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.
The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Zec 12:10.
This Scripture has yet to be fulfilled. It is part of our journey through the theme of RESTORATION and we are coming towards the end of this journey in Scripture. In this we have looked at the historical situation leading up to the Captivity and what God did in placing prophetic voices in strategic places in bringing insights and processes into God’s people that God had not forgotten His people, and would bring them into eternal completeness. I believe this episode to be the only collective vision a nation would ever have of the Lord Himself. It marks a reconciliation.
A Pouring before the Looking
There have been many revivals of faith throughout the Gentile Church over 2000 years. And this outpouring upon Jerusalem and its surroundings marks a new season. It marks the end of the Gentile era, in which God would save through the Blood of Christ over this 2000 year period. How many generations would that be? Now we see through this Scripture a change. I believe this change is imminent, as this prophecy is of the few not yet fulfilled in any part of history. It seems throughout this mysterious rejection of Jesus as the Messiah, the path the Jewish/Israeli people has been a hard one, they have prospered in part, and the culmination of many hard periods of history is the 2nd World War, where 6 million Jews were slaughtered in the Holocaust. Even this event is disputed and even denied. This outpouring is 2 facets to a move of Jesus. There is grace and supplication.
חֵן chên, khane; from 2603; graciousness, i.e. subj. (kindness, favor) or objective (beauty):—favour, grace (-ious), pleasant, precious, [well-] favoured.
James Strong, A Concise Dictionary of the Words in the Greek Testament and The Hebrew Bible (Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 2009), 41.
The Grace for which God will pour is unlike anything that the Jews and Israelites have experienced before. There has been a hardness of the centuries, the persecutions and the crusades and holocausts. Now God will show Himself Gracious. There will be a revelation of God where He shall show Himself as a Covenant keeping God and reaffirm His Love and Covenant with them. I believe this Grace will bring an aspect of healing with it.
תַּחֲנוּן tachănûwn, takh-an-oon´; or (fem.)
תַּחֲנוּיָה tachănûwnâh, takh-an-oo-naw´; from 2603; earnest prayer:—intreaty, supplication.
James Strong, A Concise Dictionary of the Words in the Greek Testament and The Hebrew Bible (Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 2009), 123.
A spirit of drawing and prayer will come upon His Elect. They will cry out, a similar cry to that of Revelation 22:16, where both the Bride and the Spirit will cry out for the Messiah. This entreaty will bring these Israelites and Jews into a place of intimacy with the Lord. It is a deep intercession. I believe this to be the pinnacle of the RESTORATION we have been dealing with concerning the Captivity. I see this moment not just prophetic of what we have seen with the Captivity, and the lessons we have drawn from that period, the prophetic supervision, we are now moving into the greatest RESTORATION of the Israelites in modern history. This is not just a return to a land, but a recognition of their Messiah. This prayer and supplications prepares their hearts for the next phase of this restoration, yet to come, which will shift God’s activity and end time purpose for the world. When the Church sees this they may make mistake it for a revival. It is in part, but it is a preparation.
They shall Look and Recognize
Many years ago the Lord spoke to me, I believe, concerning this collective vision. It won’t be a few Israelites or Jews. It will be all those that God will bring to Jerusalem. It will be thousands upon thousands. I meditated upon what they would see. They would see a King first, then they would notice the wounds of the Crucifixion. His crown will not be of gold but of thorns. At this point they will see the place where they diverted from the way. However having said that we see that Paul approaches this mystery in Romans 10,11. He speaks to the Jewish rejection, as being the doorway to the Gentiles becoming partakers of the same Grace. So they will recognise a King, but a King whom they rejected by way of the way He manifested in this life. I think it such a privilege that they should by vision see the Lord as He is. Just as the Apostle John saw the Lord, with His wounds but glorified and exalted. I believe more than ever we need this revelation of Jesus. This was an Early Church qualification of apostleship that they would have a personal interaction with Jesus. Here the Jews would all with their open spiritual eyes, through the move of prayer and supplications would see. Oh that we would also see.
And what they would see is their King, who would put aside forever their enemies. Their King who would lead them to an eternal promised land.
They shall mourn as for a firstborn
The result of this powerful revelation of King, Lord and Messiah, will bring a mourning in Jerusalem like never before experienced. This mourning shall be the precursor to a worldwide river of cleansing that shall affect the world through. It may also be the receiving of a new heart of Ezekiel 36, when the promise of the Lord through Ezekiel promised a replacement of heart, not of stone but flesh. One which He would write His laws on their heart. The death of a loved one is so deep in terms of the mourning. There being no more strength nor emotional balance to begin to make up for the years of pure rejection, yet in that place of brokenness God by His Grace and Tenderness bringing them into fellowship with the Messiah, who they had been prepared for in Babylon. They shall have to change position.
It is interesting that in Galatians Paul tells us he spent considerable time in Arabia. In that time we know much of the learning he received as a Pharisee needed to be adjusted and this process it is believed to be about 3 years. This is how we get his interpretation of the Jewish rejection of Jesus, its purpose and God’s unchanging purpose for Israel. His eschatology had to change and as such teaching the Church what they needed to expect. How much more the adjustment these last days Israelites would need to make.
Last words
I believe that beyond the upheavals, terrorism, wars in the Middle East there is another purpose at hand. The Gentile Church needs to be prepared that God’s primary focus will shift to Israel. I believe that time is at hand. Many are talking about the rapture, immiment, my own study shows this to be erroneous. I see a shift of the world, to restore the Israelites to their Messiah, and the Church must provoke Israel to Jealousy. This is the shift of role for the Church. We must prepare for it, we must teach it. We can get so locked into the Gospel Jesus, but fail to see what God, what Jesus is about to do. He will appear to His Elect reminding them of His unchanging Love. Many speak of world war 3, I believe that God commands the end time agenda and as such this happening is crucial to the end times. May we prepare, may we recognize. May we prepare in the same spirit of prayer and supplication that God has afforded to us.
Maranatha!
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