Zacarias 13

Zacarias 13

Chart from recommended resource Jensen's Survey of the OT - used by permission Zechariah Chart from Charles Swindoll Another Zechariah Chart ZECHARIAH ("Yahweh Remembers") Click for EXCELLENT TIMELINE of Zechariah - Go to Page 43 Other Timelines on Zechariah Zec 1:1-6 Zec 1:7-6:8 Zec 6:9-6:15 Zec 7:1-8:23 Zec 9:1-11:17 Zec 12:1-14:21 Return to Me Zec 1:3 Messianic Kingdom Visions The Branch Four Messages Two Oracles or Burdens Zechariah 1-6 Zechariah 7-8 Zechariah 9-14 Apocalyptic Ethical Prophecy 1) Rebuke 2) Reminder 3) Restoration 4) Return Predictive Prophecy 1) Burden Against the Nations 2) Burden For Israel Call to Repentance Eight Visions (Picture) Crowning of Joshua Question of the Fasts (Calendar) First Burden: Rejection of Messiah Second Burden: Reign of Messiah The Way of Salvation Messianic Kingdom Visions The Bringer of Salvation Commands Concerning Present Things Oracles (Burdens) Concerning Future Things Behold the man...the Branch Love, Truth and Peace The Day of the Lord PICTURES PROBLEMS PREDICTIONS ISRAEL'S FORTUNE ISRAEL'S FASTING ISRAEL'S FUTURE "My house will be built in Jerusalem" Zec 1:16 "Let your hands be strong" Zec 8:9 "HOLY TO THE LORD" PLACE: JERUSALEM Written During the Building of the Temple 520-518BC Written after the Temple Was Completed circa 480-470BC Zechariah 13:1 "In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for impurity In that day: Zec 12:3,8,11 a fountain will be opened Job 9:30,31 Ps 51:2,7 Isa 1:16-18 Eze 36:25 Joh 1:29 19:34,35 1Co 6:11 Eph 5:25-27 Tit 3:5-7 Heb 9:13,14 1Jn 1:7 5:6 1Pe 1:19 Rev 1:5,6 7:13,14 for the house of David: Zec 12:7,10 for sin and for impurity, Lev 15:2-33 Nu 19:9-22 Eze 36:17,29 GOD PROVIDES A FOUNTAIN FOR CLEANSING In that day - First note from the chart summaries of Zechariah above that we are in the predictive prophecy section and chapters 12-14 form a unit which summarize the future history of the nation of Israel in the last days, referred to repeatedly by the phrase in that day. In fact many scholars connect Zechariah 13:1 as directly related to the events in Zechariah 12 (remembering that the chapter breaks were not infallibly inspired but were arranged by fallible men.) This phrase is a key word (phrase) in Zechariah 12-14 occurring 3x in 3v in Zechariah 13 and 17x in 16v in Zechariah 12-14. This phrase is part of the time period referred to as the Day of the Lord, and in Zechariah 12-14 specifically refers to that time of the Day of the Lord which is known as the Great Tribulation (Begins - Mt 24:15-note, named - Mt 24:21-note), the Time of Jacob's Distress (Jeremiah 30:7-note) or "a time of distress" (Da 12:1-note). This period of the Day of the Lord corresponds to the last 3.5 years of Daniel's Seventieth Week during which time the Campaign of Armageddon will be waged and be brought to an abrupt termination when the King o kings returns (Rev 19:11-16-note) and defeats all of His and Israel's enemies (Rev 19:17-21-note). Daniel depicts this final destruction of the Gentile nations by Messiah as a Stone (Messiah) that returns to crush Nebuchadnezzar's statue which symbolizes all of the anti-God, anti-Christ nations of the world. After crushing the Gentile kingdoms Messiah establishes His Millennial Kingdom (Da 2:34-35-note, Da 2:44-45-note). Eugene Merrill - The lamentation of repentance that results when Judah sees the one whom they have pierced by their apostate disobedience will in turn result in their forgiveness, an act described in the present unit as a purification or cleansing. As is always the case with genuine conversion there are both negative and positive aspects. The positive consists of the restoration to fellowship that takes place when sin has been forgiven (Zech 13:1). The negative involves the removal of those habits and attitudes that occasioned the interruption of fellowship between God and His people in the first place (Zech 13:2–6). (An Exegetical Commentary - Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi). Here are the uses of In that day in Zechariah 12-14: Zech. 12:3; Zech. 12:4; Zech. 12:6; Zech. 12:8; Zech. 12:9; Zech. 12:11; Zech. 13:1; Zech. 13:2; Zech. 13:4; Zech. 14:4; Zech. 14:6; Zech. 14:8; Zech. 14:9; Zech. 14:13; Zech. 14:20; Zech. 14:21 Zechariah means "God remembers" and here the prophet records in essence that God remembers His covenant with Abraham, the fountain depicting the extension of the Abrahamic Covenant in the New Covenant in Messiah's blood.... “Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke (OLD COVENANT OF LAW), although I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD. 33 “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days (THIS HAS NOT BEEN FULFILLED TO ISRAEL YET BUT WILL BE WHEN THE DELIVERER COMES - SEE Ro 11:26-27-note),” declares the LORD, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people (THIS IS A REFLECTION OF THE FOUNTAIN THAT WAS OPENED "IN EMMANUEL'S VEINS"). 34 “They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the LORD, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” (Jer 31:31-34-commentary) (See Covenant: Relationship of the Abrahamic, Old and New Covenants)