Mercy-drops and Showers: Zechariah, Episode 5

The old Gospel song written by Civil War Veteran Daniel Webster Whittle includes the line,

“Showers of blessing, showers of blessing we need:

Mercy-drops round us are falling, but for the showers we plead.”

Those lines express the idea that while we are experiencing God’s blessing now, there is an even greater blessing that could lie before us, that for which we plead.

The Jewish people of Zechariah’s day who had returned from exile in Babylon to rebuild their temple in Jerusalem were experiencing God’s blessing, but the prophet challenges them to ask God for an even greater blessing as a nation,  not just mercy-drops, but showers of blessing.

Join us as we consider the prophet’s message in this fifth in the series of studies of Zechariah seven through eleven entitled, “Promises Made, Promises Kept,” a study we call “Mercy-drops and Showers.”

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