Zechariah 11 is a difficult chapter to decipher and has struck me as incredibly interesting. The biggest clue is the thirty pieces of silver, the price for a slave gored by a ox, which connects it easily to the price Judas Iscariot took to betray Christ, which after his death he threw on the temple floor full of regret. So the first section is dealing with the rejection of Jesus Christ by the Jews at His first coming and the destruction in A.D. 70 of the Jewish nation for rejecting God and their Messiah. And the three shepherds destroyed in one month were believed to be the priests, elders and scribes, as the religious leaders of Israel along with the temple were no more. But then it moves to the worthless shepherd and things get very interesting.
Zechariah 11:15–17
[15] Then the LORD said to me, “Take once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd. [16] For behold, I am raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for those being destroyed, or seek the young or heal the maimed or nourish the healthy, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.
[17] “Woe to my worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye! Let his arm be wholly withered, his right eye utterly blinded!” (ESV)
This seems to point to Antichrist being raised up at the end of the age, and God says He is raising him up as judgement. Now the interesting part is the sword striking his arm and his right eye which can symbolize his strength and intelligence, but we also have Revelation 13:3 which might indicate the Antichrist receiving a seemingly fatal head wound with false resurrection.
Revelation 13:3–4
[3] One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. [4] And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?” (ESV)
And another interesting clue is that Islam which is a religion from Satan, as even Muhammad originally thought his visions were from demons continuing on encouraged by his wife, and Islam has the Dajjal which coincides with Christ in His Millennial reign and is their antichrist who makes the earth green, bringing rain, and able to kill and restore back to life. Consequently, Satan has made the Dajjal blind in his right eye which always struck me as odd given his miraculous powers. And Islam has mentioned sanctuary cities for Muslims to remain until the Dajjal is killed by Isa (Muslim Jesus) and the Mahdi (Muslim Messiah), which might indicate a large Muslim faction rejecting Christ that rises up in the Millennial Kingdom to be an army for Satan when released at the end, as even in the perfect world system humans will reject Jesus Christ. There is just too many coincidences here, and perhaps Satan who will probably inhabit Antichrist is seriously annoyed about the wound and losing his eye in front of the world, which you’d have to take as God’s sign this man is not God as he claims. And we know Christ can restore the eyes of even those born blind as He and His signs are true.
Zechariah 11
The Flock Doomed to Slaughter
[1] Open your doors, O Lebanon,
that the fire may devour your cedars!
[2] Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,
for the glorious trees are ruined!
Wail, oaks of Bashan,
for the thick forest has been felled!
[3] The sound of the wail of the shepherds,
for their glory is ruined!
The sound of the roar of the lions,
for the thicket of the Jordan is ruined!
[4] Thus said the LORD my God: “Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. [5] Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, I have become rich,’ and their own shepherds have no pity on them. [6] For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, declares the LORD. Behold, I will cause each of them to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none from their hand.”[7] So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep traders. And I took two staffs, one I named Favor, the other I named Union. And I tended the sheep. [8] In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me. [9] So I said, “I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die. What is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed. And let those who are left devour the flesh of one another.” [10] And I took my staff Favor, and I broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples. [11] So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep traders, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the LORD. [12] Then I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver. [13] Then the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the lordly price at which I was priced by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD, to the potter. [14] Then I broke my second staff Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
[15] Then the LORD said to me, “Take once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd. [16] For behold, I am raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for those being destroyed, or seek the young or heal the maimed or nourish the healthy, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.
[17] “Woe to my worthless shepherd,
who deserts the flock!
May the sword strike his arm
and his right eye!
Let his arm be wholly withered,
his right eye utterly blinded!” (ESV)