WHO BROKE GOD'S COVENANT?

I have been told by my dispensational friends that many in Israel violated and even broke God's covenant that he made with them as a nation. But, God has never will never and would never break his covenant with his people Israel.

If that is true...How then do we deal with Zechariah 11:10-11???

Zechariah 11:10-11 "And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it assunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people. And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD."

It appears from Zechariah, that God finally had enough with Israel breaking his covenant that he ultimately broke it himself.

Zechariah 11:14 "Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel."

Now we see that God destroyed any further connection between the Southern and Northern kingdoms of Judah and Israel.

Zechariah 11:14 "For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces."

Here God promises to send his own Shepherd (which would be the messiah, Jesus) and this shepherd would no longer heal the broken, feed the sheep or have any shepherd like concern for those about to be cut off. This shepherd is coming in judgment.

Zechariah 12:2 "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem."

In chapter 12 of Zechariah we have the time period set for these events...it is when God will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling, and he will lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. Historically this only happened once after the writing of Zechariah, and it was in 70 A.D.

As you read Zechariah's description of this judgment in chapter 12 he again confirms the timing by using the phrase "In That Day" seven times to highlight that all these things would happen concurrently in this awful Day of judgment. All of these things occurred in 70 A.D. when God finally put an end to the old mosaic covenant and forever abrogated his relationship with that rebellious nation Israel.