Charles Spurgeon Commentary Zechariah 13
Charles Spurgeon Commentary
Zechariah 13
Charles Spurgeon Commentary
Zechariah 13
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This author has written multiple commentaries over their lifetime on this chapter. We have grouped their commentaries for easier reading."In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness." — Zechariah 13:1 (ASV)
They will see that pardon when they have truly seen their sin.
Once the foulness of their transgression is perceived, then the fountain, the cleansing of sin, will be perceived too. No one ever knows the preciousness of the God-given remedy until he has felt the force of the terrible disease. No one by faith plunges into the crystal fountain of perfect cleansing without first lamenting the filthiness which needs to be removed.
"And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered; and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land." — Zechariah 13:2 (ASV)
Where there is pardon, there is sure to be sanctification. The idols must fall, and the false prophets must go. We cannot have our sins and have a Saviour too. If we have Christ to blot out our sin, we must have the same Christ to remove sin as to its authority, and power, and dominion over us.
"And it shall come to pass that, when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of Jehovah; and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth." — Zechariah 13:3 (ASV)
And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy,–
When any false prophet will still pretend to prophesy,–
Then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
So intense will be the hatred of false prophets, that people will not spare even their own children. They will abhor them when they stand up against the Lord of hosts and against his truth.
"And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered; and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land." — Zechariah 13:2 (ASV)
God will not only destroy the idols, but he will cut off their very names from the land, and they will no longer be remembered.
"And it shall come to pass that, when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of Jehovah; and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth." — Zechariah 13:3 (ASV)
It was a part of the law of God in the Book of Deuteronomy that any man who professed to be a prophet, and who sought to turn the people aside to the worship of idols, should be put to death. It is here declared that when God had cleansed the land, there would be no false prophets. And if any man pretended to be a prophet of the Lord when he was not sent by God, his own father and mother would be the first to execute judgment on him.
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