3892 — Ten Men and a Jew
By Editor
The verse reads, "Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you." The passage in general refers to the first coming of our Lord and Saviour, and the grace and blessing which He would pour out upon the world. So far as the Jews are concerned, God's blessings were confined to them. They could not see how God was going to work outside of themselves, but the prophet Zechariah tells them that there is coming a time when men of all nations — for we understand that the number ten is a representative number — would seek to the Jews for blessing. That would have been true throughout their entire history, if they had lived as God desired they should live. The nations surrounding them would have sought God in Judah. They would have seen God's wonderful law as Moses declares in Deut. 4:6-8. If God's children had been obedient to Him as they should, the nations all around them would have come and said, "What great nation is there, that hath statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law?" And God would have brought many of them to salvation through the faithfulness of His people. That is what the prophet Zechariah predicts. So Jesus declares in John 4:22, that salvation is of the Jews. The prophet Zechariah simply predicts that while salvation is of the Jews, and is offered through the Jews to the world, there will be those of all nations who will accept of it.