Falaite Tisema 29, 2023
The Pierced
Ko Ia Na’e Hoka Taoa
ZECHARIAH 12:10
"AND I WILL POUR OUT ON THE HOUSE OF DAVID AND THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM A SPIRIT OF GRACE AND PLEAS FOR MERCY, SO THAT, WHEN THEY LOOK ON ME, ON HIM WHOM THEY HAVE PIERCED. THEY SHALL MOURN FOR HIM, AS ONE MOURNS FOR AN ONLY CHILD, AND WEEP BITTERLY
OVER HIM, AS ONE WEEPS OVER A FIRSTBORN."
ZECHARIAH 12:10
Pea te u hua‘i ki he fale ‘o Tēvita, pea ki he nofo Selusalema, ‘a e laumālie nga-loto-mai mo anga–hū; pea te nau hanga kiate au kuo nau tui‘i, pea te nau tangilāulau ‘i he taha ko ē, hangē ko e tēngihia ‘o ‘ete me‘a pē taha. Pea te nau fakamamahi koe‘uhi ko ia, hangē ko e fakamamahi ‘i he funga ‘o ha ‘olopo‘ou.
Two weapons daqar ("pierce") someone: sword and spear. Phinehas used his spear to double-dagar a couple during their idolatrous intercourse (Num. 25:8). Abimelech's servant used a sword to dagar him (Judg. 9:54). When God, in Zechariah, says the Israelites will "look on me, on him whom they have daqar," he is referring to wounds by a sword or spear that result in death. They mourn for him as for a firstborn son.
While the Father's firstborn Son hung dead on the cross, "one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear" (John 19:34). "These things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled...: 'They will look on him whom they have pierced" (19:36-37).
In Revelation, when Christ returns, "every eye will see him, even those who pierced him" (1:7). We grieve because our sin caused those pierced wounds, but we also rejoice because in them is the sole source of our salvation, for "with his wounds we are healed" (Isa. 53:5).
Pour out on us, dear Father, the Spirit of your grace, that we might mourn our sin and rejoice in the healing wounds of our Savior.
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