Zechariah 2:5

"For I, saith Jehovah, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and I will be the glory in the midst of her."

As Ellis stated it. "This is one of the greatest texts of the Old Testament."[10] It is the Old Testament equivalent of the blessed promise of Jesus, "I will be with you always, even unto the end of the world" (Matthew 28:18-20). The blunt meaning of the vision is simply this: God's real people do not need any walls, the holy presence of Almighty God is all that the true Israel needs, whether applied to the ancient Israel or the new Israel in Christ. As Leupold also understood it, "Zechariah is speaking of the ideal Jerusalem, the church, and of an ideal dwelling in her, membership in the church of God."[11]

In Zechariah 2:6-13 in the remaining part of the chapter, the teaching is announced by Zechariah "in the name of Jehovah," the intervening transfer of the teaching via the "angel that talked with me" being bypassed. In its totality, the message of Zechariah is to be understood as God's Word first to Isarel of old, and in a larger frame of reference to the glorious church of the future, and to all mankind. In studying this passage, care should be exercised to avoid falling into the critical booby-trap that would make Zechariah the author of these admonitions instead of the Lord. It is not as Mitchell alleged that, "Zechariah puts into the mouth of Jehovah the promise, `I will come and dwell with thee,'"[12] or that, "He makes Yahweh promise to be `a splendour in the city'!"[13] We consider such "interpretations" to be little short of blasphemy. The opposite is the truth, that God puts the words of this prophecy into the mouth of Zechariah.