The antithesis of sacrilege is holiness, and an outcome of holiness is the Kingdom of God, the community of covenant man. Zechariah gives us a vision of this estate of man. Instead of the sacrilege of the Canaanites (the ungodly) in the house of the Lord, all things reveal their devotion to God. Every cooking vessel, the sacred vessels of the temple, because men will serve God and will dedicate every aspect pf their lives and possessions to Him. In place of the sacrilege, there will be universal holiness. Instead of a division between the holy place and the unclean, all things shall be “holiness” unto the Lord. T.V. Moore wrote: All shall be happy because all shall be holy. Sorrow shall cease because sin shall cease. The groaning earth shall be mantled with joy because the trail of the serpent will be gone, and Eden of the future shall make us cease to look back with longing at the Eden of the past.



