Words in italic type have been added for clarity. They are not found in the original Hebrew or Aramaic.

About the title:

• Zechariah 14 is resplendent with details and explanations of last-day events.
  Each concept is analyzed separately.

Concept:

• History repeats itself when evil spirits never die; they just wait for another opportunity. Therefore, the same Prophecy can be fulfilled with more than just one event. The prophecy can be fulfilled many times in many ways. One such example is Daniel’s Abomination of Desolation (Daniel 9:27), when Antiochus IV stood in the Holy of Holies as Zeus/god, December 25, 167 BC. However, it will be repeated during the Seven-Year Tribulation by the coming Antichrist. (Matthew 24:15 The Great Tribulation)
• Another repeating, prophetic pattern is the Destruction of the Jewish Holy Temple. It has happened twice and is prophesied to be fulfilled once again during the future Seven-Year tribulation.
  
  
  

Zechariah 14

• The Seven-Year Tribulation is seven years of affliction for both the Jews and the Gentiles, all who have rejected Jesus. It is Daniel’s seventieth “Week”.
  
• The Day of the Lord is the return of Jesus at the battle of Armageddon. It is the day Jesus returns with the angels and resurrected saints to defeat the armies surrounding Jerusalem; to crush the Antichrist and the false prophet, to save the Jews from total annihilation, and to set up His kingdom on earth.
  
  (This differs from the “Day of Christ” preceding the Tribulation)
  The Day of Christ refers to the rapture and the resurrection of the saints as part of the “High Holy Days”.
  
• (The Day of the Lord looks like the pattern of the Jewish Feast Yom Kippur, also called the Day of Atonement. The Feast of Trumpets, followed by seven days of affliction, and the Day of Atonement are known as “The Days of Awe”.)

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The Day of the Lord

cf.s Eze 38; 39; Mar 13; Rev 20—22 

Zechariah 14:¹ Behold, the day of the Lord (yᵊhōvâ) is coming,
And your spoil (plunder or booty) will be divided in your midst (but not for you).

Zechariah 14:² For I will gather all the (Gentile) nations to battle against Jerusalem;
The city shall be taken,
The houses rifled (Or plundered),
And the women ravished.
Half of the city shall go into captivity,
But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

• A remnant is left in Jerusalem.
• The breaking of the Peace Treaty by the Antichrist

Zechariah 14:³ Then the Lord (yᵊhōvâ) will go forth
And fight against those nations,
As He fights in the day of battle (Armageddon).

Zechariah 14:⁴ And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives (Jesus’ Return), Which faces Jerusalem on the east.

And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two,
From east to west,
Making a very large valley;
Half of the mountain shall move toward the north
And half of it toward the south.

Zechariah 14:⁵ Then you (the Antichrist indwelt by Satan) shall flee through My mountain valley,
For the mountain valley shall reach to Azal.
Yes, you shall flee
As you fled from the earthquake
In the days of Uzziah king of Judah.

Thus the Lord my God (yᵊhōvâ ‘ĕlōhîm) will come,
And all the saints with You (Him).

Zechariah 14:⁶ It shall come to pass in that day that there will be no light; the lights (Lit. glorious ones) will diminish.

Zechariah 14:⁷ It shall be one day
Which is known to the Lord (yᵊhōvâ)—
Neither day nor night.
But at evening time it shall happen
That it will be light.

Zechariah 14:⁸ And in that day it shall be
That living waters (fresh waters) shall flow from Jerusalem,
Half of them toward the eastern sea (The Mediterranean Sea)
And half of them toward the western sea (The Dead Sea);
In both summer and winter it shall occur.

Zechariah 14:⁹ And the Lord (yᵊhōvâ) (Jesus) shall be King over all the earth.
In that day it shall be—
“The Lord (yᵊhōvâ) is one,”
And His name one.

Zechariah 14:¹⁰ All the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem (Lit. She) shall be raised up and inhabited in her place from Benjamin’s Gate to the place of the First Gate and the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses.

Zechariah 14:¹¹ The people shall dwell in it;
And no longer shall there be utter destruction,
But Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.

Zechariah 14:¹² And this shall be the plague with which the Lord (yᵊhōvâ) will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem:

Their flesh shall dissolve (Lit. decay) while they stand on their feet,
Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets,
And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.

• All of which is indicative of a nuclear warhead.

Zechariah 14:¹³ It shall come to pass in that day
That a great panic from the Lord (yᵊhōvâ) will be among them.
Everyone will seize the hand of his neighbor,
And raise his hand against his neighbor’s hand;

• Israel’s enemies fight each other.

Zechariah 14:¹⁴ Judah also will fight at Jerusalem.
And the wealth of all the surrounding nations
Shall be gathered together:
Gold, silver, and apparel in great abundance.

Zechariah 14:¹⁵ Such also shall be the plague
On the horse and the mule,
On the camel and the donkey,
And on all the cattle that will be in those camps.
So shall this plague be.

The Nations Worship the King

• Jesus sets up His 1,000 year millennial reign in Jerusalem.

Zechariah 14:¹⁶ And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts (yᵊhōvâ ṣāḇā’), and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles (The Feast of Booths).

• The Feast of Booths is the millennial prophecy of God dwelling among men.

Zechariah 14:¹⁷ And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts (yᵊhōvâ ṣāḇā’), on them there will be no rain (gešem h1653 root – H1652 gāšam“shower violently”).

• The rain is the Messiah, and His blessings. Also, specifically, no rain.

Zechariah 14:¹⁸ If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the Lord (yᵊhōvâ) strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

Zechariah 14:¹⁹ This shall be the punishment (Lit. sin) of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

Zechariah 14:²⁰ In that day “HOLINESS TO THE LORD (yᵊhōvâ)” shall be engraved on the bells of the horses. The pots in the Lord’s (yᵊhōvâ) house (Lord’s temple) shall be like the bowls before the altar.

Zechariah 14:²¹ Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holiness to the Lord of hosts (yᵊhōvâ ṣāḇā’). (Or: on every pot . . . shall be engraved “HOLINESS TO THE LORD OF HOSTS”)

• Jeremiah 2:³ Israel was holiness to the Lord,

Everyone who sacrifices shall come and take them and cook in them. In that day there shall no longer be a Canaanite (Israel’s enemy) in the house of the Lord of hosts (yᵊhōvâ ṣāḇā’).

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{1 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “For the Last Time …” [Prologue]
{2 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “The Day of the Lord” [v.1]
{3 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “Mid-Trib” [v.2]
{4 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “The One Who …” [v.3]
{5 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “Showing Patterns” [v.4a]
{6 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “The Big Shake Up” [v.4b-5a]
{7 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “Here He Is!” [v.5b]
{8 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “Enlightened” [v.6]
{9 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “Twilight” [v.7]
{10 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “Living Water” [v.8]
{11 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “The One Won” [v.9]
{12 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “The Flatlands” [v.10]
{13 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “An Open Safe” [v.11]
{14 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “No Feel, No See, No Speak” [v.12]
{15 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “Seizures” [v.13]
{16 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “Jewelry” [v.14]
{17 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “The Raider Riders” [v.15]
{18 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “The Right is Right and the Left is Left” [v.16]
{19 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “A Famine of Rain” [v.17]
{20 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “Nay-Shuns” [v.18-19]
{21 of 21} Zechariah 14 – “Totally and Wholly, Holy” [v.20-21]