There are wicked cults out there that teach Jesus as a created being rather than the One who is self-existent, and therefore eternal.
We, on the other hand, were created just as were the angels...all crated, and therefore everlasting rather than eternal.
Now, these verses have a double-whammy boomerang effect against a number of falsehoods purveyed by a number of groupings steeped in false teachings. Pay close attention to Who is speaking, and THEN what is said about WHO is speaking:
Zechariah 12:1-10
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah [and] against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem [shall be] my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, [even] in Jerusalem.
7 The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify [themselves] against Judah.
8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David [shall be] as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
10 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.
In the KJV, every time LORD is in all caps, such as we see here, the Hebrew clearly portrays YHWH, Yawheh, Jahovah, the Most High. Then we see that Yahweh had been pierced. In the Hebrew, every occurrence of LORD is pointed out in the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew dictionary as:
"yeh-ho-vaw'"
Angles are not addressed with that name, and no created being is addressed with that name, but only Deity.
This shatters the false teachings that Jesus was a created being who created everything and every one in creation and in the Heavens who are known as the creatures and the angels. This, along with other references in the Bible, also show that He was not formerly a mortal man since this same Lord and God stated:
Isaiah 44:8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared [it]? ye [are] even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, [there is] no God; I know not [any].
Two major systems of false teaching crash to the ground in just these two sections of scripture. They are undone!
The Lord is so very wonderful to have provided His Truth to us!
MM
We, on the other hand, were created just as were the angels...all crated, and therefore everlasting rather than eternal.
Now, these verses have a double-whammy boomerang effect against a number of falsehoods purveyed by a number of groupings steeped in false teachings. Pay close attention to Who is speaking, and THEN what is said about WHO is speaking:
Zechariah 12:1-10
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah [and] against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem [shall be] my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, [even] in Jerusalem.
7 The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify [themselves] against Judah.
8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David [shall be] as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
10 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.
In the KJV, every time LORD is in all caps, such as we see here, the Hebrew clearly portrays YHWH, Yawheh, Jahovah, the Most High. Then we see that Yahweh had been pierced. In the Hebrew, every occurrence of LORD is pointed out in the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew dictionary as:
"yeh-ho-vaw'"
Angles are not addressed with that name, and no created being is addressed with that name, but only Deity.
This shatters the false teachings that Jesus was a created being who created everything and every one in creation and in the Heavens who are known as the creatures and the angels. This, along with other references in the Bible, also show that He was not formerly a mortal man since this same Lord and God stated:
Isaiah 44:8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared [it]? ye [are] even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, [there is] no God; I know not [any].
Two major systems of false teaching crash to the ground in just these two sections of scripture. They are undone!
The Lord is so very wonderful to have provided His Truth to us!
MM