The Lampstand, the Olive Trees, and Zerubbabel's Task
Zechariah 4:1-14
1The messenger who was speaking with me returned and awakened me, as when a man is awakened from his sleep.2He said to me, "What do you see?" And I said, "I have seen, and behold, a lampstand of gold, all of it, with its bowl on its top, and its seven lamps on it with seven castings for the lamps that are on its top."3And two olive trees on it, one on the right side of the bowl and one on its left side.4Then I answered and said to the messenger who was speaking with me, saying, "What are these, my lord?"5The messenger who was speaking with me answered and said to me, "Do you not know what these are?" And I said, "No, my lord."6Then he answered and said to me, saying, "This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel, saying, 'Not by might and not by power, but by my Spirit,' says the LORD of hosts."7"Who are you, O great mountain, before Zerubbabel? You will become a plain, and he will bring out the top stone with shouts of 'Grace, grace to it!'"8And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,9"The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will complete it; then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you."10"For who has despised the day of small things? They will rejoice and see the tin stone in Zerubbabel's hand. These seven are the eyes of the LORD, ranging through all the earth."11Then I answered and said to him, "What are these two olive trees on the right side of the lampstand and on its left side?"12And I answered a second time and said to him, "What are the two olive trees that are beside the two golden pipes emptying the gold from them?"13He said to me, "Do you not know what these are?" And I said, "No, my lord."14Then he said, "These are the two sons of the oil who stand by the Lord of all the earth."