Zechariah 11-12, Chuck Smith teaching (C2000, 1979 to 1985)

Read as you listen: Chuck Smith on Zechariah 11

Read the opening of his teaching

Tonight we have a fascinating area of scripture to cover. Pray the Lord will give me the gift of brevity. For we are surely getting into some exciting areas of biblical prophecy, as the Lord begins to speak of the events that will be transpiring in these last days. Some of them we see already in the beginning of their fulfillment. Others that will be fulfilled very shortly.

But before we get into the events of these last days, chapter 11 deals with the first coming of Jesus Christ, and His rejection, and His being sold for thirty pieces of silver. As Jesus said, "I came in My Father's name and you did not receive Me, but another one is coming in his own name, and him you will receive" (John 5:43). So here in the eleventh chapter it speaks about the true Shepherd that was rejected and the false shepherd that will be followed and accepted by the people.