These two verses are not parallels unless you are now giving Jesus Christ the title of "Jerusalem"..
Correct me If Im wrong, but Jesus doesnt equal = Jerusalem.
Zec 12:3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
Since when is Jesus a "burdensome stone"???
The same way He is the "Stone of stumbling and the Rock of offense"! Don't read into the passage, let it say what it says. It doesn't say Jesus is Jerusalem...it says "I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for ALL people". Think about how that happens.
Isa 28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
Sounds like Jesus is the "Precious cornerstone" not the "burdensome stone you are talking about..
So why did Jesus say "My burden is easy" when He said "come unto Me". The point then is Jerusalem becomes a burden because it is NOT literal Jerusalem. Remember what Jesus said to the "woman at the well"? John 4:21:
21 Jesus *said to her, Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
Why did He say that? Why does Paul say in Galatians 4:26:
26 But the Jerusalem above is free; she is our mother.?
Again Hebrews 12:22
22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,
23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.
Think about those passages.
It would be impossible for you to even try to attempt to refute the other prophecy, as its objectively unfulfilled.
Not in light of what the passage is REALLY saying in Zechariah 12:1-3. I think I provided that.
So, when did this verse happen?
Zec 12:10 "I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.
Remember what Peter said in his sermon at Pentecost...Acts 2
15 For these men are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only the third hour of the day;
16 but this is what was spoken of through the prophet Joel:
17 And it shall be in the last days, God says, That I will pour forth of My Spirit on all mankind; And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, And your young men shall see visions,...
So who pierced Christ? The Jews..
That's only ONE way of looking at it...Isaiah says "He was wounded for OUR transgressions..." that's everyone who comes to Christ.
When have the Jews looked on the "one they've pierced"
Every one of them have that has come to Christ...and yet there is coming a time when (as Paul says in Romans 11), that God will remove their blindness...and then they will see!
Never, because its a future prophecy, just as every prophecy that Ive given you thusfar.
Once again...I'll appeal to you to read Peter's Pentecost sermon...3000 Jews where saved that very day...who did they look on?
That prophecy worked then and in the future as I read it...and I read it for what it is "poetic prophecy"...it's loaded with poetry...this is why you cannot read it in the way you do. Allow the poetry to speak, search other scriptures, and let them reveal it.
