Shalom dear doves,You may recall some recent posts about the offical death date/time of
Arafat at 3:30 A.M. Paris France on the 11th day of the 11th month
with the funeral service the next day in Cario at the 11th hour ...(Was not Arafat a 'type' of the 11th 'little horn',
aided by '10' other 'horns' ?His tempory burial in Ramallah, sprinked with temple
mount earth, may yet lead to a rush on Jerusalem ? )Let's then 'watch' Zechariah 11:8 ...
8 Three (abhorrant) shepherds also I cut off in one month;
and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.Note also ...
16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land,
which shall not visit those that be cut off,
neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken,
nor feed that that standeth still:
but he shall eat the flesh of the fat,
and tear their claws in pieces.Note also that Zechariah 11 leads up to the last 3 chapters
of Zerchariah 12, 13, 14 ...1 ¶ The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD,
which stretcheth forth the heavens,
and layeth the foundation of the earth,
and formeth the spirit of man within him.2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling
unto all the people round about,
when they shall be in the siege both against Judah
and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone
for all people: all that burden themselves with it
shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth
be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse
with astonishment, and his rider with madness:
and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah,
and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart,
The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength
in the LORD of hosts their God.
6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah
like an hearth of fire among the wood,
and like a torch of fire in a sheaf;
and they shall devour all the people round about,
on the right hand and on the left:
and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place,
even in Jerusalem.7 The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first,
that the glory of the house of David
and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem
do not magnify themselves against Judah.8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
and he that is feeble among them at that day
shall be as David;
and the house of David
shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.9 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day,
that I will seek to destroy all the nations
that come against Jerusalem.10 And I will pour upon the house of David,
and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
the spirit of grace and of supplications:
and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced,
and they shall mourn for him,
as one mourneth for his only son,
and shall be in bitterness for him,
as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem,
as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart;
the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart;
the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart;
the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
14 All the families that remain, every family apart,
and their wives apart.1 ¶ In that day there shall be a fountain opened
to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem
for sin and for uncleanness.
2 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts,
that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land,
and they shall no more be remembered:
and also I will cause the prophets
and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land....
8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD,
two parts therein shall be cut off and die;
but the third shall be left therein.
9 And I will bring the third part through the fire,
and will refine them as silver is refined,
and will try them as gold is tried:
they shall call on my name,
and I will hear them:
I will say,
It is my people:
and they shall say,
The LORD is my God.1 ¶ Behold, the day of the LORD cometh,
and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle;
and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled,
and the women ravished;
and half of the city shall go forth into captivity,
and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations,
as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives,
which is before Jerusalem on the east,
and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof
toward the east and toward the west,
and there shall be a very great valley;
and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north,
and half of it toward the south.
5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains;
for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal:
yea, ye shall flee,
like as ye fled from before the earthquake
in the days of Uzziah king of Judah:
and the LORD my God shall come,
and all the saints with thee.6 And it shall come to pass in that day,
that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD,
not day, nor night:
but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.8 ¶ And it shall be in that day,
that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem;
half of them toward the former sea,
and half of them toward the hinder sea:
in summer and in winter shall it be.9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth:
in that day shall there be one LORD,
and his name one.10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba
to Rimmon south of Jerusalem:
and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place,
from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate,
unto the corner gate,
and from the tower of Hananeel
unto the king's winepresses.11 And men shall dwell in it,
and there shall be no more utter destruction;
but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite
all the people that have fought against Jerusalem;
Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,
and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,
and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.13 And it shall come to pass in that day,
that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them;
and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour,
and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem;
and the wealth of all the heathen round about
shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel,
in great abundance.15 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule,
of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts
that shall be in these tents, as this plague.16 ¶ And it shall come to pass,
that every one that is left of all the nations
which came against Jerusalem
shall even go up from year to year to worship the King,
the LORD of hosts,
and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up
of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem
to worship the King, the LORD of hosts,
even upon them shall be no rain.18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not,
that have no rain;
there shall be the plague,
wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen
that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt,
and the punishment of all nations that come not up
to keep the feast of tabernacles.20 In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses,
HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD;
and the pots in the LORD'S house
shall be like the bowls before the altar.
21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah
shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts:
and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them,
and seethe therein:
and in that day there shall be no more
the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.
Note also our Lord's word in Revelatiom 3:3
Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard,
and hold fast, and repent.If therefore thou shalt not watch,
I will come on thee as a thief,
and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.Shalom shalom,
David
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