Zechariah 12:1-9
"Jerusalem's enemies to be destroyed"
first things first... HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!!!!!!
ok, now that that's done...
This passage is described, at the beginning, as an oracle. God says that there will come a day when every nation on earth will rise against Judah and Jerusalem. The Lord will then make Jerusalem a rock that cannot be moved and every effort to do so will only amount to self-injury. The Lord says that he will blind and panic the horses of the enemy and encourage the hearts of Jerusalem. The leaders of Judah in this time will take heart because the Lord will be with them. God will also spare the houses of judah and strengthen the men to such a degree that even the feeblest, frailest men will be warriors comparable to David. On that day, the Lord will destroy Jerusalem's enemies.
This prophecy could very well be literal, but i have a very strong feeling that there is also a further, deeper meaning to this. Picture this as an image of part of the end times. Judah is the whole of Christianity and Jerusalem is the figurative, ideological stronghold of our faith (and also eventually the new Jerusalem, but that's after the end. The whole of the world is gearing up to battle and destroy Christianity. But the Lord afflicts the "soldiers" with madness and the "horses" with panic and blindness. the horses are that which steer the movement against Christians, while the soldiers are the individuals engaged in battle. This battle is not a physical one per se, but a spiritual one which affects the physical world in a variety of ways - physical, sociological, intellectual war and others of the kind. It must be noted, however, that the Christians do not stand alone. Their leaders are heartened by the presence of God and they all are strengthened, even the young christian that is still new to sunday school. the final result: God: "All your base are belong to us"; Satan & the world: "Someone has set up us the bomb". pretty cool, no?
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