Verse 9
"And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem."
The fulfillment of this is seen in the rise and fall of earth's powerful empires from the times of the First Advent to the present, as in turn, enmity was turned upon Christianity, and the source of the enmity fell. There is also an echo here of the ultimate fate of the whole rebellious earth whose nations shall at last find themselves arrayed against the Lord God Almighty as the end of time approaches. (See Revelation 18.)
The literal Jerusalem appears nowhere at all in these promises except for a time during which the true Israel of God continued to be mingled with the racial city. After Pentecost, such a mingling ceased.
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