I looked up again, and there before me were four chariots coming out from between two mountains—mountains of bronze. The first chariot had red horses, the second black, the third white, and the fourth dappled—all of them powerful. I asked the angel who was speaking to me, “What are these, my lord?”
The angel answered me, “These are the four spirits of heaven, going out from standing in the presence of the Lord of the whole world. The one with the black horses is going toward the north country, the one with the white horses toward the west, and the one with the dappled horses toward the south.”
When the powerful horses went out, they were straining to go throughout the earth. And he said, “Go throughout the earth!” So they went throughout the earth.
Then he called to me, “Look, those going toward the north country have given my Spirit rest in the land of the north.”
Zechariah 6:1-8 NIV
The eighth and final vision for our tired prophet. Since his name means “the LORD remembers,” let’s take a brief look back at the visions.
In the first vision, God tells Zechariah through an angel how He will comfort His people. In the second we learned God would lift up the heads of our exiles again. In the third, God shows His protective, fatherly love in describing His people as the apple of His eye and Himself as a wall of fire all around them.
Zechariah’s fourth vision showed the high priest, Jeshua, being accused by Satan in filthy clothes. And in the fifth, olive trees giving oil to a lampstand proved to our prophet the work would be accomplished only by the Spirit of the God of Angel Armies.
The sixth vision is of a scroll flying over the land, representing how God’s people had disobeyed His law. And the seventh featured Wickedness as a woman in a basket, banished to Babylon, away from God’s holy city.
Today’s vision is much like the first in that horses are sent throughout the earth. God would judge the enemies of His people, particularly Babylon (the land of the north), appeasing His wrath and giving His Spirit “rest”.
How poignant I am writing this on Good Friday.
The Day Jesus defeated the enemy once and for all.
The Day He willingly bore the wrath of God so we don’t have to.
The Day God’s perfect love and perfect justice collided on a cross.
I know one Rider of a white horse Who will be coming again.
Because of what happened on the third day, He truly is KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
And I just love His head will have many crowns.