Zechariah 2:1 - "And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand!"

Have you ever looked out of your window and seen a man with a funny-looking spy-glass affair perched on top of a tripod, who seems to be earnestly gazing at nothing in particular? Or seen the same type of individual in an open field? Now, I’m not making fun of you. I know that you know that this man is a surveyor, marking out land boundaries. But you have to admit, it’s a very weird looking instrument that he uses.

Things were much simpler in the days of Zechariah. The man that he saw (actually, it was an angel!) held a measuring line in his hand! And, really, that was the surveyor’s tool in ancient times. Mathematics, as we know it toda…