One in Messiah Congregation
My thoughts as of 1/25/2025:
Zech. chapter 14 sounds like many different books in scripture
This chapter uses a lot of imagery and picture language.
Sounds like the Book of Kings
Zech.14
[1]
Behold, the day of Yehovah comes, and your spoil shall be divided in the midst
of you.
[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.
captivity?
Ezra and Nehemiah time
[3]
Then shall Yehovah go forth (like
always), and fight against those
nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
[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.
[5]
And you shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the
mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, you
shall flee, like as you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and Yehovah my God shall come, and all the saints with you. (people that were on the earth at that time)
God came to fight for
them all the time.
This sounds heavenly
below, living waters:
[6]
And it shall come to pass in that day,
that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
[7] But it shall be one day which shall be known to Yehovah, not day,
nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
[8] And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from (New) Jerusalem; half of them toward
the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter
shall it be.
[9]
And Yehovah shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall
there be one Yehovah, and his name one.
[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.
[11] And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but (New?) Jerusalem shall be safely
inhabited.
Sounds Hellish below
[12]
And this shall be the plague wherewith
Yehovah will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem;
Their flesh shall consume
away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in
their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
[13]
And it shall come to pass in that day,
that a great tumult from Yehovah shall be among them; and they shall lay hold
everyone on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the
hand of his neighbor.
Sounds like the Book of Kings again:
Words like Judah, Jerusalem, Egypt, no more the Canaanite in the
house of Yehovah of hosts…
[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 apparel,
in great abundance.
[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.
[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, Yehovah of hosts, and
to keep the feast of tabernacles.
[17] And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of
the earth unto Jerusalem to worship
the King, Yehovah of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
[18] And if the family of Egypt
go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague,
wherewith Yehovah will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of
tabernacles.
[19] This shall be the punishment
of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the
feast of tabernacles.
[20] In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS
UNTO Yehovah; and the pots in Yehovah’s house shall be like the bowl's before the altar.
[21] Yea, every pot in Jerusalem
and in Judah shall be holiness unto Yehovah 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 Yehovah of hosts.