and saw two women coming with the wind in their wings for they had wings like those of a stor they lifted that apha up between the Earth and the sky okay next we read that the basket was flown away to shinar by these female wied creatures where a shrine or a temple would be built to it why are these winged creatures specifically female well there's nothing definite to indicate why that is humanlike winged creatures are usual fair in the Bible cherubim are perhaps the closest mental picture to these two female creatures however the winged cherubim are decidedly depicted as male in the Bible so these two creatures cannot be cherubs now I lean towards them not being any more real than the woman in the basket but are only invented figures for use of symbols if they are real they are certainly Heavenly Creatures sent by God but we we can know no more some commentators want to draw a connection between the figure and the basket as being a woman and the winged creatures as being female perhaps there is a connection but none I can discern now let's return for a few minutes to the woman in the basket again remembering the effect this symbol would have uh on 6th Century BC Israelite Minds see theirs was still a world full of gods and goddesses and shrines and Priests and Prophets of all kinds and a world full of people including most Israelites who still worshiped those many gods and goddesses it's only that Israel had but one God whose name was yov now stay with me because how technical it serves to explain more about what's being depicted and how we're to understand it okay in Hebrew the word that's used here for wickedness is Hara and it means the wickedness or the evil not simply wickedness the wickedness that's the name of the woman that's her name it characterizes her and is the opposite of righteousness and importantly of the 13 times it's used in Scripture it always has some connection to idolatry so a good way to think of the meaning of of hara is wickedness that is associated with idolatry and to God idolatry is the Supreme wickedness now because the figure in the apha is a woman then in the Pagan God systems she represents a goddess and chief among all goddesses is Ishtar the fertility goddess that is married to Baal she is also known in the Bible such as in Jeremiah as the Queen of Heaven a direct link to the cult of Ishtar Jeremiah was very concerned about this cult having gained a foothold in Judah during the time of the Kings therefore in verse 10 when the interpreting Angel is asked by Zechariah where it was that the Epal with the woman in it was being flown to the response was to build a shrine in the land of shinar shrines or temples were for gods and goddesses so indeed the woman in the basket must have been symbolic of a goddess thus again symbolically wickedness in the form of idolatry is being returned to the place it comes from shinar or in later Bible times and on through the end times it is called Babylon Babylon throughout the Old and New Testaments stands for the chaos and the confusion that idolatry brings with it and with this knowledge let's have scripture make another connection for us listen to Genesis 10 8-10 Kush fathered Nimrod who was the first powerful ruler on Earth and he was a mighty Hunter before ad andai and this is why people say like Nimrod a mighty Hunter before ad andai his kingdom began with Babylon ere akad and Kal in the land of shanar here we see the infamous Nimrod an adversary of God an idolator on a grand scale he's the source or rather he's the founder of the land of shinar and is also historically credited as a forefather of the Pagan God systems of Mesopotamia shinar was eventually called Babylon and here in Zechariah the goddess of fertility that represents Wicked idolatry is being taken back to her place of origin to a shrine erected for her in Babylon this is where she belongs she does not belong in Israel and interestingly in the Torah the scapegoat ritual that is observed on Yung kapor does the same thing one of the two scapegoats is loaded up with the sin and iniquity for all Israel and set out to a desert demon called AEL symbolizing sin being packaged up and returned to its demonic Source the bottom line is this this symbolic scene has the idolatress being separated from the righteous of God's people then being gathered up in order to be sent away to the kingdom of the ungodly to be lorded over over by the fertility goddess Ishtar now I've have spoken to you since the first Torah class teaching in the Book of Genesis that a most basic God principle is that yahovah deals with people and Nations by means of division election and separation that is what is happening here Yeshua came to do the same only from a different perspect perspective and as much as we all cringe at what we see happening within the church within our nations with our politics the polarization of our societies into distinct prog good versus anti-god factions leads the way this process has made highly visible the god principle of the division of election and separation the righteous and the wicked are being gathered into two groups then the two groups are being separated further apart at a slow pace until Yeshua returns to administer Divine justice as warranted to each group well let's move on to chapter six pick your Bibles up again open up to chapter six again I raised my eyes and I saw in front of me four chariots coming out from between two mountains the mountains were mountains of bronze the first Chariot had red horses the second Chariot black horses the third Chariot white horses the fourth Chariot spotted gray horses and I asked the angel speaking with me what are these my Lord the angel answered me these are the Four Winds of the sky that go out after presenting themselves before the Lord of all the land the one with the black horses is going out toward the toward the land in the north the white horses have gone out after them and the spot it have gone out towards the land in the south then the gray ones went out and were seeking to go and wander throughout the whole earth when he said wander throughout the whole earth and they did wander throughout the whole earth then he called out to me and said look the ones going to the land in the north have given my spirit rest in the North Country this message from Adon came to me take gifts from the Exiles of helai Toya Yoda who have arrived from Babel then you go to the house of uh yosiah the son of Sephia take silver and gold make crowns put one on the head of yosua the son of jehos the Coen hagadol the high priest and tell him adona o says there is coming a man whose name is Zach he will Sprout up from this place and rebuild the Temple of Adonai yes he will rebuild the Temple of Adonai and he will take up Royal Splendor sitting and ruling from his throne there will be a Cohen priest before his throne and they will accept each other's advice in complete Harmony the other crowns will be for Helm tovya yya anden the son of sanna then they are to be kept as a memorial in the temple of Adonai those who are now far away will come and help rebuild the Temple of Adonai then you will know that is Adan o who sent me to you and it would all come about provided you heed carefully what Adan your God says now the vision of the four chariots is the seventh one and all of zechariah's vision oracles have so far occurred in one night biblically four represents universality that is like the four compus directions it represents the entirety and extent of the earth chariots are by Nature used for war they are not used for scouting out and Reporting information they are sent out for the purpose of taking action now most Scholars wish to equate these four chariots with the four horses of named colors in the first Vision now I'm I'm troubled by this line of thinking because only three of those horses were set out to roam the Earth so while there are Sim similarities it is simply not scripturally accurate to tightly connect the first and seventh Visions merely because they both employed horses at least it's certainly not accurate from the standpoint of the number of horses sent out by God to do something now if we hope to find some kind of a connection between the first and the seventh Visions it is probably this each has God doing something to demonstrate his Universal interest and sovereignty he has led over all the Earth not parts of it the many Pagan God systems each Associated to a certain Nation more or less claim territorial Authority only over certain parts of the globe but not all because each God system recognizes the validity and sovereignty of the others Empire empire Builders of course aspire to expanding that influence and Authority the Israelite God's claim to be inherently Sovereign over the entire planet was itself a call for confrontation as far as other nations were concerned now I suspect that this will be the foundational cause of the many nations of the world coming to battle Israel at Armageddon see it's not that these nations will all join in a strategic Alliance and fellowship with one another rather it is that they will gather at a common place against a common enemy mostly in their separate interests to establish and demonstrate their individual National Independence and Authority on Earth by confronting a God that says otherwise just as Nimrod openly challenge God's authority over it so will the Nations do the same in the war to end all wars now in the first Vision Gods sent out three Horsemen at night to stealthily scout out the Earth like a Divine CIA and in the seventh vision of chapter 6 God sends out four chariots to take action on the earth like an Unstoppable Imperial Army now these two events symbolically send the message of Yo's total knowledge and control over the Affairs of humanity but also that despite the nation's governments believing that they were each independent and in control of their own destiny in fact they existed and operated only by God's permission and when they have gone too far he will destroy them now the meaning of the different colors of the horses pulling the four chariots has been much debated and some quite creative explanations have been put forth but none nothing convincing just just as with the horses of the first Vision I also can find no significant meaning behind the horse colors listed in the seventh Vision other than it is merely to help identify them one from the other there are also a number of commentators who question the meaning of the number of Chariots by saying they each represent God's dealing with one or another of the series of four World empires in history again unconvincing since there have been more than four so-called World Empires to come and go and depending on how ones to Define it and in truth none of them ever Incorporated but a part of the entire world even of the extent of the known world as it was in the 6th Century BC let alone the entire world most of which was unknown to them at that time still in verse one we read that these four ch chariots come from between two mountains now the important thing to see here that is that there is a definite place and a direction from which the four chariots are sent out and what we learn and the next several verses is the Chariots are sent out from where yo resides on Earth this is explained in verse 5 to the far away Northlands also Al the Southlands now these mountains made of brass are yet another symbolic element for which there are a few different interpretations some commentators find these mountains are as not stemming from anything real but rather as just more invented symbolic elements for instance mountains in the ancient near and far east typically represented political entities governments Kings they also represented the Abode of the gods and goddesses they were always on the highest geographical places therefore other scholars believe that these two mountains are based on Eastern mythology probably more specifically Su God mythology on the other hand some academics think these two mountains are identifiable as actual places and I agree with that but in no way can the can they be part of any former or current mythological God system because it is clear from chapter 6 that it is from the Hebrew God's Earthly Abode which is Jerusalem that the Chariots are being sent out so which two mountains are these exactly well my way of thinking they can only be Mount Mariah and the Mount of Olives which sit opposite one another another and they are separated by the valley of Jehoshaphat in the city of God's presence Jerusalem Jehoshaphat means Jehovah judges or perhaps yov is the judge and indeed it will be from there that God sends forth his judgments his justice as symbolized by the for chariots upon the Nations therefore it only makes sense that the Chariots are being descent from between Mount Mariah and the Mount of Olives meaning from the valley of Jehoshaphat the place of judging but why mountains of bronze because in that era bronze represented something firm and indestructible never would God's abod get moved to Someplace Else by the will of humans Jerusalem is the capital of his Earthly Kingdom and it will always be so now to my friends in the traditional Church who are listening and watching I pray that neither you nor your congregational leadership nor your denomination is one that supports dividing Jerusalem into independent Muslim and Jewish sides thereby making it the capital of two religions for what is seen as the sake of fairness and even-handedness the Bible tells us over and over including in the New Testament that Jerusalem is Israel's forever capital and God's forever Earthly dwelling place for anyone to determine to split God's holy city and give part of it to a false god named Allah is is the height of self-destructive Folly it's Rebellion it is idolatry to think that two temples to two different gods erected upon the Temple Mount and y's designated holy city are going to be acceptable to him is only possible if one has no real Bible knowledge or one simply doesn't believe that the Bible is our source of divine truth and therefore need not be our guy for guide for our choices and our Behavior so beware ancient Israel attempted such things and they were thrown out of their land severely punished and came not far from Extinction on more than one occasion and in this Yeshua will not be rescuing you should you join with such blasphemies well in verse four Zechariah reveals his lack of understanding of what it is he's seeing so he asked the interpreting Angel what are these my Lord now as a reminder although many bibles capitalize the word Lord meaning to imply that this Angel is actually Jesus that is simply incorrect rather the word is adone and it is a generic and broadly used Hebrew word of respect and it means something like sir unlike in earlier Visions when Zechariah asks the same question this time the angel doesn't respond with don't you know what these are instead he straight away gives Zechariah the answer he says these are the Four Winds of the sky that go out now while that is what the complete Jewish Bible and a few other versions say other versions say these are the Four Winds of heaven and in context I think Heaven is more correct in the Ancients way of thinking there was a fuzzy line between sky and Heaven A above their heads was Heaven where the clouds moved by the Stars hung and the top of Heaven is where God lived there were minor variations of that understanding but this well expresses how they thought of it further notice that the Hebrew word rot which is the plural of R and what is used here for winds also means Spirits so this helps us to see the mindset of these ancients about the invisible but powerful qualities of wind and spirit being connected in some mysterious way thus when the angel says these chariots are the Four Winds of Heaven this could be equally as well translated as the four spirits of Heaven now armed with this understanding we get a great example of how this thinking works in the psalm of David in Psalm 104 bless yov my soul yov my God you are very great you are clothed with glory and Majesty wrapped in light as with a robe you spread out the heavens like a curtain you laid the beams of your Palace on the water you make the clouds your ch chariots you ride on the wings of the wind you make winds your Messengers fiery Flames your servants see while this is poetry don't think that these words are not reflections of how David and those before him and after him thought about the operation of heaven and clouds and winds and so on thus the idea is that these four chariots are as invisible as wind and spirit they're powerful they are Heavenly and sores and they have fast free and easy range over the entire Earth Heaven and Earth being yehovah's realm and the two operating in some mysterious tandem back to verse five the first half says that the Chariots are the Four Winds of Heaven the last half says that they go out after presenting themselves to the lord of the land since the only Earthly Abode of the lord of the land is Jerusalem and here as in most places in the Bible lord of the land is referring to the lord of the land of Israel as opposed to the Lord of all the Earth then this is where we have confirmed that the Chariots are being sent out from Jerusalem verse six says where the Chariots are being sent and it explains it by pointing to the color of the horses pulling each Chariot however the verse is problematic because only three of the four are mentioned we're told that the black horse or horses is sent to the Northlands the dappled to the Southlands the white horse is not given a Direction so some translations uh word it such that the White Horse follows the black horse towards the Northlands this seems mostly unlikely so some Scholars say that there was a copious eror in the transmission of the ancient text and it should say that the white horse with its Chariot went to the West nice attempt but that's pure speculation backed up by no evidence but also notice the fourth Horus the red one is not mentioned at all and again some Scholars say this was the copi error but there is no evidence for such a conclusion other than the scholar assuming that surely all four chariots dispersed into the four Compass directions and that is possible so of the two directions that are given the North and the South who or what might this represent once again we must always unpack this from the mind of a 6th Century BC Israelite and not from how we view the world today for Israel the north was mesop Mesopotamia and Asia and more specifically this is the land beyond the Euphrates river that during Israelite history has alternately been governed primarily ly by Babylon and Assyria should Persia be included in this only in the sense that Persia conquered Babylon and took over the Empire however they were largely beneficent rulers over Judah and so wasn't so much looked at as an arch enemy to the South was Egypt where that nation was alternately an enemy and a friend but primarily an enemy verse seven throws a curveball at us and it has been most difficult to decipher it to any level of confidence the complete Jewish Bible says it this way then the gray ones went out and were seeking to go and wander throughout the whole earth when he said wander throughout the whole earth and they did wander throughout the whole earth the nas version says when the strong ones went out they were eager to go Patrol the Earth and he said go Patrol the Earth so they patrolled the Earth the RSV version says when the steeds came out they were impatient to get off and Patrol the Earth and he said go Patrol the Earth so they patrolled the Earth see the same Hebrew word is being translated to English as gray ones strong ones and steeds now that's quite a variation various other Bible versions say something along these lines but with further deviations a solution was offered by Eric Myers that I think has Merit the word that is translated variously as dappled gray even steeds is the Hebrew berim not knowing for certain what this color is most translators going back at least a thousand years decided it was some mix of colors Meer says that perhaps we ought not to think of it as a color but rather as a pattern like spotted striped plaid speaks in terms of a pattern or a collection of colors rather than a specific color and furthermore the the word amim immediately follows beim and amim means something like strong ones or the mighty now possibly these two words were meant to be used together as an expression that essentially means a collective a conglomerate of Mighty ones if this proposal is correct it does make more sense when we read it and it dismisses the most popular acade academic idea that the verse was corrupted at some point in history to summarize the idea is that these horses and chariots are collectively referred to as steeds or strong ones and they're all being sent out the black is specifically sent North a conglomerate of them South and the white toward some other unspecified direction or directions the bottom line for us is not to get hung up about which color of horse went where if we stick with the passages as we have them today what we can know is that only two directions were specifically called out the North and the South and that the North and the South are in geographical relation to Jerusalem's location north and south are D are the directions from where Israel's enemies have attacked them over the centuries and no doubt this will maintain right through the end times well let's talk now about another important Nuance In this passage verse 7 also characterizes the level of vigor of the Chariots and the horses going out the complete Jewish Bible says they were seeking to go out then n as says they were eager to go out the RSV says they were impatient to go out there's nothing definitive enough for us to convincingly draw a conclusion about the intensity of the horse's desire to go out yet context always matters the nature and purpose of War chariots is violence and aggression in zechariah's First Vision it speaks of the horses being sent out stealthily and quietly to scout out the Earth to gain information so in that case characterizing them as roaming or wandering that makes good sense War chariots don't roam War chariots attack with intensity so it seems to me that it is self-evident that these horses with their chariots were indeed eager impatient to do what they were designed and destined to do that's the better way to understand it they were chomping it the bit so to speak to be sent out to make war now I've had so many questions asked of me and I wondered internally why doesn't God find a better way to deal with humans than War since he is said to be a loving God that values peace in life why is it it seems that in the history of mankind wars and rumors of wars never end except for the briefest of moments my conclusion is this God determined from the moment of creation to use humans to bring about his will on this Earth and humans are War oriented by the nature and Down To Us by the Fallen Adam and Eve the sad reality is that all major disagreements among nations and large people groups have throughout the ages ultimately been settled by War over a century ago 1920 as a result of the horrors of World War I governments of the Western World worked to form what became known as the League of Nations ultimately 63 Nations became part of it the goal was to find a different way than catastrophic Wars to settle the differences between nations it was still in operation when the largest War to ever be fought on this planet erupted World War II clearly even with the best of intentions they were unable to achieve their goal at the end of World War II a new entity named the United Nations was formed in 1945 to try again the UN and the League of Nations lived side by side but eventually the League of Nations withered away clearly the United Nations even with all its clout has also failed miserably to prevent Wars and today the world has more and worse Wars going on everywhere that it has in many decades perhaps more than ever the reason for this is frustratingly simple war is in man's nature because evil is fundamental to man's nature and as long as evil exists war will exist and it will remain as the means to settle differences between nations we even read in the Bible of war in the heavenlies again that is because evil opposition to God's will exists there as well I mean thus every humanistic effort by man to end Wars for Good Will Fail now ironically even a war is required to end all wars Armageddon must happen as Yeshua returns to lead that battle and even then it's not truly the end to war or evil as we learn in the prophets towards the end of the Thousand-Year reign of Christ a rebellion will erupt in God's kingdom but it'll be put down quickly and then at that time sat the demons and the human evil inclination will be brought to an end by means of a ruthless warlike destruction of All Creatures spiritual or physical who still Harbor evil and this time it'll be once and for all believers as we continue in Zechariah and as we have read of God's War chariots being sent out throughout the Earth and as we'll read more about the conflations of the end times let us understand this all in the perspective that Yeshua told us to have before he departed this Earth in Matthew 24 starting at verse six he said this you will hear the noise of Wars nearby the news of Wars far off see to it that you don't become frightened such things must happen but the end is yet to come for peoples will fight each other nations will fight each other there will be famines earthquakes in various parts of the world and all this is but the beginning of the birth pains at that time you will be arrested handed over to be punished put to death All Peoples will hate you because of me at that time many will be trapped and to betraying and hating each other many false prophets will appear full many people and many people's love will grow cold because of increased distance from Torah but whoever holds out till the end will be delivered and this good news about the kingdom will be announced throughout the whole world as a witness to all the to all the Gentiles it is then that the end will come so when you see the Abomination that causes Devastation spoken about through the prophet Danielle standing in the Holy place let the reader understand the illusion that will be the time for those in Judah to escape to the hills if someone's on the roof he must not go down to gather his belongings from his house if someone's in the field he must not turn back to get his coat what a terrible time it will be for pregnant women and nursing mothers pray that you will not have to escape in winter are on Shabbat for there will be trouble then worse than there has ever been from the beginning of the world until now and there will be nothing like it again indeed if the length of this time had not been limited no one would survive but for the sake of those who have been chosen its length will be limited at that time if someone says to you look here's the Messiah or there he is don't believe him for there will appear false Messiahs and false prophets performing great Miracles amazing things so as to fool even the chosen if possible there I have told you in advance all right we'll continue in Zechariah Chapter 6 next time for more teachings of real Bible study and to ReDiscover God's word with Tom Bradford visit Torah class today on the web streaming TV or download the Torah class mobile app