"By the blood of thy convenant I have sent forth prisioners out of the pit where there is no water."
2007-02-05 04:42:07 · 10 answers · asked by Tyler B 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Hebrew word translated "thy" (or "your") is actually in the feminine form, leading to the precise translation...
(Zechariah 9:11-12) Also, you, O woman, by the blood of your covenant I will send your prisoners out of the pit in which there is no water.
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Zechariah 9:11 is a prophecy which is primarily fulfilled during "the Lord's Day", the period of time since 1914 when Christ sat on his heavenly throne as the King of God's Kingdom.
The prophetic "woman" mentioned in this Scripture is same "woman" as the prophetic harlot named 'Babylon the Great' in Revelation. That harlotrous "woman" represents all of false religion which imprisons unwary adherents; harlotrous false religion pollutes itself with political and nationalistic alliances, while true religion pledges its allegiance to God alone. Harlotrous false religion has also proven to be obsessed with materialism and has worked to persecute the truly holy.
(Revelation 17:1-6) I will show you the judgment upon the great harlot... 2 with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication...4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and was adorned with gold and precious stone and pearls and had in her hand a golden cup that was full of disgusting things and the unclean things of her fornication. 5 And upon her forehead was written a name, a mystery: “Babylon the Great, the mother of the harlots and of the disgusting things of the earth.” 6 And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the holy ones and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus.
The "blood of your covenant" is the Messiah's blood, which enables the 'woman's prisoners' to be saved. Christ's shed blood instituted a new covenant to allow true Christianity to replace earthly Israel as God's covenant people.
(Jeremiah 31:31) “Look! There are days coming,” is the utterance of Jehovah, “and I will conclude with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant
(Matthew 26:28) for this means my ‘blood of the covenant,’ which is to be poured out in behalf of many for forgiveness of sins.
(Hebrews 12:24) Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and the blood of sprinkling
(Hebrews 13:20) God... who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an everlasting covenant, our Lord Jesus
(1 Peter 1:19) But it was with precious blood, like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb, even Christ's.
The "pit in which there is no water" alludes to the living water of bible truth, including the Gospel writings of the teachings of Jesus.
(Proverbs 18:4) The well of wisdom is a torrent bubbling forth.
(1 Corinthians 10:4) All drank the same spiritual drink. For they used to drink from the spiritual rock-mass that followed them, and that rock-mass meant the Christ.
(John 4:10) Jesus said to her: “If you had known the free gift of God and who it is that says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
False religion pretends to represent bible truth, but their formalistic facades of human tradition have proven to be "pits" and "broken cisterns" which fail to capture the Word of God. False religion cannot 'hold water', as it were:
(Jeremiah 2:13) There are two bad things that my [formerly godly] people have done: They have left even me, the source of living water, in order to hew out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that cannot contain the water.’
When the adherents of false religion eventually hear the message of bible truth, these thirsty ones recognize the refreshing Kingdom message and leave the "pit" of false religion. Even though most of the current system of things is totally dry of the bible's "living water", a Christian who is refreshed by the bible's message is moved to himself work to share that refreshing and certain "good news" of God's Kingdom as the solution to man's woes.
(Isaiah 58:11) Jehovah will be bound to lead you constantly and to satisfy your soul even in a scorched land, and he will invigorate your very bones; and you must become like a well-watered garden, and like the source of water, the waters of which do not lie.
(John 4:14) Whoever drinks from the water that [Jesus] will give him will never get thirsty at all, but the water that [Jesus] will give him will become in him a fountain of water bubbling up to impart everlasting life.
2007-02-05 06:12:23 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-02 09:39:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The release of the prisoners announced here would serve as a great encouragement for the Jewish people still in exile. Even thought the prisoners were living in the well-watered place in Persia ( Ez 1:1 ) ,they were in a place like a waterless pit in terms of their opportunity for spiritual nourishment. They were exhorted to return to the stronghold Jerusalem.
2007-02-05 04:55:09 · answer #3 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you,
I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit. (NIV)
Sometimes it helps to use several translations and to make sense. In this case KJV is still a very reliable source, but it helps to have a version that makes the English a little more modern. God is telling Jerusalem that he will free them because of the covenant he has made with them. There were several other nations earlier in the chapter that were not blessed. God is contrasting these two.
2007-02-05 05:05:35 · answer #4 · answered by cropdownunder 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus never said anything about such things. Only Paul, and Peter and Early Church leaders pretended that their interpretations of Jesus' words were supported by the old testament. Proof: Read what you have quoted. Then read the verses in front of that verse and the verse after that verse. If someone had not told you it was a prediction that Jesus would come to save the world, would you have ever reached such a conclusion?
More Important: Jesus spent his whole life showing us by example and teaching us how to go to Heaven. Teaching us to obey the 10 commandments, and teaching us to forgive each other. He died to show us he was serious about what he was teaching. God raised him from the dead to prove that life after death was possible. ------ Then Paul said "we are not under the law, we simply have to believe that Jesus died for our sins" -Jesus said no such thing. 90% or more of All Christian Churches believe Paul. I believe Jesus, not Paul.
In 1611 the Paul and Peter Christians were in power in the Church of England. So when they translated the Bible into English, they threw in words that tried to imply Jesus hinting about things that Paul had said. - The original Greek text illustrates that point.
Don't you think that If Jesus wanted us to ignore the 10 commandments (or not feel obligated to follow them), Jesus would have told us that specifically.
Don't you think if Jesus felt his blood would remove all our sins; past, present, and future sins; Jesus would have told us that in a clear and concise manner.
Jesus spent his life teaching us how to live, and forgive each other in order to go to Heaven. He never once said or implied "If you worship me, you will win a lottery ticket to Heaven"
Sorry Church Christians, you are resposible for your mistakes and sins. If you want to go to Heaven, you must be re-born into a harmony-loving person who no longer holds grudges, and who no longer feel that you have a right to hate or judge anyone else.
I am sorry, but no matter what Paul or Peter or your preacher says, Jesus' blood is not your lottery ticket to Heaven.
2007-02-05 05:00:02 · answer #5 · answered by MrsOcultyThomas 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
By the blood of thy covenant - Osorius: “Not by the blood of those victims of old, but by the blood of thy covenant, wilt thou be united to the empire of Christ, and so obtain salvation. As the Lord Himself says, This is the blood of covenant, which is shed for you.” “The gifts and calling of God are without repentance” Rom_11:29. That symbolic blood, by which, fore-signifying the New Covenant, He made them His own people, “Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words,” Exo_24:8, endured still, amid all their unfaithfulness and breaches of it. By virtue of it God would send forth her imprisoned ones “out of the” deep, dry “pit,” “the dungeon” wherein they could be kept securely, because life was not threatened (as in Gen_37:24). Out of any depth of hopeless misery, in which they seemed to be shut up, God would deliver them; as David says, “He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock and established my goings” Psa_40:2; and Jeremiah, “They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. I called upon Thy Name, O Lord; out of the low dungeon Thou hast heard my voice” Lam_3:53, Lam_3:55-56. Augustine, de Civ. Dei. xviii. 35. 3): “The dry and barren depth of human misery, where are no streams of righteousness, but the mire of iniquity.”
2007-02-05 04:47:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Zec 9:11 When I made a sacred agreement with you, my people, we sealed it with blood. Now some of you are captives in waterless pits, but I will come to your rescue
it has nothing to do with jesus.
2007-02-05 04:46:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
It sounds like the kind of bible verse that some bad horror movie would use as a basis for blood-thirsty zombies from hell to invade the earth.
hmm....I should start writing that one.
2007-02-05 04:47:29 · answer #8 · answered by Samurai Jack 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
the context is zechariah is prophecying about the coming of Christ and the deliverance of people ...
2007-02-05 04:49:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It points to Christ as the sacrificial lamb for the forgiveness (freedom) from our sins.
2007-02-05 04:44:56 · answer #10 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋