All the nations will come against Israel. They will try to squash her. But God is with Israel and she will be like a pot of coals and they will be like dry tinder. All the nations who attack her will be destroyed. Not because Israel is great and powerful but because God is great and powerful among then.

“On that day the LORD will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that on that day the one who is weakest among them will be like David on that day, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD, before them. On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem (v. 8-9).

As for Israel the LORD will pour a spirit of grace and prayer upon them. And they will mourn. Their grief will be like as if they had lost an only child. Everyone will mourn and “they will look at Me whom they pierced” (v. 10). It is the mourning that comes from repentance.

The question now is this something that has already happened? And is this the Jewish people or the church?

It seems like it is a future event. Kind of like a Gog and Magog scenario where the people of the earth gather against Israel. Also the prophetic national repentance over the grief of having “pierced” Him. Pierced is a euphemism for killed. So that seems post Christ as well.

But is this the church or is this the Jewish people? When compared with Romans 9-11, it seems like this is likely the Jewish people. That there will be a great move of God when they realize that Jesus is their Jewish Messiah, that they pierced Him, and that their grief would be great. A grief that would lead to repentance and later restoration to God. But repentance at first.

If this is correct, then we still await the day when there will be a national turning of the Jewish people to Christ. There was some of this in the first century, but there’s much more to come. Let’s pray for that.