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The angel’s word was, “Knowest thou not what these are?”

“No, my lord”. He was honest;

‘No, I do not know’, But he wanted to know. “Not by might, nor

by power, but by my Spirit, saith Jehovah of hosts”. That is

fine! Read the books, but relate everything to the Spirit. Do not

just keep it all in your head or you will soon lose it. Oh, the

wonder of what the Spirit is doing in our day! We are coming to

the head-stone, we are coming to the glory of the finishing

time, the glory of what the assembly is for Christ, the truth of

sonship; these are finishing things. Would that our hearts

might become full of them.

And here is Zerubbabel, the great ruler. Typically, that is

Christ. “Who art thou, O great mountain? ... before Zerubbabel

thou dost become a plain”. It speaks of the greatness of the

power of Christ. And yet that blessed One, so great, is going

on with the day of small things.

“Who hath despised the day of small things?” I will tell you

something; the Lord does not despise the day of small things.

Let us not be discouraged, dear brethren. He has not lost His

power. He is still the Ruler. He is still the One who laid the

foundation, and He who laid it is going to finish it. “The hands

of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; and his

hands shall

finish it”. Wonderful! But as finishing it He is going on with the

day of small things, and He is finishing it in the day of small

things. That is a wonderful thing, that the day of the very

smallest things is not hindering the Lord in what He is doing.

What He is doing is in quality and in wondrous power and

glory and majesty.

Paul says in Ephesians 3, “that he (the Father) may give you

according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with

power by his Spirit in the inner man”. That is the resource of

this chapter in Zechariah. “That the Christ may dwell, through