young, and so Zechariah was raised by his grandfather, Iddo.
When permission was finally granted by Darius for the Jews to rebuild the temple, the Jews were not zealous to do so, and so the "restoration" prophets began their exhortations. Haggai and Zerubbabel began expressing their visions to the Jews, as did Zechariah. Zechariah has a touching, merciful prophecy: "Thus saith the Lord of Hosts: return to Me, and I will return to you" (Zech 1:3). Once Meyer has described the content of Zechariah's message, he begins to apply it to contemporary society: "There never yet was a backslider for whose return the infinite God did not yearn, and after whom it did not send messages like this (Meyer 14).
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