The Final Cleansing Zechariah 13
Zechariah 12—14 comprises a God-breathed foreview of the great end-times drama that is at once unspeakably awful and inexpressibly blessed: awful because it focuses on the dreadful travail yet to befall the Jewish people (12:1–2; 13:7—14:2) and blessed because that time of travail is revealed as the time Yahweh will show Himself the powerful and gracious covenant keeping God of Israel (12:10Get More Articles—Subscribe Today!
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So, when are two thirds of the Jews in Israel to be killed? And does that mean they’ll be lost? Since only the third part is refined and call on God’s name and God will hear them and claim them (the third) as his people?
What do you say? Thanks!
It seems to me that Zechariah 13:6 isn’t referring to the false prophets but to the Messiah. He was the one pierced in the “house of His friends”, even the house of His brethren
Your commentary of Zechariah 13 certainly helped me with my study of the Book of Zechariah.
Thank you. Blessings