When Christ returns to earth at His Second Coming, to whom does He return specifically?
At His Second Coming, when Christ returns to this earth, He returns specifically to the nation of Israel. This is tied to Zechariah 12:10, and the Old Testament also presents a physical, visible manifestation of His resurrection, with wounds in His hands from the house of His friend.
Les explains that this return is the Second Coming, when Christ comes back to this earth. He has the listener turn to Zechariah, the next-to-last book of the Old Testament, specifically Zechariah 12:10, to show that He returns specifically to the nation of Israel. Les then points to Zechariah 13:6, where the prophet records the question about wounds in His hands and the answer, "with which I was wounded in the house of my friend." He stresses that this is Old Testament, not New Testament, yet it gives a physical, visible manifestation of His resurrection. The Spirit does not have hands or feet, but this One is bodily. Les then says to come back to the New Testament and see what the Apostle Paul says in II Corinthians chapter 4.
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
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When is Zechariah 12:10 fulfilled, and to which nation does Christ return at that time?
Zechariah 12:10 refers to an event that will happen at Christ's Second Coming, when He returns to this earth specifically to the nation of Israel.