12 And the Angel of the Lord answered and said: Lord Almighty! How long will You not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which You have been angry for these seventy years? (The priests of Judaism have lost their apologists in the person of the “chosen people”, and therefore they influence the prophets, with the goal that the prophets influence the “chosen ones” in order to return them to the fold of the “true” religion, which has been going on for 70 years, in fact The Babylonian captivity, even for those who were taken away for the first time in 597 BC, lasted not 70, but 58 years: from 597 to 539 BC).
13 Then in answer to the angel who spoke to me, the Lord spoke good words, words of comfort. (Mr. God, that is, the secret priest-hypnotist, “broadcasts”).
14 And the angel who spoke with me said to me: Proclaim and say: Thus says the Lord of hosts: I was jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with great jealousy; (The transmission of words from the Lord God comes through his messenger angel; the Lord of Hosts, just like an ordinary person, became jealous. This means that the so-called Lord God did not know that this would happen, and if he knew, then this is a show performance!) .
15 And I am indignant with great indignation against the nations that live in peace; for when I was little angry, they increased the evil. (Mr. God expresses purely human qualities and emotions: indignation, anger, jealousy. This means that this is an ordinary angry person! The believers left him without food, so he went away).
16 Therefore thus says the Lord: I turn to Jerusalem with mercy; My house will be built in it, says the Lord of hosts, and a surveying line will stretch across Jerusalem. (In the book, the teaching is presented in the form of apocalyptic visions. They contain all the necessary attributes of the apocalypse: four horsemen announce the fall of evil and the exaltation of the righteous, four broken horns symbolize the destruction of the enemies of Israel, the appearance of a husband with a surveying rope predicts the restoration of Jerusalem, a golden lamp with two olives emphasizes the special significance of the rank of king and priest in the kingdom of the messiah; the flying scroll is identified with the eradication of sin in the kingdom of the messiah).
17 Proclaim again and say: Thus says the Lord of hosts: My cities will again overflow with good things, and the Lord will comfort Zion, and will choose Jerusalem again. (Jerusalem and its main hill Zion will again restore their power).
18 And I lifted up my eyes and saw, behold, four horns. (How could it be without horns!).
19 And I said to the angel who spoke with me: What is this? And he answered me: These are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem. (The two pairs of horns symbolize Egypt and Babylon.)
20 Then the Lord showed me four workmen. (The Angel and the Lord show and say something, just like ordinary people).
21 And I said, “What are they going to do?” He told me this: these horns have scattered Judas, so that no one can lift up his head; and these came to frighten them, to knock down the horns of the nations, who lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it. (The workers will destroy other people’s horns. Their horns are knocked off – apparently, a hint of Darius’s suppression of the uprising in these countries. Now their peoples are at peace. And Yahweh, that is, the top of Judaism, is still without his “home”. This is the concern of the Judaic priests ).
Chapter 2
1 And again I lifted up my eyes and saw: behold, a man with a surveying rope in his hand. (The surveying rope symbolized the restoration of ownership of the lands).
2 I asked: where are you going? and he said to me: measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what is its length. (For measuring Jerusalem).