Hi:
It doesn’t sound like 70 AD to
me.
Zec 12:10 says, “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.”
When they “look upon me whom they have pierced”, it
sounds like when the Sign of the Son of man is seen in
the sky on the Day of God’s Wrath.
Zec 13:6-9 says, “And one shall say unto him, What
are these wounds in thine hands? Then he (i.e., Jesus)
shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the
house of my friends. :7 Awake, O sword (i.e.,
Sword of the Lord on the Day of God’s Wrath), against my
shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith
the LORD of hosts (Jesus, Isa 44:6, quoted below): smite
the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I
will turn mine hand upon the little ones. 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 (the
mountain-sized asteroid of Rev 8:8 will impact the
Mediterranean Sea), 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. “
Zec 14:1-3 says, “ Behold, the day of the LORD (that
is also the Day of God’s Wrath) cometh, and thy spoil
shall be divided in the midst of thee. 2 For I
will gather all nations (i.e., not just Rome) 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.”
I think the “day of battle” was
Joshua’s Long Day, and is mentioned here because the
Day of God’s Wrath will be Jesus’ Long Day. When the
two asteroids of Rev 8:8-11 impact Earth, this globe
will be turned upside down, causing a long day.
Jos 10:8-14 says, “And the LORD said unto Joshua,
Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine
hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.
9 Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and
went up from Gilgal all night. 10 And the LORD
discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a
great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way
that goeth up to Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah,
and unto Makkedah. 11 And it came to pass, as they
fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to
Bethhoron, that the LORD CAST DOWN GREAT STONES FROM
HEAVEN UPON THEM unto Azekah, and they died: they were
more which died with hailstones than they whom the
children of Israel slew with the sword. 12 Then
spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD
delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel,
and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou
still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of
Ajalon. 13 And the sun stood still, and the moon
stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon
their enemies. Is not this written in the book of
Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven,
and hasted not to go down about a whole day. 14
And there was no day like that before it or after it,
that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the
LORD fought for Israel.“
On the Day of God’s Wrath, the
LORD (i.e., Joshua from the Hebrew and Jesus from the
Greek) will fight for Israel. He doesn’t listen to the
voice of a man, it is the Day of God’s Wrath.
Isa 44:6 says, “Thus saith the LORD (YHWH) the King
of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD (YHWH) of hosts; I
am the first (YHWH king of Israel), and I am the last
(YHWH of hosts the Redeemer, Jesus Christ)); and beside
me there is no God.”
Agape,
Marilyn Agee
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Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 9:17 AM
Subject: Zechariah 13 already history!
[Good News]
Dear John and Doves,
We are have been rapidly approaching the second
phase of the Prelude to Christ's Return since 1967.
Some expect the final 1260 day span to begin as
soon as April 11th, 2012!
One important thing I learned today was the
fulfillment of Zechariah chapter 13 (occurred in the
past).
Based on a reply I received to a question posted
to a friend and biblical scholar, Eve Engelbrite.
Eve Engelbrite
[ http://kneelingmedia.org/AwakeBride/
] and [ http://awakebride.blogspot.com/
] and [ http://www.youtube.com/user/AwakeBride
]
"This
was my reply to Dave a last year on Zech. 13".
Zechariah 13 pertains to Messiah's first
coming as our Good Shepherd who laid down His
life for His sheep in 30 AD, and I think
verses 8-9 were fufilled in 70 AD.
Zechariah 13:7b-9 “. . . smite the shepherd,
and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will
turn my hand on the little ones. 8 And it
shall come to pass, that in all the land, said
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.”
Josephus was a
historian and eye-witness to the siege of Jerusalem. Because Titus laid
siege at the feast of unleavened bread (to
which it was mandatory that adult males
attend) there were close to three million
people trapped inside Jerusalem.
Based upon the
number of sacrifices recorded, there were “.
. . two millions seven hundred thousand and
two hundred persons that were pure and holy;
for as to those that have the leprosy, or
the gonorrhea, or women that have their
monthly courses, or such as are otherwise
polluted, it is not lawful for them to be
partakers of this sacrifice; nor indeed for
any foreigners neither, who come hither to
worship.” (The War of the Jews, book IV,
chapter 9.3)
Because the
city was not built for sewage and water for
3 million, roughly one million people died
of plagues before the troops of Titus
breached the walls and climbed over piles of
dead bodies to slay those yet armed with
strength to fight. Josephus estimated
1,100,000 died and 97,000 were taken into
slavery with some being sent to work mines
in Egypt. To me that's
two-thirds dead and one-third taken captive.
Josephus concluded, “the multitude of those
that therein perished exceeded all the
destructions that either men or God ever
brought upon the world.” (The War of the Jews,
book IV, chapter 9.3) God had
“finish[ed] the transgression”. [end quote,
Eve]
This fact is also
corroborated by Ray Schulz in his excellent
updated paper, The Double reference prophecy
of Daniel, http://ourpropheticbible.org/downloads/WEEKS.pdf
and others such as Ted Porter
So
therefore there remains only one final
abomination of desolation for the nation Israel
in their future and not the bleak outcome of
Zech. 13 once done unto them.
But
our future is quickly approaching.
best regards,
Tom Tanner