Zechariah 9:9-10 is a prophetic passage with a break: verse 9 was fulfilled at Christ's first coming, while verse 10 awaits the future Kingdom.
Verse 9 was fulfilled at Christ's triumphal entry, when He came lowly and riding on the foal of a donkey. Verse 10, which speaks of removing the chariot, horse, and battle bow and bringing peace to the heathen, belongs to the Tribulation and the Kingdom. Les Feldick therefore tells his students to put the prophetic cutoff right between verses 9 and 10.
Zechariah 9:9-10 — The passage contains both the fulfilled first-coming prophecy and the still-future kingdom prophecy in adjacent verses.
Zechariah 9:9 calls the daughter of Zion and the daughter of Jerusalem to rejoice, because her King comes to her—just, having salvation, lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. Verse 10 then promises a change: the chariot will be cut off from Ephraim, the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow will be cut off. The King will speak peace to the heathen, and his dominion will be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth. The passage therefore places the arrival of the King and the removal of war instruments side by side.
Les Feldick teaches that Zechariah 9:9 was fulfilled at Christ's first advent: on the triumphal Sunday, Jesus came riding on that little young donkey. He then identifies Zechariah 9:10 as the Tribulation and Armageddon, followed by the Kingdom, when the Lord speaks peace to the heathen and His dominion reaches from sea to sea and to the ends of the earth. Les repeatedly shows that this requires a prophetic cutoff. He tells students to put the break right between verses 9 and 10. He uses the same approach with Joel's prophecy, putting parentheses between the fulfilled first-advent portion and the still-future day of the Lord, and he reinforces the future kingdom through Zechariah 14's gathering of the nations against Jerusalem and through Zechariah 8, where Israel's promised kingdom is still future.
Yes. Les says verse 9 happened at the first advent, on the triumphal Sunday when Jesus came riding on a little young donkey. The KJV text describes the King as lowly, riding upon an ass and a colt, which is exactly the scene of the triumphal entry.
Les says verse 10 is the Tribulation and Armageddon, and then the Kingdom. The chariot, horse, and battle bow are cut off, and the Lord speaks peace to the heathen; His dominion runs from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth. Les connects this to Zechariah 14, where the nations are gathered against Jerusalem to battle—Armageddon—before the kingdom follows His second coming.
Because the first part of the prophecy is fulfilled and the rest is still future. Les instructs students to put the cutoff right between verses 9 and 10, since verse 10 is an interruption that waits for the Tribulation and the Kingdom. He illustrates the same pattern elsewhere by putting parentheses between the fulfilled portions of Joel's prophecy and the still-future 'great and terrible day of the Lord,' and by noting breaks in passages like Isaiah 61 and Daniel 9.
Yes. Les points to Zechariah 8:20-21 and says these promises had not yet come to pass in Israel's history—Solomon's and David's glory was not the promised Kingdom. So the kingdom promises in Zechariah 9:10 await the future.
Prophetic Break Pattern
Les shows that in Isaiah 61 and Daniel 9 the first part is fulfilled and the rest is future, modeling the same break he finds in Zechariah 9.
Zechariah 9:9-10 Fulfillment
Les identifies verse 9 with the triumphal entry at the first advent and verse 10 with the Tribulation and Armageddon.
Zechariah 14 and Armageddon
Les uses Zechariah 14, where all nations come against Jerusalem to battle, to confirm the future kingdom that follows the second coming.
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Parentheses in Prophecy
Les shows in Joel that first-advent verses were fulfilled and the following 'great and terrible day of the Lord' is still future, preparing the same parenthesis for Zechariah 9.
Israel's Kingdom Yet Future
Les points to Zechariah 8 and says Israel has not yet received the kingdom God promised; Solomon's and David's glory was not it.
Cutoff Between Zechariah 9 and 10
Les explicitly places the cutoff between verses 9 and 10: verse 9 is fulfilled, verse 10 is the future interruption before the worldwide kingdom.
Zechariah 9:9: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
This verse was fulfilled at Christ's first advent according to Les Feldick.
Zechariah 9:10: And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
This verse describes the future Tribulation and Kingdom in Les Feldick's teaching.
Zechariah 14:2: For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Les uses this verse to show the Armageddon context for the future kingdom.
Joel 2:30: And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
Les points to this verse as still-future, illustrating the parenthesis between first and second coming events.
Zechariah 8:20: Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:
Les uses this verse to show that Israel's promised kingdom has not yet occurred.
Yes. Les says verse 9 happened at Christ's first advent, specifically on the triumphal Sunday when He came riding on a little young donkey.
It describes Tribulation and Armageddon, and then the Kingdom: instruments of war are removed, peace is spoken to the heathen, and the Lord's dominion extends from sea to sea.
Because verse 9 is fulfilled and verse 10 is still future. Les places the cutoff right between the two verses.
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