We don't always know of God's complete plans
Zechariah's vision of the four horsemen (Zechariah 6:1-8), engraving by Gustave Doré. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) “For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua ; upon one stone shall be seven eyes....his seven lamps....those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.” ( Zechariah 3:9 ; 4:2, 10) All of the visions among the myrtle trees promise a future in which the Lord rules the world from Jerusalem . Each of the visions also speak of angelic and God-ordained agencies that are used throughout history to accomplish His will. Those insights also bring serious questions about the nature of God ’s sovereignty. What is the need for horsemen that walk “to and fro”? What about the “eyes of the LORD”? Assuming that the lamps and the candlestick and the olive trees are pictures of God-ordained human involvement (as other Bible passages would confirm), what roles would they play? There is obviously much that we do not know about the hea