Zechariah

Armageddon

• 1.↓ Behold the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
  
  • Hebrew
    • הִנֵּה יוֹם־בָּא לַיהוָה וְחֻלַּק שְׁלָלֵךְ בְּקִרְבֵּךְ׃
  • Notes
    • ° Who's spoil shall be divided at this point? It is certainly not for God's enemies, but what did His enemies have that is now His?
      ° The Lord's rewards are throughout the Bible (we will look at one at the end) _MF-NCC
      
      Hebrews 11:6 — But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
      
      See →Revelation 22:12-14
      
      
• 2.↓ For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
  
  • Hebrew
    • וְאָסַפְתִּי אֶת־כָּל־הַגּוֹיִם אֶל־יְרוּשָׁלִַם לַמִּלְחָמָה וְנִלְכְּדָה הָעִיר וְנָשַׁסּוּ הַבָּתִּים וְהַנָּשִׁים תשגלנה וְיָצָא חֲצִי הָעִיר בַּגּוֹלָה וְיֶתֶר הָעָם לֹא יִכָּרֵת מִן־הָעִיר׃
  • Notes
    • ° God gives us another ratio for the tribulation period; In Zechariah 13:8 we saw that two out of three Jews are killed during the tribulation. _MF-NCC
      
      ° 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.
      
      ° Here we see that 50% of Jerusalem will go into captivity (They did not listen to Jesus in Matthew 24!) _MF-NCC
      
      
• 3.↓ Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
  
  • Hebrew
    • וְיָצָא יְהוָה וְנִלְחַם בַּגּוֹיִם הָהֵם כְּיוֹם הִלָּחֲמו בְּיוֹם קְרָב׃
  • Notes
    • ° Numbers 21:14 — Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red Sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
      ° Can you imagine the LORD going out to fight against you?
      ° Not to come forth to speak with you, or correct you, or to plead with you...
      ° But Jesus Christ coming forth as a conquering King to wage the war you requested _MF-NCC
      
      See →Psalm 2:1-3
      
      ° Is there anything more arrogant than to declare war on Jesus?
      ° The armies of the earth are gathered together to make war with the Son of God!
      ° All nations will be drawn in to wage war against Christ, His people Israel, and His city Jerusalem _MF-NCC
      
      See →Revelation 16:13-16
      
      ° The return of Jesus in POWER!
      
      See →Revelation 19:11-15
      
      

Splitting the Mount of Olives

• 4.↓ And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
  
  • Hebrew
    • וְעָמְדוּ רַגְלָיו בַּיּוֹם־הַהוּא עַל־הַר הַזֵּתִים אֲשֶׁר עַל־פְּנֵי יְרוּשָׁלִַם מִקֶּדֶם וְנִבְקַע הַר הַזֵּיתִים מֵחֶצְיוֹ מִזְרָחָה וָיָמָּה גֵּיא גְּדוֹלָה מְאֹד וּמָשׁ חֲצִי הָהָר צָפוֹנָה וְחֶצְיוֹ־נֶגְבָּה׃
  • Notes
    • ° The Mount of Olives will split down the middle to the east and west
      ° Then half the mountain will move northward and half of the mountain will move southward
      ° The Mount of Olives only shows up twice in the entire Old Testament, once here and the other in II Samuel 15:30 (David climbs the mountain weeping becasue of Absalom's conspiracy) _MF-NCC
      
      II Samuel 15:30 — And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
      
      ° The Mount of Olives is the highest peak in the Judea area
      ° It overlooks Jerusalem about 200 ft. higher than Mt. Zion & roughly 300 ft. above Mount Moria (all in the 2,500 ft. elevation range...)
      ° The Mount of Olives was the place of the Lord's departure (also where he rode on the donkey into Jerusalem from Matthew 21 & Luke 19)
      
      See →Acts 1:9-12
      
      ° The ascension can also be found in Luke 24:50-51
      
      Luke 24:50 — And he led them out as fas as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
      Luke 24:51 — And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
      
      ° The mount of Olives being east of Jerusalem was also the direction by which the Shekinah Glory departed in Ezekiel, but will return with Jesus
      
      Ezekiel 11:22 — Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
      Ezekiel 11:23 — And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
      
      See →Ezekiel 43:2-4
      
      ° The Mount of Olives will not be the only mountain shaking at the return of Christ
      
      Micah 1:4 — And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
      Nahum 1:5 — The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein
      Habakkuk 3:6 — He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
      Psalm 18:7 — Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
      
      
• 5.↓ And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
  
  • Hebrew
    • וְנַסְתֶּם גֵּיא־הָרַי כִּי־יַגִּיעַ גֵּי־הָרִים אֶל־אָצַל וְנַסְתֶּם כַּאֲשֶׁר נַסְתֶּם מִפְּנֵי הָרַעַשׁ בִּימֵי עֻזִּיָּה מֶלֶךְ־יְהוּדָה וּבָא יְהוָה אֱלֹהַי כָּל־קְדֹשִׁים עִמָּךְ׃
  • Notes
    • ° Azal could possibly be a reference to Beth-Ezel (Micha 1:11) _MF-NCC
      
      Micah 1:11 —Pass ye away. thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel; he shall receive of you his standing.
      
      ° Their fight is compared with that during the reign of Uzziah
      ° There are only two references to the earthquake in Uzziah's day, Zechariah 14:5 & Amos 1:1 _MF-NCC
      
      Amos 1:1 — The words of Amos, who was among the herdment of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
      
      ° This must have been quite an event for Zechariah to referernce it some 200-250 years later
      ° Zechariah 14:5 — ... and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
      
      • ◙ Jesus will return with His angels and His saints...
        ◙ He will be accompanied by His Angels: _MF-NCC
        
        Matthew 24:30 — And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then sall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
        Matthew 24:31 — And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one nd of heaven to the other.
        
        ◙ He will be accompanied by His saints: _MF-NCC
        
        I Thessalonians 3:13 — To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
        I Thessalonians 4:14 — For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
        
        ◙ The "bride" will be united to Christ in glory (Revelation 19:7-9) before he returns to the earth in power (Revelation 19:11-16) and will form part of the "armies of heaven" following Him back to earth (Revelation 19:14)
        ◙ These armies "clothed in fine linen white and clean" conect them with the bride, the Lamb's wife, whose garments "of fine, clean and white" are said to be the "righteousness of the saints" (Revelation 19:8) _MF-NCC
        
        See →Revelation 19:7-16
        
        
• 6.↓ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
  
  • Hebrew
    • וְהָיָה בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא לֹא־יִהְיֶה אוֹר יְקָרוֹת יקפאון
  • Notes
    • ° This will be a very different environment as cosmic changes will take place
      ° Remember that the sun, moon, and stars were not created until after satan's rebellion in between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2 _MF-NCC
      
      Genesis 1:1 — In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
      Genesis 1:2 — And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
      
      Isaiah 13:9 — Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
      Isaiah 13:10 — For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
      
      Isaiah 24:23 — Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
      
      See →Joel 3:14-16
      
      Matthew 24:29 — Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
      Mark 13:24 — But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkend, and the moon shall not give her light,
      Mark 13:25 — And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
      
      °Some of the angels are cast to the earth during the tribulation, but referred to as "stars"... _MF-NCC
      
      Revelation 6:13 — And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
      
      
• 7.↓ But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
  
  • Hebrew
    • וְהָיָה יוֹם־אֶחָד הוּא יִוָּדַע לַיהוָה לֹא־יוֹם וְלֹא־לָיְלָה וְהָיָה לְעֵת־עֶרֶב יִהְיֶה־אוֹר׃
  • Notes
    • ° This will be such a unique time in human history where there is no more day nor night, but our earth being illuminated constantly by The Light of the world, Jesus Himself
      ° Adam and Eve did not even experience the earth in that way
      ° Remember that in Genesis 1:14-18 God divided the day and night, a greater light to rule the day and a lesser light to rule the night, and to divide the light from the darkness (verse 18) _MF-NCC
      
      See →Genesis 1:14-18
      
      Isaiah 30:26 — Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth th stroke of their wound.
      
      ° Creation groans tro be redeemed as well... _MF-NCC
      
      See →Romans 8:19-23
      
      
• 8.↓ And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
  
  • Hebrew
    • וְהָיָה בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא יֵצְאוּ מַיִם־חַיִּים מִירוּשָׁלִַם חֶצְיָם אֶל־הַיָּם הַקַּדְמוֹנִי וְחֶצְיָם אֶל־הַיָּם הָאַחֲרוֹן בַּקַּיִץ וּבָחֹרֶף יִהְיֶה׃
  • Notes
    • ° "Waters" in the Bible can often represent purification, the Holy Spirit, refreshment, cleansing, etc. (interesting that God says this will happen in both summer and winter, denoting seasons but no changes in light)
      ° We know in the millennium that living waters will flow out of the temple _MF-NCC
      
      Ezekiel 47:1 — Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters cam down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.
      Ezekiel 47:2 — Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
      
      ° Living waters... _MF-NCC
      
      Joel 3:18 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
      
      Revelation 22:1 — And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
      Revelation 22:2 — In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
      
      John 4:10 — Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
      John 4:11 — The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
      
      John 7::38 — He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
      
      ° Forsaking The Lord is compared to broken cisterns unable to hold water: _MF-NCC
      
      Jeremiah 2:13 — For my people have committed two evils they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
      
      ° Living water is fresh, running water, clearly bringing forth life, etc. _MF-NCC
      
      See →Ezekiel 36:1-15 (restoration of the land)
      See →Ezekiel 36:16-Ezekiel 37:28 (restoration of the people)
      
      ° "...living waters shall go out from Jerusalem" (Jerusalem will be the capital of the milleniah earth as well as the center of all spiritual blessings) ° God's promise of restoration! _MF-NCC
      
      See →Isaiah 35
      
      

Jesus as Rightful King

• 9.↓ And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
  
  • Hebrew
    • וְהָיָה יְהוָה לְמֶלֶךְ עַל־כָּל־הָאָרֶץ בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא יִהְיֶה יְהוָה אֶחָד וּשְׁמוֹ אֶחָד׃
  • Notes
    • ° Right now, in this day and age, the whole earth is in wickedness; just think about how satan tempted Jesus in Matthew 4 _MF-NCC
      
      I John 5:19 — And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
      
      ° There will come a day when the whole earth will be ruled in righteousness
      ° In that day there shall be ONE LORD, whose name is ONE _MF-NCC
      
      Deuteronomy 6:4 — Hear, O Israel The LORD our GOD is one LORD:
      
      ° There will be a universal pure language on earth at that time... _MF-NCC
      
      Zephaniah — For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
      
      ° Jesus alone will be worshipped across the entire planet _MF-NCC
      
      Isaiah 54:5 — For thy Maker is thine husband; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
      
      Revelation 12:5 — And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
      
      ° Remember in Nebuchadnezzar's dream the statue was destroyed by a giant stone cut without hands
      ° That stone is non-other than Jesus Christ!
      ° In Nebuchadnezzar's dream God showed him five gentile kingdoms _MF-NCC
      
      Daniel 2:44 — And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
      
      
      _{10 Regionas}
      
      
• 10.↓ All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.
  
  • Greek
    • יִסּוֹב כָּל־הָאָרֶץ כָּעֲרָבָה מִגֶּבַע לְרִמּוֹן נֶגֶב יְרוּשָׁלִָם וְרָאֲמָה וְיָשְׁבָה תַחְתֶּיהָ לְמִשַּׁעַר בִּנְיָמִן עַד־מְקוֹם שַׁעַר הָרִאשׁוֹן עַד־שַׁעַר הַפִּנִּים וּמִגְדַּל חֲנַנְאֵל עַד יִקְבֵי הַמֶּלֶךְ׃
  • Notes
    • ° The Hebrew wor for "as a plan" is Arabah _MF-NCC
      
      Isaiah 35:1 — The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
      
      ° The deep "Great Rift" from the Dog River at the coast north of Beirut in Lebanon, above the Sea of Galilee, through the Jordan Valley, through the Dead Sea, down into the gulf of Aqaba, and on into the North Africa. Considered the deepest depression on the surface of the earth. _MF-NCC
      
      Deuteronomy 1:7 — Turn you and take your journey and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh therunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
      
      Deuteronomy 3:17 — The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plains, even the salt sea, under Ashdoth-pisgah eastward.
      
      Joshua 11:2 — And to the kings that were on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west,
      
      ° Jesus is once again changing the topography! Will this entire rift be "lifted up"?
      ° Will Jerusalem be lifted up even higher in the millennium? _MF-NCC
      
      Micah 4:1 — But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountains of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and the people shall flow unto it.
      
      See →Psalm 48:1-3 _MF-NCC
      
      ° Benjamin's Gate: In the north wall of city, also called the "Gate of Ephraim" (II Kings 14:13), as the road from it ran through Benjamin and on to Ephraim
      
      II Kings 48:13 — And Jehoash king of Israel too Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
      
      ° First Gate: This gate was apparently in the NE corner
      ° Corner Gate: From II Kings 14:13 and Jeremiah 31:38 it was in the NW corner _MF-NCC
      
      Jeremiah 31:38 — Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.
      
      ° Tower of Hananeel (Jeremiah 31:38): Near NE corner of the wall (archaeologist actually located this tower some years ago)
      ° Winepress of the King: SE of the city near the king's gardens and the pool of Siloam. (Detailed topographical info testify to taking God literally!) _MF-NCC
      
      
• 11.↓ And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
  
  • Hebrew
    • וְיָשְׁבוּ בָהּ וְחֵרֶם לֹא יִהְיֶה־עוֹד וְיָשְׁבָה יְרוּשָׁלִַם לָבֶטַח׃
  • Notes
    • ° There will be no more utter destruction, war, chaos, perilous times, etc.
      ° "Utter destruction" only shows up in one other verse in the bible: _MF-NCC
      
      I Kings 20:42 — And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.
      
      ° Jerusalem, and the entire world will be safely inhabited in the millennium _MF-NCC
      
      Isaiah 2:2 — And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
      Isaiah 2:3 — And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
      
      ° The millennium... these verses are used by the United Nations minus the King _MF-NCC
      
      Isaiah 2:4 — And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninhooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nations, neither shall they learn war any more.
      
      Micah 4:3 — And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into prunninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
      
      ° By two or more witnesses a thing is established!
      ° The world wants the millennium without the King
      _{UN Gifts}
      
      
• 12.↓ And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while the stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
  
  • Hebrew
    • וְזֹאת תִּהְיֶה הַמַּגֵּפָה אֲשֶׁר יִגֹּף יְהוָה אֶת־כָּל־הָעַמִּים אֲשֶׁר צָבְאוּ עַל־יְרוּשָׁלִָם הָמֵק בְּשָׂרוֹ וְהוּא עֹמֵד עַל־רַגְלָיו וְעֵינָיו תִּמַּקְנָה בְחֹרֵיהֶן וּלְשׁוֹנוֹ תִּמַּק בְּפִיהֶם׃
  • Notes
    • ° Wow... The Lord just lets them go...
      
      Colossians 1:16 — For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and thar are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
      Colossians 1:17 — And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
      
      ° He holds the very molecular structure of creation together by His Word
      ° Animals are destroyed as well (we will see that in verse 15)
      ° A very similar fate was promised by God back in Leviticus 26:14-16 _MF-NCC
      
      See →Leviticus 26:14-16
      
      ° I suppose the easier path is to just obey The Lord... _MF-NCC
      
      
• 13.↓ And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them, and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor.
  
  • Hebrew
    • וְהָיָה בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא תִּהְיֶה מְהוּמַת־יְהוָה רַבָּה בָּהֶם וְהֶחֱזִיקוּ אִישׁ יַד רֵעֵהוּ וְעָלְתָה יָדוֹ עַל־יַד רֵעֵהוּ׃
  • Notes
    • ° God is going to set His enemies against one another, this could be because of the terror and confusion that sets in from watching people melt away
      ° Something similar happened in Judges 7 and I Samuel 14 _MF-NCC
      
      Judges 7:22 — And the three hundre blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even througout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshitta in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath.
      
      I Samuel 14:15 — And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.
      
      I Samuel 14:16 — And the watchmen of Saul in Gabeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one another.
      
      
• 14.↓ And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparael, in great abundance.
  
  • Hebrew
    • וְגַם־יְהוּדָה תִּלָּחֵם בִּירוּשָׁלִָם וְאֻסַּף חֵיל כָּל־הַגּוֹיִם סָבִיב זָהָב וָכֶסֶף וּבְגָדִים לָרֹב מְאֹד׃
  • Notes
    • ° There will be great abundance that God will take and divide amongst His people _MF-NCC
      
      Zechariah 14:1 — Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
      
      I Chronicles 29:11 — Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.
      I Chronicles 29:12 — Both riches and honour come of thee and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
      
      
• 15.↓ And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.
  
  • Hebrew
    • וְכֵן תִּהְיֶה מַגֵּפַת הַסּוּס הַפֶּרֶד הַגָּמָל וְהַחֲמוֹר וְכָל־הַבְּהֵמָה אֲשֶׁר יִהְיֶה בַּמַּחֲנוֹת הָהֵמָּה כַּמַּגֵּפָה הַזֹּאת׃
  • Notes
    • ° Why would God need to destroy the animals as well?
      ° Could this be a hint at hybrid creatures once again?
      ° As in the days of Noah...? _MF-NCC
      
      Matthew 24:37 — But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
      
      ° Is this a reference to the timing of the rapture, His second coming, or both? _MF-NCC
      
      Matthew 24:40 — Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
      Matthew 24:41 — Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

The Millenial Sacrifices

• 16.↓ And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
  
  • Hebrew
    • וְהָיָה כָּל־הַנּוֹתָר מִכָּל־הַגּוֹיִם הַבָּאִים עַל־יְרוּשָׁלִָם וְעָלוּ מִדֵּי שָׁנָה בְשָׁנָה לְהִשְׁתַּחֲוֺת לְמֶלֶךְ יְהוָה צְבָאוֹת וְלָחֹג אֶת־חַג הַסֻּכּוֹת׃
  • Notes
    • ° At the end of the tribulation there will be survivors; Those that come against Jerusalem at Armageddon are wiped out, but there will be people that survive across the planet
      ° Those people are brought into the millenial reign of Christ, they will have jobs and responsibilities across the world, and will go forth to repopulate the earth
      ° They will have the same commission as both Adam and Noah _MF-NCC
      
      Genesis 1:28 — And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
      
      Genesis 9:1 — And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
      
      ° The feast of tabernacles (or feast of booths) is detailed in Leviticus 23:33-44 & Deuteronomy 16:13-17 _MF-NCC
      
      See →Leviticus 23:33-44
      
      See →Deuteronomy 16:13-17
      
      ° The feast of tabernacles or booths had not been celebrated by Israel since the days of Joshua
      ° When Israel is restored to their land when Cyrus conquers Babylon, they find an old copy of the law
      ° They would spend days just reading the Bible because they hungered for God
      ° The feast of tabernacles celebrated once again: _MF-NCC
      
      See →Nehemiah 8:14-18
      
      ° There is great joy and contentment in following the Lord's commands
      ° When Jesus establishes the Millenial Kingdom, this feast will literally be fulfilled _MF-NCC
      
      John 1:14 — And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
      
      ° God Himself will dwell amongst men permenantly in the flesh
      ° In the millennium this feast will be kept every year to worship the King!
      ° This was also one of the three feast in the Old Testament that required mandatory attendance in Jerusalem
      ° The three pilgrimage festivals were two in spring: Passover, the 49 days later Shavuot (literally 'weeks', or Pentacost, from the Greek); and in autumn Sukkot ('tabernacles' or 'booths')
      ° All Israelites who were able were expected to make a pilgrimage to the temple in Jerusalem as commanded by God for all three of those feasts
      ° The pilgrimage will continue in the millennium, only for the whole world! _MF-NCC
      
      
• 17.↓ And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
  
  • Hebrew
    • וְהָיָה אֲשֶׁר לֹא־יַעֲלֶה מֵאֵת מִשְׁפְּחוֹת הָאָרֶץ אֶל־יְרוּשָׁלִַם לְהִשְׁתַּחֲוֺת לְמֶלֶךְ יְהוָה צְבָאוֹת וְלֹא עֲלֵיהֶם יִהְיֶה הַגָּשֶׁם׃
  • Notes
    • ° Rain is a blessing from God, and it will rain during the millennium
      ° Notice that God turns His attention to the families of the earth, not just the nations...will the placement of rain be specific to lots of neighborhoods (just an interesting thought)?
      ° Rain being withheld is a punishment for disobedience
      ° It makes you wonder if people will send delegations to Jerusalemn at the feast of tabernacles (just to check the box so to speak), only to not be worshipping the King in their hearts _MF-NCC
      
      
• 18.↓ And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heather that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
  
  • Hebrew
    • וְאִם־מִשְׁפַּחַת מִצְרַיִם לֹא־תַעֲלֶה וְלֹא בָאָה וְלֹא עֲלֵיהֶם תִּהְיֶה הַמַּגֵּפָה אֲשֶׁר יִגֹּף יְהוָה אֶת־הַגּוֹיִם אֲשֶׁר לֹא יַעֲלוּ לָחֹג אֶת־חַג הַסֻּכּוֹת׃
  • Notes
    • ° When God withholds rain from the land for not obeying the feast of tabernacles, then if you continue to be disobedient, He will send the plague
      ° God does not describe specifically what the plague is in this case, but continued disobedience leads to steeper punishments
      _MF-NCC
      
      
• 19.↓ This shall be the punishment of Egypt, nd the punishement of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
  
  • Hebrew
    • זֹאת תִּהְיֶה חַטַּאת מִצְרָיִם וְחַטַּאת כָּל־הַגּוֹיִם אֲשֶׁר לֹא יַעֲלוּ לָחֹג אֶת־חַג הַסֻּכּוֹת׃
  • Notes
    • ° God may be prophesying that Egypt will disobey the pilgrimage of this feast
      ° "This shall be the punishment of..." ... remember that htis is the rod of iron rule of our Messiah! _MF-NCC
      
      See →Psalm 2
      
      
• 20.↓ In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
  
  • Hebrew
    • בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא יִהְיֶה עַל־מְצִלּוֹת הַסּוּס קֹדֶשׁ לַיהוָה וְהָיָה הַסִּירוֹת בְּבֵית יְהוָה כַּמִּזְרָקִים לִפְנֵי הַמִּזְבֵּחַ׃
  • Notes
    • ° There will be no vessels of dishonor any longer _MF-NCC
      
      II Timothy 2:20 — But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
      
      ° Never again will there be secular vs. sanctified
      ° All will be sanctified before the Lord... finally...
      ° All of the scoffing, all of eh ridicue, all of the accusations, all of the persecution, all of the division, all of it will finally be put away! _MF-NCC
      
      
• 21.↓ Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.
  
  • Hebrew
    • וְהָיָה כָּל־סִיר בִּירוּשָׁלִַם וּבִיהוּדָה קֹדֶשׁ לַיהוָה צְבָאוֹת וּבָאוּ כָּל־הַזֹּבְחִים וְלָקְחוּ מֵהֶם וּבִשְּׁלוּ בָהֶם וְלֹא־יִהְיֶה כְנַעֲנִי עוֹד בְּבֵית־יְהוָה צְבָאוֹת בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא׃
  • Notes
    • ° The "Canaanite" probably stands for the Phoenicians of N. Caanan
      ° They were noted mariners and merchants of the ancient world, and known for their ungoldly and unholy ways _MF-NCC
      
      Hosea 12:7 — He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
      
      ° This is God's way of indicating that all will be holy
      ° HOLINESS WILL RULE AND REIGHN! HALLELUJAH!
      
      ° Earlier in Zechariah 2:13 God declared _MF-NCC
      
      Zechariah 2:13 — Be silent, O all flewh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.
      
      ° When The King raises up out of His holy habitation, the earth will shake, tremble, and sit silent
      ° Hosea 5:15 says when He will raise up out of His holy habitation _MF-NCC
      
      Hosea 5:15 — I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
      
      See →Acts 3:17-21
      
      ° The times of restitution of all things is a jubilee term
      ° The Millennial Kingdom will be established
      ° It was promised to Mary before Jesus' first arrival _MF-NCC
      
      Luke 1:32 — He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
      
      ° We pray for this in the prayer Jesus modeled for us... _MF-NCC
      
      Matthew 6:10 — Thy kngdome come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
      
      See The Promised Millennium

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