Zechariah 2:10

"Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion; for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith Jehovah."

The glory of God's people is ever that of his presence among them. Although typical in the experience of ancient Israel, in whom God's presence was manifested, it was but a feeble and inadequate type of God's holy Spirit indwelling the Lord's Church. The many sins and rebellions of the people were continual impediments. The promise here overreaches the fate of earthly Jerusalem and applies gloriously to the Church of Jesus Christ. "This was fulfilled in the coming of the Holy Spirit to live in the Church."[26]

It is a gross error to apply this passage as if it meant Jesus would appear physically and personally in Jerusalem and reign during a millennium on earth from that literal city. Nor can there be any accuracy in the notion that: "This prophecy was fulfilled when Zerubbabel completed and consecrated the Temple in 516 B.C."[27] There is no evidence whatever that God in any sense ever dwelt in the Second Temple; and even the first was contrary to the will of God in significant particulars. "Josephus regarded the building works of Herod Agrippa as its literal fulfillment";[28] but we believe all such "fulfillments" were as nothing compared to the glorious realization of these wonderful promises in the worldwide glory and success of the church of Jesus Christ throughout this whole dispensation of the grace of God. It is tragic that many scholars never seem to catch on to the magnificent Messianic thrust of this marvelous chapter.

Mitchell, for example, allowed only that Zechariah was "attempting" to predict the future, alleging that what he predicted never came to pass. "The prophecy does not harmonize with conditions either before or after the time of the prophet! The city did not prosper as he expected."[29] One may only pity the spiritual blindness that underlies so bold and inaccurate a declaration. The incredibly beautiful and impressive truth that salvation from sin and the gift of eternal life are now available to every one on earth who will receive and obey the gospel of Christ and the equally astounding truth that men all over the world, in every nation on earth, are taking God at his word and receiving life are but tokens of the colossal, earth-shaking fulfillment of this prophecy. Jerusalem (in the spiritual sense) is indeed greater than any wall seeking to contain her. Her prosperity exceeds anything else ever known on the planet earth.