12.29.2014 Old Testament: Zec 11.4–6

To read the Bible in a year, read Zechariah 10–12 on December 29, In the year of our Lord 2014

By Don Ruhl

When people turn to wickedness and refuse to leave it, even persecuting the Lord’s messengers who seek to turn those wicked people around, the Lord has no feelings of guilt for turning those people over to their enemies,

Thus says the Lord my God, “Feed the flock for slaughter, whose owners slaughter them and feel no guilt; those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich’; and their shepherds do not pity them. For I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land,” says the Lord. “But indeed I will give everyone into his neighbor’s hand and into the hand of his king. They shall attack the land, and I will not deliver them from their hand” (Zechariah 11.4–6). 

We have become accustomed to hearing so much of God’s grace, that the words of this prophecy might shock us. We might even look for someone who will tell us that these words cannot possibly mean what they appear to mean.

However, they do present the truth on the Lord. I think they express how He can cast people away from Him forever, and not feel bad about it.

Oh my friends, let us give diligence that such words never be said about us!