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should associate them with the four horse-drawn chariots seen in
the vision. Also, though, the four chariots are the four winds of
heaven, which have already been identified as God’s holy people
in 2:6. That being the case, the bronze mountains, the pillars
Jachin and Boaz, should also be people, and who else can they
be in context but Joshua the High Priest and Zerubbabel the
Prince? The chariots run out to cleanse and convert the world.
The sequence of renewal in Zechariah’s Night Visions is as
follows:

1. The people must repent of moral wickedness and set aside
all known sin.

2. Then, the people must tear down false worship (altars) and
rebuild the worship of God. (To reverse #1 and 2 is liturgi-
cal pharisaism. )
3. When this happens, God will be a wall of fire for His peo-
ple; and the numbers of the righteous will increase.
4. Then God will pass judgment on their behalf, and will glo-
rify His Church. David’s wilderness camp will move to
Jerusalem. Humble Bible-believing churches will meet in
cathedrals.
5. As this happens, God will give them a God-fearing king, a
Zerubbabel.
6. The effect of such a renewal will be that God will also ex-
pose hidden degeneracy. A more thorough cleansing will
come.
7. When the impenitent see this, they will depart, and thus
wickedness will be further removed from the land.
8. Finally, God will enable the Gospel to go forth with power
to shake up and convert the world.

Conclusion
The Restoration is the least familiar and least studied phase
of Old Covenant history. It is often assumed that the Kingdom
of God went into the doldrums during this period, and that the
people simply suffered until the coming of Messiah. Such an
understanding of the post-exilic era utterly fails to do justice to
the case. The Restoration was actually a far more glorious time