Commentaries:
This is interesting in terms of Matthew 25 and the Ten Virgins, who were asleep. The angel comes and has to waken the prophet out of sleep. Could there be some sort of a parallel? Perhaps. Yet, at this point, the prophet himself had to be awoken out of sleep. Maybe it is a key to the timing of the revelation of the Two Witnesses and the other events of the end time.
Richard T. Ritenbaugh
The Two Witnesses (Part Four)
Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Zechariah 4:1:
Ephesians 4:11-13