How John Created the Zechariah Draft (ZrD)

In this illustration the left two columns represent the order and process in which John dealt with the EID wax tablets shown on Ezekiel-Isaiah Draft. The right column represents how the wax tablets were moved to satisfy the content found in the left column. At this point in the construction, the bulk of Ezekiel is arranged in the order that we find in the Revelation today.

The Order and Process John Moved the Wax Tablets

The Tablets John Moved or Used

Z1 Whom they have pierced they shall mourn (Zech 12:10; Rev 1:9)

John began a new wax tablet with Zechariah 12:10 at the beginning.

Z2 The Oratories to God's people

John conflated the wax tablets EP2 and IP2 to form the template to the letters of the seven churches.

John took the whole wax tablet IP6 and a phrase in IP7 as the first unique content for the seven churches.

EP2 Ezekiel's Mission

IP2 Isaiah's Mission

IP6 Jesus as Eliakim

IP7 Tyre and Jesus as a certain king.

Z3 The Coronation of Joshua the High Priest (Zech 6:9-15; Rev 4:1 - 5:14)

John conflated both Ezekiel’s and Isaiah’s experience in heaven and then adds the coronation of Jesus.

EP1 Ezekiel's Experience in Heaven

IP1 Isaiah's Experience in Heaven

Z4 The Four Chariots and the Four Winds (Zech 6:1-8; Rev 6:1-8; 8:7 - 9:21)

John took the two wax tablets (EP4, IP4) and made IP4 the four chariots and appended EP4 afterwards making it the four winds.

IP4 The Judgments by Jesus

EP4 The Judgment by the Nations

Z5 A Woman in the Basket (Zech 5:5-11; Rev 12:1-17; 17:1-18)

John took the pregnant woman and the harlot and made them both the city of Jerusalem. The pregnant woman represented righteousness and the harlot represented wickedness. He then constructed a simple parallel between the two.

IP3 The New Seed (Jesus as the Child)

IP7 Tyre and Jesus as a Certain King

Z6 The Flying Scroll (Zech 5:1-4; Rev 10:1-11)

John split the scroll from EP1(Ezek 2:8 - 3:3) leaving a portion in the coronation of Jesus scene and moving the rest to this location.

EP1 Ezekiel and the Scroll

IP7 Tyre and Jesus as a Certain King

Z7 Jerusalem will be Blessed, Joshua the High Priest, and the Two Anointed (Zech 2:1 - 4:15; Rev 11:1 - 12:17)

John took the wax tablets (EP3, EP5, IP3, IP5) and creatively infused Zechariah 2:1 - 4:15 to form the 42 month, 1,260 day, 3½ day parallel.

EP3 Ezekiel Appointed as a Watchman		IP3 The New Seed

EP5 The Glory of God Flees Jerusalem		IP5 Babylon Pursues God's Glory

Z8 The Four Horns (Zech 1:18-20; Rev 16:1 - 18:19)

John made the four horns by copying the four winds from EP4 and changing them from affecting a third to affecting all.

EP4 Judgment by the Nations (Copied and changed 'third' to 'all')

EP6 Jerusalem the Harlot

Z9 The Return Home (1:1-17; Rev 18:20 - 20:15)

John used Zechariah 1:1-17 to tell the following stories:

God, after 70 years is angry with the nations (Zech 1:12, IP7, EP8, IP).
God’s cities will once again flow with prosperity (1:17, EP9, IP9, EP10, IP10).
God calls his son to return to him (Zech 1:3; EP8).

EP7 Tyre

IP7 Tyre and Jesus, as a Certain King

EP8 God Slays the Great Dragon		IP8 Jesus Slays the Great Dragon

EP9 Attacked by Gog and Magog		IP9 Jerusalem Attacked by the Nations

IP10 The Holy City of Jerusalem

EP10 The City of God

The four horsemen were a formed by conflating and modernizing, to John, Ezekiel 5:16-7; Isa 27:1; Zech 6:1-8). The actions of three of the four horsemen came from Ezek 5:16-7, the color of the horses come from Zech 6:1-8 and instead of chariots, John changed them to horses since chariots were outdated weaponry in John' time.

Ezekiel-Isaiah	Zechariah	Revelation
God will send evil arrows of famine (Ezek 5:16).	A chariot with white horses (Zech 6:3).	And behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow [implies arrows]. A crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer (Rev 6:2).
He had a great sword (Isa 27:1).	A chariot with red horses (Zech 6:2).	Another came out, a red horse. To him who sat on it was given power to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another. There was given to him a great sword (Rev 6:4).
I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread (Ezek 5:16).	A chariot with black horses (Zech 6:2).	Behold, a black horse, . . . . [Food is extremely expensive] (Rev 6:6).
By sword, wild animals, disease(Ezek 5:17).	A chariot with speckled horses (Zech 6:3).	Behold, a rider of a pale horse . . . . Authority . . . to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him (Rev 6:8).

The table below shows how John took the story of Eliakim and made it the core of the message to the church in Philadelphia. The primary imagery such as a key that opens doors that are closed and closes doors that are open can be seen in both passages (Isa 22:22; Rev 3:7-8). The imagery of nails on the wall in God's temple (Isa 22:23-4) will become the saints as pillars in God's temple (Rev 3:12).

Isaiah 22:20-25	Revelation 3:7-13
22:20 It will happen in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, 22:21 and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. 22:22 I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open. 22:23 I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house. 22:24 They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers. 22:25 “In that day,” says Yahweh of Armies, “the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down, and fall. The burden that was on it will be cut off, for Yahweh has spoken it.”	3:7 “To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things: 3:8 “I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name. 3:9 Behold, I give some of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie. Behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. 3:10 Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. 3:11 I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown. 3:12 He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name. 3:13 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.