Satisfaction with the public performance of our leaders is declining speedily. Let's take this concept a little further and apply it as the theme of our passage in Zechariah today. We have here in these verses an oracle commanded to Zechariah for passage to the people. One of my commentators suggests that the term oracle means a heavy burden. To draw out the Hebrew implications of the term what we have here is the prophetic equivalent to the task of the young man in our children's story.
Someone has to tell the truth to deliver the people from the con artists.
None of the natural leaders of that fictional kingdom are responsible enough to admit the nonsense of it all. In this oracle, the Lord's hand is heavy upon the leadership of Israel. What we as Christians see here obviously are references to the coming of Jesus Christ. This prophetic passage will trip up the wisdom of the worldly who do not see our Christ. This was the burden laid heavily upon the prophet Zechariah.