Introduction
In chapter one, we are introduced to the Angel of the Lord, who intercedes on the behalf Jerusalem and Judah (1:12). The people of the land are called to repent and not imitate the ways of their forefathers who the Lord rejected from the land.
In chapter one we see the Lord’s Intervention against the gentile powers, the nations, who scatter the inhabitants of Jerusalem, In the vision of chapter one, God sends His carpenters his(craftsmen) against the nations, who oppose His people.
Call to Repentance
Zechariah 1
1 In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
2 “The Lord has been very angry with your fathers.
3 “Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Return to Me,” says the Lord of hosts, “and I will return to you,” says the Lord of hosts.
4 “Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets preached, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.” ‘ But they did not hear nor heed Me,” says the Lord.
5 “Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
6 Yet surely My words and My statutes, Which I commanded My servants the prophets, Did they not overtake your fathers? “So they returned and said: ‘Just as the Lord of hosts determined to do to us, According to our ways and according to our deeds, So He has dealt with us. Zechariah 1:1-6