1. Then the angel who had been talking with me returned and woke me, as though I had been asleep.
2. “What do you see now?” he asked.I answered, “I see a solid gold lampstand with a bowl of oil on top of it. Around the bowl are seven lamps, each having seven spouts with wicks.
3. And I see two olive trees, one on each side of the bowl.”
4. Then I asked the angel, “What are these, my lord? What do they mean?”
5. “Don’t you know?” the angel asked.“No, my lord,” I replied.
6. Then he said to me, “This is what the lord says to Zerubbabel: It is not by force nor by strength, but by my Spirit, says the lord of Heaven’s Armies.
7. Nothing, not even a mighty mountain, will stand in Zerubbabel’s way; it will become a level plain before him! And when Zerubbabel sets the final stone of the Temple in place, the people will shout: ‘May God bless it! May God bless it!’”