12.29.2015 Old Testament: Zec 11.7–11

To read the Bible in a year, read Zechariah 10–12 on December 29, In the year of our Lord 2015

By Don Ruhl

Zechariah 11.12 begins the prophecy of Judas and his betrayal of the Lord, but what do the previous verses say?

So I fed the flock for slaughter, in particular the poor of the flock. I took for myself two staffs: the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bonds; and I fed the flock. I dismissed the three shepherds in one month. My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me. Then I said, “I will not feed you. Let what is dying die, and what is perishing perish. Let those that are left eat each other’s flesh.” And I took my staff, Beauty, and cut it in two, that I might break the covenant which I had made with all the peoples. So it was broken on that day. Thus the poor of the flock, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the Lord (Zechariah 11.7–11). 

The Lord had problems with His people and they did not like Him, but there were some who knew that all this was of the Lord, and to Him they clung and carried His message to the rest of the world.