As a fulfilment, in September 1982 a massacre of 800 Palestinians civilians was carried out by Lebanese Phalangist forces in Beirut. Their way in was facilitated by the Israeli army (who claim to be of David's house). These killers opened up "your doors, O Lebanon" (Zech 11:1). This is just one example of majestic ones of Lebanon being "despoiled". (11:3). Of these forces it says: "…and they will certainly crush to pieces the land, and I shall do no delivering out of their hand." (11:6). There have been many battles (crushing to pieces the land) between military factions in Lebanon (each one "in the power of his neighbour". 11:6 NEB). And "shepherds" have been effaced (eliminated). (Zech 11:1-17 NWT & NEB).

"I took my staff called Favour and snapped it in two, annulling the covenant which the Lord had made with all nations". (11:10 NEB). Because of the foregoing events, afflicted ones "got to know" that God's favour through the "good news" of faith in Christ, and the ingathering of all the holy ones, had indeed come to a finish. (Rev 10:7). God's covenant of Favour and Union, the provision of His spiritual directives to unite peoples through faith, must have been broken long after the death of The Christ. Evidence of this is in the prophetic words: "For I shall show compassion no more upon the inhabitants of the land... So here I am causing mankind to find themselves", each one "in the power of his neighbour." (Zech 11:6 NWT & NEB). Was not the new covenant by His Christ the showing of compassion? Of course it was. Therefore, "compassion no more" must be after the new covenant by The Christ had been successfully concluded. (Heb 12:22-24).

Immediately after the massacres in Lebanon, demonstrations took place in the streets of literal Judah; the unity of "brotherhood" between Judah and Israel was certainly broken. (Zech 11:14 NWT. See NEB). Consequently, God's words of "Strike the shepherd, and let those of the flock be scattered; and I shall certainly turn My hand back upon those who are insignificant", now apply. (Zech 13:7). However, the significance of the faith of these least ones was established when the Prince of the host (The Christ Michael) witnessed his "sanctuary" class (Spirit anointed brothers of Christ) being "thrown down", "trampled" on, and removed by the "disgusting thing" "standing in a holy place". (Dan 8:11,12. 11:31. Matt 24:15).

We can now understand the Word of Jehovah in Zechariah 13:8,9: "And it must occur in all the land," is the utterance of Jehovah, "that two parts in it are what will be cut off and expire; and as for the third part, it will be left remaining in it. And I shall certainly bring the third part through the fire; and I shall actually refine them as in the refining of silver, and examine them as in the examining of gold. It for its part, will call upon My Name, and I, for my part, will answer it. I will say, 'It is My people,' and it, in its turn, will say, 'Jehovah is my God." (NWT). Striking Spirit anointed ambassadors of The Christ has brought about the refining of this "third part". These insignificant (least) ones have been gathered by being refined out from the dross that is the "disgusting thing" "standing in a holy place". Among those that will be cut off and expire are "Ahab" and "Jezebel" types and their subjects, many of whom also have the satanic mark 666. A "well" for sin and abhorrence is to be opened for natural Jews. (Zech 13:1).

THE "WELL" "FOR AN ABHORRENT THING." (Zech 13:1).
We all inherited Adamic sin, but an abhorrent thing we did not. An example of an abhorrent thing is a deliberate act of idolatry after accurately knowing the requirements of God. From the standpoint of God, it is by a spirit of uncleanness when one claims to be a god. (2 Thess 2:3-12). Remember Elijah mocking the prophets of baal? "Call at the top of your voice, for he is a god; for he must be concerned with a matter, and he has excrement and has to go to the privy." (1 Kings 18:27). Elijah was showing the people that the god of these men was really themselves; hence the meaning of "dungy idols". They were even "cutting themselves" in wilful stubbornness in their attempts to persuade the people of their spiritistic beliefs.

To discern and explain the Word of God to others is not the foretelling of future events or acting as a false prophet with a spirit of uncleanness. It is the giving of glory to God. The "well" represents the cleansing properties of the "waters" of spiritual discernment of God's Word, cutting off "the names of the idols out of the land" and "the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness". (Zech 13:2).

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