Zechariah went into the temple to do his job and, after about 400 years, God broke the silence. He told Zechariah that today is the day (or today is The Day). And then he shut Zechariah's mouth for 9 months. 9 months! The poor guy saw an angel of the Lord, heard the news Israel had been waiting to hear for centuries, and now he couldn't even talk about it. I would be pissed. "Yeah, thanks a lot God ... jerk."
But then after those long 9 months, he could talk again. Was he mad about what he had gone through? Did he finally yell at people who might have taken advantage of his silence? No, he praised. The moment he was able, he praised.
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