Zechariah Chapter 9

As well as the doom and gloom prophesied for Aram and Damascus, Hamath, Tyre and Sidon, this chapter is also all about the Messiah, Jesus Christ.

It is amazing to think that these words were written some 500 years or more before Jesus was born, and yet it all came to pass just as it is written in verse 9. then in verse 10, this prophesy has yet to be fulfilled. I love the way the bible does that - like a huge Persian carpet with everything fitting together into one beautiful pattern. You can examine the detail here, the pattern there, but it is not until you step back and look at the whole thing, the whole bible, that you get the full picture. How can you understand the grace and mercy of God, the great sacrifice He made for us, if you do not read the New Testament, and how can you appreciate just how deeply and steadfastly he loves us, without reading the Old Testament? They fit together like pieces of a jigsaw, and the picture on the jigsaw is Jesus.