sooda
Veteran Member
Some secular "interpretations" feel quite desperate.
Such theories as this are employed to EXPLAIN AWAY embarrassing things.
The Jews are adept at this when it comes to Jesus - they have no choice.
Zech 12 The Lord, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who
forms the human spirit within a person, declares: “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends
all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. On that day, when
all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all
the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves. On that day I will strike every horse with panic
and its rider with madness,” declares the Lord. “I will keep a watchful eye over Judah, but I will blind all
the horses of the nations. Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘The people of Jerusalem
are strong, because the Lord Almighty is their God.’
“On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves.
They will consume all the surrounding peoples right and left, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place.
“The Lord will save the dwellings of Judah first, so that the honor of the house of David and of Jerusalem’s
inhabitants may not be greater than that of Judah. On that day the Lord will shield those who live in
Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like
the angel of the Lord going before them. On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that attack
Jerusalem.
“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication.
They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child,
and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son. On that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be as
great as the weeping of Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo...
This isn't Cyrus.
"THEY WILL LOOK ON ME, THE ONE THEY HAVE PIERCED"
This is the same one whom came to the Jews originally as the lowly man who rode upon the colt.
Zecharia 14 is about the troops under Titus.. Soldiers from foreign countries within the Roman Empire fought with the Romans against Israel.. mostly Syrians and Egyptians.