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Book Of Zechariah

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The first part of the book of Zechariah is about different visions he had in which all the visions are prophesied by an angel and not by God. In the first visions he sees an angel and a man riding a horse in which God says that he is going to choose the city of Jerusalem again. In the second vision he sees four horns and four workmen. In the third he sees a man measuring Jerusalem because God is going to come and there will be glorious again. In the four visions he sees Joshua and Satan because God will come and forgive the sins of Jerusalem. In the fifth vision he sees and the lampstand and olive trees. In a seventh vision he sees a woman in a basket Finally, in the last vision he saw the horses that walked the earth.
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I think this is an important lesson because when we do not hear what others are trying to tell us sometime we make different kinds of mistakes and the person, we did not hear is disappointed in us because he or she tried to help us. Also, this relates to me because when I was playing a tennis match and my coach was trying to tell how to play better so that I could improve my game and win, but I did not listen because I thought would not need his advice so I kept playing in the same way I was playing before his advice and I lost the game, that day my coach was really disappointed on me and I felt very bad because I should have listened to him.
The traditional author of the book is Zechariah, but scholars do not know who is the academic author of the book. Although the academics say that there are two authors who wrote Zechariah so they divide the book in first Zechariah and second Zechariah, because the two different parts of Zechariah show two different points of view in different topics. Also another theory says that second Zechariah uses resources of other books like Deuteronomy and

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