Zechariah - What God shows us in the night season

Haggai and Zechariah were co-labourers in the work of God. They had been raised up by the Lord at a critical time in the nation of Israel. The exiled Jews had been permitted to return to their land from Babylon. In little over a year they had laid the foundation of the temple. At this juncture the work was brought to a stand still by the determined resistance of the Samaritans. For a further 14 years the house of God would lie dormant without a tool being lifted to advance the cause of God.
It was at this stage that God raised up these men. They were companions in labour, although a careful study of their prophecies will reveal a difference of emphasis in their message.
Haggai addressed the neglect of the people and emphasised the work which had to be done.
Zechariah conveyed much more prophetic content lifting the eyes of the people away from their present circumstances to the future, not merely their imediate futre in the completion of the temple, but to the distant future and the final triumph of the cause of God.
Their ministries differed in emphasis and content yet the Lord blended both together to bring about the accomplishment of his purpose.
In Zechariah's prophecy the Lord lifts up to our attention those truths which we ought to be focused on especially when it is a dark season and a day of small things in God's word. This prophecy is literally God's cure for discouragement in God's work.