Zechariah 12:1-9 is a portion of Scripture that has at least a couple of different interpretations available to the Bible student. We will present one of those interpretations in this study, while the other interpretation (and I am sure there are others) will be left to those who wish to debate it.

As far as the alternative interpretation that I am aware of – that of a future attack on Judah and Jerusalem in the latter days that will be thwarted by the nation of Israel herself – I absolutely understand how they get there. Many believe Psalm 83 is prophetic in nature versus an exclusive imprecatory prayer and/or a prophecy that was fulfilled in Israel’s early years as a nation when she was routinely attacked by her neighbors following her reestablishment in 1948. I suspect that because some view Psalm 83 as intrinsically linked with Zechariah 12:1-9, this is generally where this interpretive concept of a future attack on Judah and Jerusalem, with Israel destroying these enemies, originates.

Yet, for me, I really do see Zechariah 12 as a tie-in with Zechariah 13 and 14, essentially making Zechariah 12-14 a blended end-times prophecy related to the timeframe beginning with the Abomination of Desolation (mentioned in Zechariah 14:1-2) through to the Second Coming and subsequent Messianic Millennial Kingdom. As with most prophecies in the Bible, the content is not given in a precise chronological format, but the information in these three chapters is, in my view, confined to this time period, with a parenthetical on Messiah Yeshua’s First Advent found within Zechariah 13:7 and the bringing forth of the Israeli remnant through the Tribulation in Zechariah 13:8-9.

Underlined Scripture passages are my own emphasis.

“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.” – Zechariah 12:1

The LORD opens this chapter with a declaration of Him as Creator who “stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.” This critical truth is foundational to not only the saving gospel of Jesus Christ (Revelation 14:6-7) but to the credibility of the Word of God itself and the Bible’s creation narrative.

“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.

“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.” – Zechariah 12:2-3

The “siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem,” in my estimation, will come in three stages in this blended prophecy, with the final stage primarily in view.

The first stage we are seeing today is the world coming against the nation of Israel through the auspices of the United Nations, academia, and an explosion in worldwide antisemitism, including many nations’ collective desire to give the so-called Palestinians a state of their own, thereby dividing God’s land (Joel 3:2).

The second stage will occur when Antichrist’s UN forces surround Jerusalem and Judea, enforcing the covenant between Antichrist, Israel, and other nations (Daniel 9:27), which will result in the Abomination of Desolation (Matthew 24:15-21, Mark 13:14-19, Luke 21:20-24).

The third stage will occur as Antichrist, what is left of the world’s armies, and all who have taken The Mark of The Beast will surround Jerusalem, going into southern Judah, and wrapping around the Dead Sea to Bozrah (Zechariah 14:1-2, Joel 3:9-16, Revelation 19:11-21).

The Antichrist and the enemies of God that are left at the end of the Tribulation will indeed find Jerusalem to be “a cup of trembling” as they know the King of kings and Lord of lords is on His way to destroy them (Revelation 16:12-14, 16). All these enemies of God – “all the people round about” Jerusalem –  will be in a “siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem,” for Judah in general and Jerusalem in specific is where they know the Lord will be coming to deliver His Holy City and Israel’s Promised Land for His chosen people, so that the people of Israel will once again inhabit their God-given land forever, never to be uprooted again.

This “siege” against Judah and Jerusalem is not against the people living in the Promised Land and the Holy City at this time – for those living there during the Great Tribulation after Israel is exiled following the Abomination of Desolation will be those who will have taken The Mark of The Beast and are in allegiance to Antichrist – but is in an attempt at keeping the returning King of Creation out of the Promised Land and the Holy City and preventing Messiah Yeshua’s ensuing Messianic Millennial Kingdom from ever taking place.

Ever since Israel’s rebirth, “all people” have “burdened themselves” with the Holy City, but as the Tribulation comes to a close, and because they know the Lord is at hand, they “shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.”

[We will address the Hebrew word translated “against” in Zechariah 12:9.]

All, of course, will be futile and attempted in vain by “the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, [who are] gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army” (Revelation 19:19).

“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.” – Zechariah 12:4

“In that day” can be synonymous with “the day of the Lord” when the wrath of God is poured out following the resurrection/rapture of the church, including the ensuing Tribulation and the Second Coming of Jesus when He comes to destroy His enemies (Isaiah 24:21, Zephaniah 3:8, Zechariah 14:4, 6, 13), or of judgment in general. But the phrase is also commonly applied to the glories of the Millennial Kingdom when God will fulfill His promises to Israel.

In our contextual estimation, “In that day” in Zechariah 12:4 is speaking exclusively of the Second Coming.

[For why the enemies of the Lord will have reverted back to ancient days of fighting on horses and other animals, please see The Mark of the Beasts.]

How will the animals be smitten “with astonishment and the rider with madness”? By seeing the Lord and His heavenly armies descending to Earth!

The Lord begins His campaign in Bozrah in modern-day southern Jordan (Isaiah 63:1-4), near to where many of the remnant Israelites will have been supernaturally protected by God in the mountain wilderness of Petra/Mt. Seir, and then makes His way to Judah, as the Lord will “open His eyes upon the house of Judah” when He enters the Promised Land. God then declares that He will “smite every horse of the people [the animals on which Antichrist and what is left of the armies of the world are riding upon] with blindness.” Here is how Zechariah 14 describes this “plague” of “blindness” that will not only fall on the animals but on the enemies of God as well.

“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…

“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.” – Zechariah 14:12, 15

[For more details on “the plague” in the above passage, please see A Study of Zechariah 14:12-21.]

“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. 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.” – Zechariah 12:5-6

Here again is another blended prophecy.

First, Israel was immediately attacked by her neighbors after her establishment as a nation in 1948, with several other attacks in the ensuing years, eventually to take back Jerusalem in the Six-Day War of 1967. And indeed, even up to today, we see the leaders of Israel and especially the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) “like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf.” This initial prophecy is obviously fulfilled in our time.

The final fulfillment of this prophecy, however, will be when Israel comes back into her land with their returning Messiah from their 1,260-day exile following the Abomination of Desolation at the end of the Tribulation!

“Governors” in Hebrew is 441 אַלּוּף “alluwph” and means captain, duke, chief friend, governor, guide, ox. Or (shortened) talluph {al-loof’}; from ‘alph; familiar; a friend, also gentle; hence, a bullock (as being tame; applied, although masculine, to a cow); and so, a chieftain (as notable, like neat cattle) — captain, duke, (chief) friend, governor, guide, ox.

Because the “governors” (or captains/leaders) “of Judah” (which would include Jerusalem) – along with all the exiled citizens from Judah and Jerusalem – will have been hiding in the mountains of Petra/Mt. Seir in southern Jordan for the duration of the Great Tribulation (1,260 days), we have every reason to believe they will follow the Messiah on His white steed and His heavenly armies on His path from Bozrah to Judah and ultimately into Jerusalem. As the Lord destroys His enemies, He will also allow the people of Judah and Jerusalem to fight with Him against those same enemies, “devour[ing] all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left,” especially in Judah and Jerusalem, before His feet touch down on the Mount of Olives. [A Study of Zechariah 14:1-11 and A Study of Zechariah 14:12-21]

Of prime importance in this passage, God says that after Israel will “devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left” that “Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.” This would seem to be another confirmation that we are dealing with the Lord’s Second Coming and indicates that Jerusalem and Judah have not been recently inhabited by the Lord’s people as a final fulfillment of this prophecy.

There has never been a time in Israel’s history in the Promised Land where Judah and Jerusalem did not have at least a small remnant of Israelites living in her midst. This includes the Babylonian (Jeremiah 39:10, 40:1-6) and Roman conquests and dispersions.

When it comes to the Second Coming, Israel, following Messiah on their way back from the wilderness mountains to which they escaped after the Abomination of Desolation – reminiscent of God leading Israel through the wilderness into the Promised Land after the Exodus – will “devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left,” as they enter into their homeland that was violently taken from them at the Abomination of Desolation three and one-half years earlier (1,260 days). This idea of both the Messiah and the returning remnant of Israel taking vengeance on their accumulative enemies is abundant in the Tanakh as God often fought with Israel against their enemies (e.g., 2 Samuel 5:22-25).

Some may get caught up in the phrases “the inhabitants of Jerusalem” and “the governors of Judah” and conclude that Israelis will be living in Jerusalem and Judah at this time. Consider, however, that anyone who visits a foreign country will always be the citizen or the inhabitant of the country and/or city where they live. For instance, even though I may be visiting a foreign country, I will always be referred to as an inhabitant of the United States.

In just the same way, “the inhabitants of Jerusalem” and “the governors of Judah” – representatives of God’s chosen people who once lived there – will, at the time of the Great Tribulation, be exiled away from their homeland, yet they are still, and will always be, “the inhabitants of Jerusalem” and “the governors of Judah.”

Do we have another example of this concept in Scripture? We sure do.

Daniel, in his elegant intercessory prayer to God on behalf of the exiled Israelites and himself, said the following:

“O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.” – Daniel 9:7

Notice that Daniel refers to the exiled Israelites as “the men of Judah,” “the inhabitants of Jerusalem,” and “all Israel” who were “near, and far off, through all the countries whither Thou hast driven them.” These people, though exiled from their homeland for decades when Daniel offered his prayer, were still called by Daniel “the men of Judah,” “the inhabitants of Jerusalem,” and “all Israel,” just as God, through Zachariah, says the same concerning “the inhabitants of Jerusalem” and “the governors of Judah,” as they will come back to their homeland along with Messiah Yeshua at His Second Coming, only 1,260 days after they were driven away.

“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.” – Zechariah 12:7

On this campaign, and as mentioned above, Messiah’s divine path of wrath begins at Bozrah – Bozrah being near the location where Israel will have been hiding in the wilderness mountains – and will go through Judah before they finally get to Jerusalem, where Yeshua will finally plant His feet on the Mount of Olives, just as prophesied.

We learn of Messiah’s initial wrath beginning at Bozrah in ancient Edom – with Him alone destroying His enemies as He saves His remnant people in this location where they have been hiding out and supernaturally protected – from the prophet Isaiah:

“Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.

“Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?

“I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.

“For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.” – Isaiah 63:1-4

In the second phase, Messiah Yeshua and the armies of heaven, along with remnant Israel following closely behind Him, will enter into Judah and then proceed on to Jerusalem while God allows them to fight their enemies:

“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.” – Zechariah 14:14

And, finally, the third phase is when Messiah Jesus’ “feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives”:

“Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

“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.” – Zechariah 14:3-4

This event was prophesied by the two angels at Christ’s ascension into heaven:

“And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, [Jesus] was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

“And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

“Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day’s journey.” – Acts 1:9-12

“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.” – Zechariah 12:8

Again, Israel will have been hiding in the wilderness mountains and protected by God (Revelation 12:14), and at the Lord’s Second Coming He will “defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem,” and even the weakest among them will have strength “as David, and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them,” as they follow the Lord into Judah and Jerusalem to take vengeance on their enemies.

Might these returning Israelites, who have been supernaturally protected in the mountainous wilderness/desert of Petra/Mt. Seir and have been saved by accepting Yeshua as their Messiah, be the first in the universe that Messiah will regenerate and rejuvenate to live through the 1,000-year Messianic Kingdom when Yeshua begins His campaign in Bozrah, near to where the Israelites will have been hidden for the last half of the Tribulation? Again, “… 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.”

These “inhabitants of Jerusalem,” with their newfound strength – and most importantly with the defenses of Messiah Himself, as He defends them from their enemies – will battle those who killed their families and friends and had seized their possessions and inhabited their properties after the Abomination of Desolation until the Second Coming. Undoubtedly, these people that will live in Judah and Jerusalem (in addition to the Arab population currently living in Israel), ultimately possessing and inhabiting the fleeing Israelite properties and material wealth, will be represented by all of Israel’s surrounding enemy nations that will immediately flow into the Promised Land following the Abomination of Desolation.

The Lord in the past often elected to fight His enemies with His chosen people, Israel, and the Second Coming appears to be no exception!

“And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.” – Zechariah 12:9

The parallels between Zechariah 12 and 14 are truly amazing and, when taken together, give us a very clear rendition of what the Second Coming will look like with the exiled people of Judah and Jerusalem coming back with the Lord to defeat their enemies.

As promised above, we wanted to highlight that the Hebrew word translated “against” in this passage and Zechariah 12:3 is the preposition 5921 עַל “al” and can mean, depending on context, upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, among, in addition to, after, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against, as against, and, as, at, against, and is translated in many different ways in the Tanakh.

Therefore, as we observed in Zechariah 12:2-3, it is not that God’s enemies come against Jerusalem as in an attack on the people living in the land and Holy City during the Great Tribulation who are on their side, but rather they come against Jerusalem in the sense that they come over to or come at or come on to or come on the ground of or come to Jerusalem from their respective homelands because they know that this is where the conquering King of kings and Lord of lords will be returning to.

As noted in Zechariah 12:3, this “siege” at the end of the Tribulation is not meant to destroy the people within the city, as all the people living in Jerusalem and Judah will be those who have taken The Mark of The Beast and are in allegiance to Antichrist, but rather to keep the returning King out, and from the chosen people, Israel and her Messiah, of possessing again the Promised Land and the Holy City.

How do they know the Lord is coming back to destroy them? Because the three spirits from Satan, the Antichrist, and the False Prophet called them all together for this event!

“And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.” – Revelation 16:13-14

“And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.” – Revelation 19:19

[For more on this topic, please see The Kings of the East: Mission Impossible and The Valley of Jehoshaphat and ‘Armageddon.’]

Moreover, everyone left on Earth at the Second Coming will be eagerly looking for the returning King as all of God’s wrath will have been poured out at this point in history. There is no surprise to our Lord’s Second Coming to a ravished and desolate world and universe!

“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.” – Zechariah 12:10

When Israel is gathered back into her land following the Messiah’s Second Coming, the families of Israel will find the Lord showering them with “the spirit of grace and of supplications,” just as He did when they were waiting for Him from the wilderness mountains and the other nations of Earth to where they had been scattered during the Great Tribulation. When Israel finally receives her Messiah in faith at this time and going forward, the Lord will indeed shower them with His “spirit of grace and of supplications.”

Then “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,” as Israel has the time to fully comprehend and consider their national rejection of the Creator and Savior of the world that had just saved them, as they collectively finally come to the end of themselves.

This mourning and bitterness can only be equated to that of a parent who experiences an untimely death of a child. The emotional experience of the Israeli survivors of the Tribulation, who come to realize that Yeshua was their once-rejected Messiah, will be unequalled.

“In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.” – Zechariah 12:11

Here is what we said of this verse in The Valley of Jehoshaphat and ‘Armageddon’:

While Zechariah 12:9-10 are prophetic future, the reference to the Valley of Megiddo in verse 11 is a reminder of what happened in a past event and is not future. The event this passage refers to is when good King Josiah was killed in battle and “Hadadrimmon” was a town in the Valley of Megiddo:

“Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo. And the archers shot at King Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded. His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.” – 2 Chronicles 35:22-24 

As we can see, Zechariah 12:11, “In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon” is using this past event as an analogy to the mourning that the people of Jerusalem will experience when she is regathered after Christ’s Second Coming and recognize Him as their Messiah, and nothing else. There is no end-time prophecy here regarding Megiddo.

“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; The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart; All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.” – Zechariah 12:12-14

In Zechariah 13: A Contextual Study of Yeshua and Israel, where we tied in Zechariah 12:10-14 with Zechariah 13:6, we made the following observations:

The families of David and Levi are obvious. However, the families of Nathan and Shimei are a little difficult to identify.

Our best estimate on the family of Nathan could be either Nathan, the son of David and Bathsheba (1 Chronicles 3:5), or Nathan, one of God’s prophets to David, who ironically was the prophet God used to confront David’s sin concerning Bathsheba and Uriah (2 Samuel 12:1-14).

Taking into account that David’s son, Nathan, was given in the genealogy of Jesus Christ in the gospel of Luke (Luke 3:31), it would seem that if this Nathan was the family God had in mind in Zechariah 12:12-14, there could very well be a subtle prophetic allusion to the Messiah in view.

As far as Shimei, a viable candidate is Shimei, the son of Gershon, who was the son of Levi (Exodus 6:17, Numbers 3:18, 21). Though not of the priestly line of Kohath, Gershon’s family did minister as Levites for the Tabernacle and Temple. Of Shimei’s notable descendants was Asaph who wrote some of the Psalms and was in charge of music during the reign of King David (1 Chronicles 6:39-43). 

Another possible candidate, interestingly enough, is Shimei or Semei who is also mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus Christ in Luke 3:26. If this Shimei or Semei is in view, this would be an additional confirmative prophetic allusion to the Messiah in this passage, along with Nathan, the son of David.

Captivatingly, when considering that David, Nathan, and Shimei could represent the kingly line of Judah and Levi being in the line of the priesthood of Israel, we perceive these families as pointing to Messiah as both eternal King and high Priest. Even more fascinatingly, if the families of David and Shimei represent the kingly line of Judah, the families of Levi the priestly line, and the families of the prophet Nathan representing the prophets of Israel, then we can see Messiah as all three – eternal Prophet, high Priest, and coming King!

The final verse – “All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart” – would cover the rest of the families of the tribes of Israel who will “mourn, every family apart” when they are brought back from captivity into the Promised Land following the return of their once rejected Messiah who will have delivered them from their enemies and fulfill the promises of God to His chosen people, Israel, for the duration of the glorious Messianic Millennial Kingdom.

Conclusion

As we said at the onset, we do understand how others can come to the alternative interpretation that Zechariah 12:1-9 is generally speaking of an attack on Judah and Jerusalem that is repelled by the Israelites in the latter days before the Tribulation, especially if one believes that Psalm 83 is a yet fulfilled future prophecy and that Psalm 83 is intrinsically linked to Zechariah 12:1-9.

Nevertheless, we have come to the conclusion that Zechariah 12:1-9 – though a blended prophecy in many respects, as we have outlined within this study – is speaking primarily to The Second Coming.

Therefore, because we interpret Zechariah 12:1-9 in the way that we have, we really do not see any corroborating Scriptural evidence of such an attack on Judah and Jerusalem. The only other overt Biblical prophecy regarding an invasion of Israel in the latter days is the Gog/Magog invasion of Israel. However, the Gog/Magog invasion of Israel never even mentions Jerusalem, let alone an attack on the Holy City.

An attack on Judah and Jerusalem will evidently be reserved for the Antichrist and his UN forces that represent the nations at the midway point of the Tribulation that will exile God’s chosen people out of her land one last time during the Great Tribulation (1,260 days), with Jerusalem and Judah setting the stage for the final battle between Antichrist and the enemies of God as they await the returning King, His heavenly armies, and the returning remnant of Israel who will follow their Messiah into the Promised Land.

Moreover, as we noted in Zechariah 12:6, “Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.” This appears to be an emphatic statement of rebirth and of perpetuality, which will only exist after Messiah Yeshua’s Second Coming and the destruction of the Lord’s and Israel’s enemies when He leads His people through Judah and into Jerusalem, as His chosen people, Israel, will once again inhabit the Holy City and their God-given and God-sworn Promised Land forever.

I do believe we have presented logical, rational, and textual lines of reasonings for believing that Zechariah 12 is giving us some details of the Second Coming that fit together rather nicely with the narratives found within the ensuing chapters of Zechariah 13 and 14. Taken together, these three chapters really do seem to present a prophetic account directly related to the Second Coming and Israel’s mourning for their once rejected Messiah (with the Abomination of Desolation narrative found in Zechariah 14:1-2).

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