The spiritually wicked enemy of Jerusalem is the enemy of God.

Zechariah 12

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• This prophecy is from the Creator who forms people with His Spirit.
• Those who attack Jerusalem are like trembling drunkards in God’s eyes.
• The world sees Jerusalem as a burden, and the global culture will be destroyed.
• The power center of the beast is plunged into darkness leaving confusion and madness.
• Strength is in the Lord who brings fiery power of Holiness against a spiritually wicked world.
• The followers of Christ become first, and the Jewish people become last.
• In the Day of the Lord the feeble will be eternally redeemed.
• In the Day of the Lord there is mourning for those who rejected Jesus Christ.

This prophecy is from the Creator who forms people with His Spirit. “The burden of the word of the Lord against Israel. Thus says the Lord, who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him:” Zachariah 12:1

What is spoken in this chapter is against Israel and comes from the Creator God who forms us with the breath of His Spirit. God created our soul to be the home of the Holy Spirit, but in today’s world there is something that wants to sit in the temple of God, our body, as if it is God (click to read about the “man of sin”). It does that by the thing which forms thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors. It causes people to serve the creature human being and to reject God as the Divine Creator. It also enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people in every city around the world. By what it leads people to say and do, they are conformed to the anti-Christian society as they are groomed to the mark of the beast.

Those who attack Jerusalem are like trembling drunkards in God’s eyes. “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem.” Zachariah 12:3

To make Jerusalem a cup of trembling (or drunkenness) to those who surround them is to say that what they are drinking from Jerusalem’s cup sends them reeling. It is within that frenzy that they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. In God’s eyes, that siege is done in drunkenness and trembling because of the retribution that will be coming to them by His hand. Today, we see how the countries surrounding Jerusalem are in a frenzy as they come against Jerusalem and Judah. The whole territory of Judah is in the West Bank and is reeling in conflict and violence. Jerusalem is the same way as it is divided between West and East Jerusalem, the East being in the West Bank and the West in Israel.

The siege against Jerusalem and Judah is coming from the global government of the beast, which detests God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, the State of Israel, and Christianity. The siege is not only from the Middle East region but is a global cry from those living for the global culture and goals of the United Nations. Their efforts are coordinated by the thing which forms what they do, say, think, and feel.

There is a Tribe of Judah which is the tribe of king David and of Jesus Christ. Through the Tribe of Judah came Christianity, and as followers of Christ we live for the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth. The old Jerusalem is the one of Israel which we see on this earth today. Even today, the Jerusalem of the State of Israel is under siege and so is Christianity, so in that light, “Judah” and “Jerusalem” are under siege. While that siege is happening today, it progresses into enormous tribulation as the days progress under the global government of the beast (United Nations). This world’s system will be totally destroyed on the Day of the Lord.

The world sees Jerusalem as a burden, and the global culture will be destroyed. “And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it.” Zachariah 12:3 

The nations of the global government of the beast are used against Jerusalem as God’s judgment against them. Israel rejected Jesus Christ as their Messiah and refused to reconcile to God through Him, as well as being responsible for killing Him. At the same time, the enemy of Jerusalem is the enemy of God and His enemy will be destroyed, as quoted, “Woe to the world because of offenses! For offenses must come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!” Matthew 18:7

Today, Jerusalem is considered to be an enormous burden and focus of heaviness within the Middle East region and in the eyes of nations around the world. The United Nations wants to heave all of Israel away to bring cohesion to the Middle East through the goals of global peace and security. That is the goal of the global government of the beast. In the process of bringing global cohesion, they deny the existence of God and couldn’t care less about the Biblical heritage of the Israelites. In every city around the world, opposition is built against Israel. The enemy of Jerusalem is the same enemy of God, and that is why God is going to destroy and cut into pieces those who come against Jerusalem.

All people of the world are coming against the State of Israel who are considered a burden and heaviness to them. The masses around the world protest against Israel for being a threat to global peace and security. They want Israel to conform to the global agenda. The United Nations have made the government of Israel an international outcast by declaring Israel’s use of police and military force to be illegal. The United States refuse to stand with the State of Israel against the “democratic” global goals of peace and security. Even the citizens of Israel are protesting against the “right wing” government as they demand their “democratic” rights as defined by the global culture. They want their right to kill the unborn, to promote the LGBQT+ lifestyles, etc. Although the nations of the earth are gathered against Israel, they will be destroyed and cut into pieces on the Day of the Lord.

The global culture is built on the thing which forms what people think, feel, do, and say. It enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people and by what they say and do they are definitely anti-Israel and anti-Christian. They are conformed to the global culture as they are groomed to the mark of the beast. They will be destroyed and cut to pieces.

The power center of the beast is plunged into darkness leaving confusion and madness. “In that day,” says the Lord, “I will strike every horse with confusion, and its rider with madness; I will open My eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.” Zachariah 12:4

“In that day” refers to the Day of the Lord, and all those who raised a hand to heave away their burden of Jerusalem will suffer the retribution coming from the hand of God. They will suffer confusion, madness, and blindness because the power center of thing which gives them what to feel, do, think, and say will be destroyed and plunged into darkness, as quoted below,

Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues because of the pain. They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and did not repent of their deeds.

Revelation 16:10-11

When the power center of the beast is plunged into darkness, there will be madness instead of fabricated physical and mental comforts of peace. There will be confusion and blindness instead of heightened intuition and uncanny knowledge. There will be no more uncanny coordination from person to person, city to city, state to state, nor nation to nation.

How is the power center of the beast plunged into darkness? The intensity of global warming can be pointed to as the reason, which comes just before the blackout of the power center of the beast, as quoted below,

Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.

Revelation 16:8-9

The Battle of Armageddon comes after the power center of the beast is plunged into darkness, as described in the Sixth Plague of the Revelation 16:12-16.

1. Global warming comes as the Fourth Plague.
2. The power center of the beast is plunged into darkness as the Fifth Plague.
3. The Battle of Armageddon comes as the Sixth Plague.
4. Jesus Christ comes during the Seventh Plague when the Seventh Trumpet sounds.

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Strength is in the Lord who brings fiery power of Holiness against a spiritually wicked world. “And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are My strength in the Lord of hosts, their God.’” Zachariah 12:5

In their heart, the governors of Judah will say that God is the strength of Jerusalem, and He is indeed the Lord and God of Jerusalem. That is said in the day when God brings retribution against the global government of the beast which brought destruction, affliction, persecution, corruption, and spiritual wickedness to Jerusalem. For those holding to the testimony of Jesus Christ during that time, they will see God’s retribution coming against the enemies of Israel. The Christians will rejoice and say that God is indeed the God of Jerusalem.

“In that day I will make the governors of Judah like a firepan in the woodpile, and like a fiery torch in the sheaves; they shall devour all the surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the left, but Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place—Jerusalem.” Zachariah 12:6

The verse above is referring to the time after the global tribulation and the retribution of God is on the earth, which was written about in the previous section. After the great tribulation and Battle of Armageddon, this present heaven and earth will be destroyed. Then the New Jerusalem comes within the new heaven and new earth and will be inhabited by every person faithful to the testimony of Jesus.

The fire refers to the Holy Spirit who is the One who destroys sin to perfect the Holiness of God. When the Day of the Lord comes, it is the fire of the Holy Spirit bringing retribution to a spiritually wicked world. It perfects the Holiness of God and prepares each Believer to enter through the gates of the New Jerusalem. Jesus Christ is from the Tribe of Judah, born of the Spirit of God and the essence of the Holy Spirit. When He comes, He will be bringing His armies (His governors of Judah) with Him by the fiery power of the Holy Spirit.

In a sense, we can say we are seeing the firepan in the woodpile today as the global government of the beast is in the world. With the global government, we see the thing in the world which forms thoughts, feelings, behaviors and words to enable the image of the beast to live and peak through people. People are being groomed to the mark of the beast.

Global warming is also in the world and in its intensity is the Fourth Plague, as written about in the previous section. The woodpile becomes a torch of the Holy Spirit in the sheaves of spiritual wickedness as vengeance is brought against the global culture of the beast. This world will be destroyed, and Salvation only comes to the family of God through Jesus Christ.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

The followers of Christ become first, and the Jewish people become last. “The Lord will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall not become greater than that of Judah.” Zachariah 12:7

The tents of Judah are those who are born of Jesus Christ (Jesus is of the Tribe of Judah and called the Lion of Judah). Being a tent refers to Christians being the tabernacle of the Holy Spirit by the remission of sin through Jesus. The house of David and inhabitants of Jerusalem refer to the Jewish nation. There are a few Jewish people who acknowledge Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Even then, the Jewish people will not excel in favor over Christianity. The followers of the Lord Jesus become first, and the Jewish people becomes last.

All through the Bible, it refers to the first being last and the last being first, which describes the relationship between the Jewish people and the followers of Christ. The Jewish people were first in that they existed before the followers of Christ, but Christianity became first because we came to God through Jesus. The Jewish people rejected the Lord Jesus and were even responsible for killing Him. In that light, we see why the followers of Jesus Christ has become first and the Jewish people last.

As the Bible says in the verses below, the older serves the younger,

For they are not all Israel who are of Israel, nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, “In Isaac your seed shall be called.” That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed. For this is the word of promise: “At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son.”

And not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived by one man, even by our father Isaac (for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls), it was said to her, “The older shall serve the younger.” As it is written, “Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”

Romans 9:6-13

In the Day of the Lord the feeble will be eternally redeemed. “In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; the one who is feeble among them in that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the Angel of the Lord before them. It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.” Zachariah 12:8-9

In the Day of the Lord, the destruction of spiritual wickedness is going to happen and is a day when the global government of the beast meets its end. The Holiness of God is coming against the blasphemous thing which sits in the temple of God, our body, as if it were God. It does that by forming what people think, feel, do, and say as it enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people. By what they say and do they come against Jerusalem and Christianity. They are groomed to the mark of the beast and live in every city in every nation round the world. When God destroys them, He is destroying all the nations which come against Jerusalem.

When the population of Jerusalem sees the destruction of their enemies, the feeble among them, usually associated with age and illness, will be like the little boy David facing the soon to be defeated Goliath. The feeble are like those holding to their ancient faith in God, while embracing Jesus Christ, but being spiritually sick in a world hostile to God, Jesus, and Jerusalem. In the Day of the Lord, those faithful feeble ones will be taken to be eternally with the Lord Jesus. They will be redeemed to have their eternal body and be eternal like God, like the Angel of the Lord.

The Day of the Lord is also the day when all of Christianity around the world, all the feeble holding to the testimony of Jesus, will also be strengthened in the spirit of David. They will see the giant falling and will see the coming of Jesus Christ. On that day, all Christians will be redeemed to be given our eternal body to be like God, to be like the angel of the Lord. We will be taken into the eternal New Jerusalem.

In the Day of the Lord there is mourning for those who rejected Jesus Christ.  “And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication;” Zachariah 12:10a.

I can see the unbelieving Jewish nation, all of the unbelieving Israelis, and all those of the unbelieving State of Israel feeling overwhelmed by the feeling of grace to see their enemy being defeated. They would be so full of prayers believing their day of tribulation was over. Until they look and see from who their moment of earthly salvation is from,

“…then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.” Zachariah 12:10b.

The unbelieving Jewish people will look up and see that their moment of earthly salvation came from the One they rejected and whom they crucified. They will recognize Jesus Christ. They will see the piercing of the spear that went through His heart, and the piercings in His hands and feet. For them, His return will not be a day of rejoicing but a very, very, sad day of mourning. It will be the mourning of grief and death like a parent mourning for the death of a child.

“In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.” Zachariah 12:11

Megiddo is associated with the Battle of Armageddon and Megiddo means, “Mound of the Governor.” The people who mourn the return of Jesus Christ are those who were living for the global governor. That governor is the thing which forms what they think, feel, do, and say, and it leads the world into great tribulation and the Battle of Armageddon. The people who live by that governor welcomes the image of the beast to live and speak through them as they are groomed to the mark of the beast. The Holy Spirit warns us about that, as quoted below,

“If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. 

He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.”

Revelation 14:9-11

“And the land shall mourn, every family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by itself, and their wives by themselves; all the families that remain, every family by itself, and their wives by themselves.” Zachariah 12:12-14

Every single person on this earth is individually responsible for coming to God through Jesus Christ.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1