We now come to our final lecture in this series on Zechariah’s visions. This lecture is entitled, “Climax of the Visions,” and it tells of the crowning of Joshua, and it’s to be found in Zechariah, chapter 6, and verses 9 to 16. In the eighth vision, we saw how God actively reigns over the earth, and the enemies of the Lord’s people will be destroyed. Some have described this new section, Zechariah 6, verses 9–15, as the ninth vision, but it is not a vision as such. It’s rather a symbolic acting out of a glorious truth. God commands the prophet to perform a symbolic action closely linked to the visions, building upon them, and yet focussing the faith of the Lord’s people on the coming Messiah. Men and women in Old Testament times were saved by looking forward in faith to the coming Messiah, just as we are saved by looking back in faith to our Lord Jesus Christ and his finished work for on Calvary’s cross.