Zechariah: A Theological Exposition of Sacred Scripture (Concordia Commentary | CC)

The Book of Zechariah is for everyone living in wreckage and ruin. God has called each of us to rebuild something. Just as God called Zechariah, let’s roll up our sleeves and start rebuilding. It takes planning, prayers, endurance, and great determination. It is not by might nor by power, but by God’s Holy Spirit that we rebuild the ruins. The wreckage can rise again!

This commentary approaches the Book of Zechariah by reading the book as literature, paying attention to the use of rhetoric as history, and understanding the surrounding events in the ancient Near East as theology. As R. Reed Lessing meticulously walks through the text of this Minor Prophet, understand how God does big things with small days and small people with their small stuff.

Each volume provides an original translation and meticulous grammatical analysis of the Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek text. Further light is shed on the passage from extrabiblical literature, ancient cultures, and archaeology. The author offers an exposition of the text’s meaning within its original historical context, highlights from its reception history, and a fresh theological interpretation that is eminently relevant today.

Authors are sensitive to the rich treasury of language, imagery, and themes that extend throughout Scripture from creation and the fall into sin to redemption, the return of Christ, and the eschaton. Attention is given to the biblical dialectics of Law and Gospel, sin and grace, death and new life, and the eschatological tension between the “now” and the “not yet” inaugurated by the arrival of the kingdom of God in Christ.

Finally, Scripture’s message is applied to the ongoing life of the church in terms of ministry, worship, proclamation of the Word, Baptism, the Lord’s Supper, confession of the faith, and worldwide mission—all in joyful anticipation of the life of the world to come.