“Behold a man with a measuring line.” The appearance of this man reveals that He is the angel of the Lord, the preincarnate Christ, the same one who appeared in the first vision as the rider on the red horse. You may wonder why I say that He is the angel of the Lord when Zechariah simply calls him a man. Well, Zechariah presents Him as a man (ish in Hebrew). In Chapter 6 verse 12 Zechariah will say, “Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH.” That is the branch