Sharper Iron From Kfuo Radio

The prophet continues to speak against those who have set their might against the LORD and His people. Through a parable and an action prophecy, the LORD commands Zechariah to be a shepherd to a flock that is doomed to slaughter. Because of their idolatrous past, the people of Israel had been sent into exile. The two staffs in the shepherd’s hands were broken, because Israel abandoned the LORD’s favor for them, and they annulled the brotherhood they had with each other by their faithlessness. They even considered the LORD’s word spoken among them to be worth nothing more than a slave. In the way Zechariah recites the history of Israel’s rebellion, he preaches concerning the coming suffering and death of Christ.  Rev. Jason Kaspar, pastor at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church in La Grange, TX, joins host Rev. Timothy Appel to study Zechariah 11:1-17.  "The Post-Exilic Prophets” is a series on Sharper Iron that goes through the books of Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. Through the preaching of these faithful me