Chapter 12 opens using the personal name of God, Yahweh, God's name is used over and over in these chapters. Every time you see LORD in all caps the scripture is referring to Yahweh, the personal name of God, the name God revealed to Moses. These last chapters of Zechariah are a cause for great hope and great fear. Great hope because of the future promise for God's children and those that belong to HIM, great fear because so many are cut off. Dr. Rogers used to say "everyone talking about heaven isn't going." Matt chapter 7 comes to mind...
Mt 7:21-23
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT YOU MAY LOOSE YOUR SALVATION! The last line in Matt states that "I never knew you." To me this simply means that countless millions are deceived into believing that they are saved.
Jud 21
21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
If you look at verse 20 in Jude the way you keep yourself in the love of God is by praying in the Spirit. How do we do that? I believe that as we spend time in HIS presence with HIS Word, seeking HIM, acknowledging our desperation on and for HIM...HE will, as Zechariah 12:10 states, pour out a spirit of grace and prayer...we will see HIM, behold HIM and delight in HIM. We will mourn and weep bitterly as we see ourselves as we are in the light of HIS presence, understanding that it was MY sin that pierced HIM. After the mourning comes intense and passionate joy...as we fix our eyes on Jesus we are transformed to HIS likeness, we are conformed to HIS image and that is cause for incredible hope, joy and celebration.
As HIS children we are called to live in the light of our future not in the darkness of our past. Too often I allow my past to have greater influence over my thinking than my future.
Zec 12:10
Mourning for the Pierced One
10 “Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, and they will look at Me whom they pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for Him as one weeps for a firstborn.
Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer and they will look at Me whom they pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for Him as one weeps for a firstborn.
Holy Spirit of God, please remove the veil from the eyes of my heart and enable me to clearly see, by faith, my LORD and Savior Jesus Christ...enable me to live today in the brilliant, beautiful light of my future with YOU, my King, my LORD, my Savior, my ABBA, my Father...in Jesus Name...amen.