The End of False Prophets and Idols
Zechariah 13, verse 1. “In that day every place shall be opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Zechariah 13, verse 2. And it shall come to pass in that day,” says the Lord of hosts, “that I will utterly destroy the names of the idols from the land, and their remembrance shall be no more. I will remove the false prophets and the unclean spirit from the land. Zechariah 13, verse 3. “And it shall come to pass that if a man still prophesy, his father and his mother who begot him will say to him, ‘You will not live, for you spoke falsehoods in the name of the Lord,’ and his father and his mother who begot him will bind him when he prophesies. Zechariah 13, verse 4. And it shall come to pass in that day that the prophets shall be put to shame, each by his vision when he prophesies, and they will put on a leather skin of hair because they spoke lies. Zechariah 13, verse 5. And one will say, ‘I am not a prophet, for I am a tiller of the soil; a man brought me up thus from my youth.’ Zechariah 13, verse 6. And I will say to him, ‘What are these wounds in the middle of your hands?’ And he will say, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my beloved.’ Zechariah 13, verse 7. “O sword, raise up against My shepherds, and against My fellow-man,” says the Lord Almighty. “Smite the shepherds and draw out the sheep, and I shall bring My hand against the shepherds. Zechariah 13, verse 8. And it will come to pass in all the land,” says the Lord, “two of every three will be utterly destroyed and shall die, but the other third will be left in it. Zechariah 13, verse 9. And I shall bring the remaining third through the fire, and I shall try them as silver is tried, and I will prove them as gold itself is proven. He will call upon My name, and I will hear him, and I will say, ‘This is My people,’ and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”