Zechariah 12

Zechariah 12:1-9

These promises began to be accomplished in the victories of the Jews over the Syro-grecians, and other enemies, in the time of the Maccabees; but will be more fully accomplished in the destruction of the Turks, who shall attack the Jews when newly returned from their present dispersion. They have also an accomplishment in the Lord’s making all the attempts of Jews, Heathens, or Antichristians, against his gospel-church, to issue in their own destruction, and the glorious deliverance and protection of his people. And in both cases deliverances, temporal or spiritual, are attended with a plentiful effusion of the Spirit and deep repentance for sin. 10—14. [See Introduction, chap. iv. sect. xviii. xix.]

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XII.—Thrice happy are they who have the Almighty JEHOYAH, and all the burdens and blessings of his word on their side! He will effectually render his church and ministers a terror to all their opposers, as he hath done from age to age. For easily he can infatuate the counsels, and enfeeble the courage and strength, of their enemies. Happy are they whose strengthener, protector, and peace-making governor, is the Lord and his Christ! And thrice happy is it when the destruction of enemies is attended with an out-pouring of the Holy Ghost upon all ranks great and small; and when magistrates and ministers are patterns to others in evangelical, bitter, and particular, humiliation for sin