Wounded in the House of My Friends

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #22

Wounded in the House of My Friends

“2 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD 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.
3 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 the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive: 5 But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.
6 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

7  Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.” (Zec 13:2-7 AV)

Wounded in the House of My Friends

The only reason for thinking that these words (Zech. xiii. 6) have reference to Christ is that he was wounded in the house of his professed friends. But they have no such application. They apply to the attitude and protests of the clerical shepherds at the Appearing of the Lord Jesus, when the people, with enlightened eyes, will exclaim:

“Surely our Fathers have inherited lies and vanity, and things wherein there is no profit” (Jer. xvi. 19);

and when they will cast down their idols

“to the moles and to the bats” (Isa. ii. 20).

The question:

“What are these wounds in thine hands?”

is addressed to the false prophets who wished to repudiate their profession. The whole paragraph, verse 2 to verse 6, is complete in itself, and has nothing at all to do with verse 7, which begins a new paragraph.

The “wounds” were characteristic of the false prophets, and are typical of clerical identification marks of the present day clergy, whom the Lord will make short work of on his Return.

As to wounds, see Isa. xliv. 5; Jer. xvi. 6, 7; Jer.xlviii. 37; 1 Kings xviii. 28.

F. G. J.

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