Zechariah 1:3-6 YHWH of Armies commentary

 3: Because of this say thou unto them Thus He says YHWH of Armies Turn ye unto Me declares YHWH of Armies and I will turn unto you says YHWH of Armies 4: Be ye not as your fathers unto whom the former prophets have cried saying Thus He says YHWH of Armies Return you, please! from your ways—the evil ones and [from] your practices and [from] your practices—the evil ones But they did not hear nor attend unto Me declares YHWH 5: Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live forever? 6: But My words and My statutes which I commanded my servants the prophets did they not overtake your fathers? and they turn themselves and they are saying Like as YHWH of Armies thought to do unto us according to our ways and according to our doings so has he dealt with us 

Comments: ^{Zechariah 1:3-6} Whenever our Creator refers to himself as YHWH of Armies (the title usually translated as LORD of hosts), he is reminding us that we are in a cosmic war, a war mortals tend to call “spiritual.”

Spiritual really means cosmic—heavenly—but humans are more comfortable considering heavenly things as ethereal, things without tangible substance. This is a huge mistake. Cosmic armies, both the armies of light and the armies of darkness, have as much substance as anything we can see and touch on a daily basis. Just because something is heavenly—cosmic—doesn’t mean it lacks substance.  More commentary on these verses can be read HERE.