God Really Is at Work, So Fulfill Your Role

Review

(1:1-6) Theme of the Book: It’s time to repent

(1:7–6:8) Eight visions revealing God’s big picture plan for what will be in the end. “Chiastic structure”: Visions push forward to the central components in chs. 3–4

A. (1:7-17) 1st Vision: God remembers His plan (reconnaissance horses report of peaceful earth)

B. (1:18-21) 2nd Vision: God remembers His scheme for history (four horns and four craftsmen)

B. (2:1-13) 3rd Vision: God remembers His promises that His relationship with them will facilitate a relationship between God and the nations (Measuring Man measures Jerusalem)

C. (3:1-10) 4th Vision: God will accomplish His promises through the Angel of the Lord who is the atonement-offering Priest-King (Joshua’s clothes)

C. (4:1-14) 5th Vision: God will accomplish His promises through His authority-exercising King-Priest (lampstand, bowl, and olive trees)

B. (5:1-4) 6th Vision: God refines His people through judgment (flying scroll)

B. (5:5-11) 7th Vision: God prepares for future Babylon (woman in a basket)

A. (6:1-8) 8th Vision: Four chariots

(6:9-15) Application of the Book: Obey

Theme: God really is at work to fulfill His agenda, so fulfill your role in His agenda.

1. (6:1-8) Chariots of God’s Wrath Sent to Fulfill His Agenda

2. (6:9-15) God Will Fulfill His Agenda, So Fulfill Your Role in His Agenda