“In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.” (v.1)
Zechariah 12 ended with Israel’s return to the LORD through the once rejected but now embraced Messiah. Flowing from their embrace of the Messiah they would then enjoy a fountain of cleansing for sin and for uncleanness (v.1). The cleansing comes after their mourning for the One whom they have pierced.
The idea of God being a fountain to His people is found frequently in the Old Testament, but Zechariah’s writing is possibly the richest of all. Concerning this idea Spurgeon remarks, “According to the passage before us this provision is inexhaustible. There is a fountain opened; not a cistern nor a reservoir, but a fountain. A fountain continues still to bubble up, and is as full after fifty years as at the first; and even so the provision and the mercy of God for the forgiveness and the justification of our souls continually flows and overflows.”
So, there is this never-ending reservoir of cleansing power available to us through God’s fountain. It is His supply, and one must come to Him and ask to be cleansed, for nothing else can cleanse. Our own works at reform or restitution can’t cleanse us; our past, present, or promised future works can’t either – only His fountain can. And, as the following old hymn explains;
There is a fountain filled with blood,
Drawn from Immanuel’s veins;
And sinners, plunged beneath that flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.
(William Cowper)
If you would like to have your sin cleansed by His fountain just pray the prayer (Connect With God) to the right hand side of this page. God Bless.
The Truth: “If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.” (1 John 1:7)
