Zechariah, whose name means ‘God remembers’, was a postexilic prophet. That means he ministered to his Jewish people after they were released from their captivity in Babylon. In 538 BC Cyrus, king of Persia, the nation that had replaced Babylon as the dominant world power, granted freedom to the Jews. Exhilarated by their release and full of gratitude to God, the people wasted little time in tackling the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem. It wasn’t long, however, before