How could anyone even think that you are defending Christianity in any way, shape or form?Its Islam and the false prophet Muhammad that you constantly defend by attacking the actual history of the Judeo/Christian Philolosphy that proves that the O.T. history points to Jesus as being the Messiah of prophecy.
As far as Zechariah "12" is concerned.......its a prophecy concerning the salvation of Jerusalem at a time in the future, God will use the destruction of physcial Jerusalem as a method to punish those who attacked and destroyed that city (Zech. 12:1-9). You cannot separate single verses and take them away from the contextual message of the entire chapter. When you continue reading into 13 and 14.......the prophecy becomes clear in the fact that it was fulfilled in the 1st century AD through the eventual fall of the Roman Empire.
This does not mean that God would stop Rome from destroying Jerusalem and scattering the Jews around the globe.......it means that God will save a faithful remnant of the Jews (those who will follow Jesus as the Messiah) and use them to destroy those who would destroy Jerusalem. The Jerusalem spoken of by Zechariah is a Spiritual City inhabited by God's Holy People.....the faithful remnant, Christians. Paul described it in detail.............New Jerusalem, the temple was constructed as a Spiritual Temple, not a literal temple. (Heb.12:22-24)
Consider the entirety of Zech. chapter 12........and the prophecy fits perfectly in pointing out the physical desctrution of Jerusalem in the 1st century by the Roman Empire. Israel engaged Rome beginning around 66 A.D. and Jerusalem fell to Rome during the 70s A.D.
Zech. 12:1-9, Sometime in the future God will use Jerusalem as a means to punish the nations, to include Israel itself....who rejected the Messiah sent by God, along with all those who literally attacked Jerusalem (Rome eventualy was overtaken by Christianity).
Zech. 12:10,13:9, God will bring salvation..........to those who accept the terms of that savaltion, those who accept Jesus as the Christ of prophecy......the faithful remnant whom God promised would be offered salvation first. The scriptures prove that Christianity was exculsive to being offered to the faithful remnant of Jews for the 1st 10 years of its existence, just as promised, "........to the Jew first......." -- Romans 1:16
Look at the one that both the Romans and Jews were accused of Piercing.....Christ Jesus (Zech. 12:11). That piercing will open up a "fountain for the cleansing of sin" (Zech. 13:1).........first for the faithful remnant of Jews
All pagan idolatry and worship of such will be cut off, prophecy will cease, God will communicate His commands/laws through His Son Jesus( Zech.13:2-6). "In times past God spoke to the ancestors through prophets ......today God speaks through His Son whom He has appointed hier to all things......." -- Heb.1:1-2
Nations will battle Isarel and Jerusalem and God will allow them to destroy both (Zech. 14:1-2) God will use the remnant, that has become a powerful Christian Nation to punish those who destroyed Israel and Jerusalem. God will battle with the nations (that Rome controlled -- Zech. 14:3-7. Living water (the Christian Doctrine.....the Gospel) will flow from Jerusalem in all directions (Christianity has encompassed over 1/3 the world's total population), and it all flows through Spiritual Jerusalem.......the spiritual temple God has constructed with Christianity -- Zech. 14:8-11. That LIVING WATER still flows today coming from the eternal city of Spiritual Jerusalem........a kingdom without end.
Zechariah 12 Fulfilled
This post is in response to recent and past questions about whether or not the prophecies of Zechariah 12 have been fulfilled. At a later time I may do my own in-depth study of this passage, but th…
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