24th Meeting - Millennial Discussion Con't -Zechariah

I have to get some business out of the way before we start. The Bible that helped me to understand the Old Testament better is "The Reese Chronological Bible" ISBN 0-87123-115-8.
In our study of Millennium Bible references we went from Old to New Testament Bible Verses, and some in my class have found that better knowledge and understanding of the Old Testament will help in understanding the New Testament. This as a teacher has been fun for me to watch. If I can make Bible Readers out of my students, then I feel I have been successful. After studying the passages in Matthew and John, they felt they needed to look at some of the Minor Prophets, I tried to get them to focus on earlier Zechariah is the first Minor Prophet they wanted to study further. We will pick this up now.

Zechariah Chapters one through 5.
Zechariah opens with "In the eighth month of Darius..." I asked them when this was, they looked at me blankly, I showed them my copy of my handout of the Statue mentioned in Daniel Chapter 2, then we looked at the time line and found that two Darius' had ruled the Kingdom of Medo-Persia. We had to figure out which it was, the class came to the conclusion that it had to be during the time of Darius the Meade, because he was ruler of Babylon during the time of the Temple being rebuilt in Jerusalem.
In verse 8, Zechariah had a vision, it was similar to the one John had in Revelation (Rev. 6.), but at the same time different. The angel asked the man standing in the myrtle trees and on a red horse. The visions of heaven that we have does not mention any trees. I believe this to be in Babylon, since this is where Zechariah is at the time of Darius the Meade. Zechariah is different from Revelation chapter 6 the horsemen come out of Heaven and the horses have riders and they are going out into the world. In Zechariah only one horse has a rider and the person says that the horsemen have returned and found the world at peace. In Revelation the horsemen are taking vials with them because of the conflicts in the world. The fact that the world is now at peace should tell us that Zechariah's vision can not be at the same time as Revelation chapter 6.
The whole world is at peace, the world is still waiting for this to take place, so this is still future to Revelation Chapter 6. This will not take place until the Prince of Peace Comes back to dwell on the earth. This points to the Millennial period. Chapter 1 closes with the mention of four horns, that destroyed Israel. These four horns seem to be the four kingdoms Daniel foretold in chapter 2 of his book of prophecy. Some Bible versions talk about craftsmen, or blacksmiths that will come to tear down the four horns. Who are these craftsmen or blacksmiths? I see I am close to the end of my allotted time for each post so I will take this up on the next post; coming shortly, hopefully yet today.