And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. Zech. 12:9, 10
>>> When every eye sees Him they will mourn. These are the Jews, whose forefathers pierced Him.
Israel, a remnant, will be saved during this time and it is apparent IMHO, that they come to this realization when they see Christ coming. THEY see Him and mourn, realizing that He was and is their true Messiah
So it may be significant then that Joseph, ruler of all Egypt, is a type of Christ in many ways, and his brothers did not recognize him for who he was until he revealed to them who he was - and he only did so when he preceived through Judah's words that Judah (who had been the one instigating the selling of Jospeh into slavery), had finally repented of what he had done, and was completely remorseful.
Joseph could have had them all put to death on the spot - he had all the power & authority of Pharaoh to do so - but he did not. Instead, he forgave them, and then the entire family came to live with Joseph in the adyllic land of Goshen, where they lived in peace, safety and prosperity until another Pharaoh arose who had not known Joseph (I'm not saying it's most defintely or most certainly a type of the millennium, but I bear it in mind).
“Nevertheless, I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you. Ezek. 16:60
“Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him: and all the tribes of the Earth will mourn over Him, so it is to be. Amen.” Rev.1:7
Israel was scattered for almost 18 centuries, but were brought back to their home once again. “but – As the Lord lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries where He had banished them. For I will restore them to their own land which I gave to their fathers.” Jer. 16:15
“Say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD, - Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land.” Ezek.37:21 The Jewish nation became a state in 1948/49. This gathering of Israel is significant.
Many scholars agree that this is when the clock started to tick, a sign that this would be the last generation that would see the end of the ages, the Gentile nations and the Second Coming.
Your understanding is partly good and partly faulty. There is a very important fact which, sadly, only Rabbis who don't even believe in Jesus will able to help Christians to stop missing regarding the Old Testament prophecies concerning Israel (because almost all Christians miss this):
Before I explain, notice that the New Covenant was promised not only the the Jews (i.e the house of Judah) but
also to the house of Israel (Jeremiah 31:31).
The Rabbis understand that from the days following the reign of king Solomon (i.e from the time that Israel became split into two kingdoms and for the rest of the Old Testament until its close), the prohecies of the Old Testament are
sometimes talking
only about the house of Israel (collectively a.k.a "Ephraim" in scripture, which were the ten Northen tribes of Israel),
and sometimes
only about the house of Judah,
and sometimes about both the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
Also, in the Old Testament prophetic books, the name "Israel" is sometimes speaking about
both the house of Israel and the house of Judah, but sometimes
only about the northern kingdom, i.e. the house of Israel, which is also often collectively called "Ephraim" in Biblical prophecy.
If you fail to understand the difference, you will not be able to distinguish (from the historic context of the prophetic passage of the scripture you are reading) which part of Israel is being spoken to. As a consequence, the full meaning will either remain completely lost to you, or you will remain
partially blinded (Romans 11:25).
This is referring to the northen part of Israel, i.e the house of Israel/Ephraim:
Isiah 7
7 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years
Ephraim shall be broken so that it shall not be a people.
9 And
the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.
Hosea 1-11a
8 And when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son.
9 And He said, Call his name Not-my-people. For you are not My people, and I will not be for you.
10 Yet the number of the sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered. And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there it shall be said to them, You are the sons of the living God.
11 Then the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel shall be gathered together, and shall set over themselves one head.
(The rest of the sentence in the last verse is a repeat of what was already said before regarding Israel being broken and its kingdom coming to an end in the Valley of Jezreel, and the fact that the ten northern tribes would go into exile).
If you fail to distinguish in every prophetic book which part of Israel is being spoken aboiut, you will be lost.
The good news is the Church will be translated, given new eternal bodies. We will be taken out of this Great Tribulation before it ends, before the wrath of God comes in full.
Bear in mind:-
1. That Israel experienced
tribulation under the hand of Pharaoh (who is a type of the beast), and Pharaoh's kingdom experienced
the plagues; and
2. That the New Testament makes a very clear distinction between the words
"tribulation" and
"wrath", and the seven bowls of wrath are also called
the seven last plagues in the Revelation.
Tribulation refers to the experience of (any) people - believers and unbelievers, Jews and Gentiles - and tribulation is not always experienced as a result of God's wrath coming upon those people:
For example, the
tribulation Christians experienced under the hand of Nero was
not as a result of God's wrath coming upon them, but the tribulation that the Jews experienced under the hand of Rome in A.D 70 was a result of God's wrath coming upon that generation. Luke 21:22-23 calls it
vengeance, distress and wrath coming upon them.
3.
Out of all the New Testament verses referring to tribulation, affliction, etc, only two of them (Romans 2:9 and 2 Thessalonians 1:6) are
not in the context of tribulation experienced by, or to be experienced by Christians. All the others are talking about tribulation as the experience of Christans (Luke 21:22-23 does not call the period it's talking about "tribulation", but "wrath")
4. There are only
three times in the New Testament that the tribulation being spoken of is so intense as to be called in the Greek
megas (great)
thlipsis (tribulation), and two of them are beyond dispute talking about great
a tribulation to be experienced by the saints (Revelation 2:22 and Revelation 7:14).
The only other time "great" tribulation is mentioned in the New Testament is in Matthew 24:21,
but verse 9 of the same passage is talking about the tribulation of those who believe in Jesus.
Just as your understanding of scripture will remain partly true and partly faulty if you fail to distinguish between the house of Israel and the house of Judah in the prophetic books, so it will remain partly true and partly faulty if you fail to distinguish between the Biblical meanings of the words "tribulation" and "wrath". The Christians will experience great tribulation under the hand of the beast, and for all we know (at least some of) the Jews who do not believe in Jesus will either help the beast, or be secretly gleeful when they see it. (But forget the "for all we know" part and what follows it, because it's not written). However, what is also not written is a pre-tribulation rapture of the saints (it's a pre-wrath resurrection followed immediately by a rapture, not a pre-"tribulation" rapture).