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Zechariah
Chapter
11
{Verses
1-11: False Shepherds}
{Principle
of Grace Before Judgement} {Note: This is a command to the communicators of doctrine. Zechariah is a prophet. Once he receives the message from God, it is written down. The priests then have the responsibility to feed their flocks this information. The 5th cycle comes only when the people leave the Way of God - and this often is the result of no correct feeding of the flock - either false doctrine or no doctrine is taught.}
{Verses
5-6: Prose Prophecy of the 5th Cycle}
{Two
Shepherd Staves (the plural of 'staff')} {Note: As long as God permits the two staves within a national entity the national entity is not going to be destroyed. But without the two staves no nation can survive. When the two staves exist within a national entity then there is the probability of the nation hearing Bible doctrine. The first staff is grace, God's grace in protecting the nation, especially from enemies without. The second staff is unity and has to do with the internal activities of a nation. When God breaks the first staff the nation is involved in war which usually destroys it, or in which it is defeated. When God breaks the second staff there is internal disorder and dissension.}
{Verse
8: Judgement of the Three Shepherds} {Note: RBT says Simon bar Gioras, John of Giscalla, and Eleazar bar Simon in the siege of Jerusalem in AD 70 are possibilities for the three shepherds, but it won't work out for a simple reason that they were not destroyed within one month. Instead, RBT says the three shepherds refer to the spiritual and political leadership of the Jews so were: the prophet (taught the spoken Word of God), the priest (taught the written Word of God), and the political ruler - all were gone in one month.}
{Verse
9: Judgement of the People in Jerusalem} {Note: This is the destruction of the food. In the siege of Jerusalem the food supply was destroyed. Two of the zealot parties started fighting each other by the granaries and one party set fire to the granaries. There was enough grain to supply them for about 25 years and it was all destroyed in one big fire. The historian Josephus said: "Immediately after the most awful depredations were committed to obtain food. Young strong men snatched food from children and from the aged. In many cases people would break into homes during meal times and take half-swallowed food right out of the throats of people. Soon the population was reduced to eating rats, bugs, dogs, etc. Soon they were eating dead bodies, shoes, belts, leather shields, bark off of the trees. They finally resorted to murder and cannibalism of their victims - even their own children - terrible, terrible conditions.}
{Verse
10: Breaking of the 1st Staff} {Note: None of this could happen unless God permits it. No nation ever goes down unless God breaks the staff. God has a staff, as it were, for each nation called grace - the preservation of that nation.} {Note: RBT says the covenant here is the one whereby God told the Gentiles to lay off attacking the Jews in Jerusalem. The covenant was actually a means whereby God protected the people of Israel. Breaking the staff means that the Jews are now vulnerable to conquest.}
{Verse
11: Biblical Orientation of Believers in this Greatest of Catastrophes}
{RBT
says a Chapter Break Should Be Here} {Note: Per Exodus 21:32, the price of a slave gored by a bull was 30 pieces of silver. This was literally fulfilled in Matthew 26:15. (The goring by a bull is a picture of the physical abuse of Jesus Christ on the cross).}
13~~And
Jehovah/God said unto me, {Note: This was acted out by Judas Iscariot after his betrayal of the Lord. He took the money and threw the coins down in the house of God and said, "These go for a potter's field". Once again the Jews have a warning from God via Judas Iscariot. Always God's grace gives maximum warning before the 5th cycle of discipline - which came roughly 40 years later in 70 AD. }
{Verse
14: Breaking of the 2nd Staff} {Note: This is the breaking of the nation into parties that are hostile to each other. This was one of the marked peculiarities of later Jewish history. This was true in 70 AD and this will be true again in the Tribulation.}
{Verses
15-17: Prophecy of the Future Tribulation} {Note: RBT says this is the dictator of Palestine in the Tribulation. He is called in Genesis 49:16-18 'Dan the serpent'. In Daniel 11:36-40, he is called the 'willful king'. In Revelation 16:13 and 19:20 he is called the false prophet. In Revelation chapter 13:11 and following, he is called the 'beast out of the land'. Here in verse 15 he is called the 'foolish shepherd', in verse 16 he is called 'he that will eat the flesh'. In verse 17 he is called the 'idol shepherd'. This is the rise of the last great dictator of the Jews, a Jewish dictator who is the false prophet. And he is to be the warning of the terrible events of the last half of the Tribulation.} {Note: The instruments are a reference to the staves again. There will be internal dissension and then God will withdraw His protection and there will be the invasion of the king of the north and the invasion of the 'kings of the sun rising' - the pan-Arabic bloc, etc.}
16~~"For,
lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, {Note: The foolish shepherd will not perform the normal functions of a ruler, the protection and care for his people. This is an analogy to sheep. The sheep that are cut off, the shepherd goes and gets them, but not the foolish shepherd. Healing the young sheep is again the work of a shepherd. Feeding is the work of a shepherd. These are analogous to the possibilities of political leadership and all of these are going to be removed.} {Note: Finally, this shepherd will 'eat their flesh'. RBT says this means that this dictator will actually destroy Jewish people. He will also be involved in destroying Moses and Elijah, the two witnesses. The claws refers to torture; the eating to outright killing.}
17~~Woe
to the idol shepherd {Note: The dictator here is called an 'idol shepherd' because of the 'abomination of desolation' - he agrees to have the idol put up in the Holy of Holies. Therefore the idol shepherd is going to have his arm cut with the sword, which means that his nation will be brought down. Then 'his right eye will be destroyed' is a picture of his intelligence - he can not 'see' and understand what is happening. This means that with all of his intelligence he cannot cope with the events at the end of the Tribulation.} ************************************************** Joshua_Sozo and Syndein are the Trademarks of Syndein a California DBA of Kenneth Sidley & Associates, Inc., a California Corporation. All rights reserved. Copyright© Syndein 1982-2010. All rights reserved. This page is sponsored by Kenneth Sidley, CPA, an Orange County California CPA (949) 706-3133. Please call Ken for high quality, low cost CPA services in Orange County California. This includes audit, review, compilation, tax returns, Quickbooks, and business consulting services. This page is sponsored by Moxxor For Pain Free Living. Moxxor is a highly concentrated Omega 3 product that has reduced inflammation in this writer. Please go to this website to read more about Moxxor.
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