17 Proclaim again and say: Thus says the Lord of hosts: My cities will again overflow with good things, and the Lord will comfort Zion, and will choose Jerusalem again. (Jerusalem and its main hill Zion will again restore their power).

18 And I lifted up my eyes and saw, behold, four horns. (How could it be without horns!).

19 And I said to the angel who spoke with me: What is this? And he answered me: These are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem. (The two pairs of horns symbolize Egypt and Babylon.)

20 Then the Lord showed me four workmen. (The Angel and the Lord show and say something, just like ordinary people).

21 And I said, “What are they going to do?” He told me this: these horns have scattered Judas, so that no one can lift up his head; and these came to frighten them, to knock down the horns of the nations, who lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it. (The workers will destroy other people’s horns. Their horns are knocked off – apparently, a hint of Darius’s suppression of the uprising in these countries. Now their peoples are at peace. And Yahweh, that is, the top of Judaism, is still without his “home”. This is the concern of the Judaic priests ).

Chapter 2

1 And again I lifted up my eyes and saw: behold, a man with a surveying rope in his hand. (The surveying rope symbolized the restoration of ownership of the lands).

2 I asked: where are you going? and he said to me: measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what is its length. (For measuring Jerusalem).

3 And now the Angel who spoke to me comes out, and another Angel comes to meet him, (a whole host of messenger angels).

4 And he said to this: Go quickly and tell this young man: Jerusalem will populate the surrounding area because of the multitude of people and livestock in it. (Angels broadcast through the prophet, and not directly; apparently, this angel received this information from circles close to the Persian court).

5 And I will be to him, says the Lord, a wall of fire around him, and I will be glorified in the midst of him. (The priests of Yahweh rejoice.)

6 Hey, hey! flee from the north country, says the Lord: for I have scattered you to the four winds of the heavens, says the Lord. (The Jews found themselves in a scattered position, as they were evicted from Israel and Judea, but now the priests of Judaism are calling for fleeing Babylonia – the “northern country”).

7 Save yourself, O Zion, who dwells among the daughters of Babylon. (Yahweh, that is, the knowledgeable elite of Judaism, undoubtedly means the Jews who did not want to leave Babylon and return to their homeland).

8 For thus says the Lord of hosts: For glory He sent Me to the nations that plundered you, for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye. (Yahweh protects his people and will take revenge on those nations who robbed the Jews).

9 And behold, I will lift up My hand against them, and they will become the prey of their servants, and then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me. (Retribution is inevitable!).

10 Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Zion! For, behold, I will come and dwell in your midst, says the Lord. (Yahweh will triumph).

11 And many nations will flee to the Lord in that day, and they will be My people; and I will dwell in your midst, and you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me to you. (Yahweh will triumph).

12 Then the Lord will take possession of Judah, His inheritance in the holy land, and will choose Jerusalem again. (Yahweh will triumph).

13 Let all flesh be silent before the Lord! For He rises from His holy habitation. (Yahweh will triumph).

Chapter 3

1 And he showed me Jesus the great priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to oppose him. (Priest (Greek) is the same as a priest. The Angel of the Lord is a supporter of the secret priest, Satan is the enemy of the secret priest).

2 And the Lord said to Satan: The Lord rebuke you, Satan; the Lord, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! is he not a brand plucked from the fire? (Mr. God and Satan “talk” like ordinary people).

3 Jesus was dressed in filthy clothes and stood before the Angel, (In visions, God, that is, the priest-hypnotist, appeared before Zechariah taking away sin from “his people,” their priests and leaders. In one of these visions, the high priest Jesus stood before God , but at the same time he was dressed in dirty clothes. The dirt on the clothes symbolized his vicious nature: the high priest of the Jerusalem temple had thoroughly stained himself with some unseemly actions, which caused attacks from his opponents).

4 who answered and said to those who stood before him, “Take off his filthy garments.” And he said to him: look, I have taken away your guilt and clothed you in ceremonial robes. (The hypnotist god replaced his soiled dress with sparkling formal attire.)

5 And he said, “Put a clean miter on his head.” And they placed a clean miter on his head and clothed him with clothing; The Angel of the Lord stood. (Kidar is the headdress of the Jewish high priest in the form of a turban made of fine linen, worn only on special occasions).