Zechariah, as well as other passages in the Scriptures, predict a future that will be even a more horrific experience for the Jewish people than the Holocaust. Prior to WW2, the Jewish population worldwide was approximately eighteen million. The Holocaust reduced that number to approximately twelve million, which means that roughly one third of the Jewish people were murdered during the Nazi attempts at eliminating the Jewish race (6 million total- 1.5 million children). Today, there are an estimated thirteen to fifteen million Jews scattered throughout the world in one hundred thirty four countries, with the U.S. being the largest population, and Israel being a close second.
Very sadly, if interpreted literally, Zechariah 13 prophesies that during this next Holocaust, two thirds of the Jewish people will be lost.
Zechariah 13
8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried; they shall call on My name, and I will answer them; I will say: 'It is My people', and they shall say: 'The LORD is my God.'