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

Zechariah 14

• About the title: Egypt and other nations are shunned by God, making them “Nay-Shuns”.

• Prophetically, Jesus rules the world in Jerusalem after Armageddon. The nations that came against Israel are ruled with sternness.
  
  • Psalm 9:7 But the Lord shall endure forever; He has prepared His throne for judgment.
    
  • Psalm 122:5 For thrones are set there for judgment, The thrones of the house of David.
    
  • Psalm 132:13-14 or the Lord has chosen Zion;
    He has desired it for His dwelling place:
    “This is My resting place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
    
  • Psalm 2:6 “Yet I have set (installed) My King on My holy hill of Zion.”
    “I will declare the decree:
    The Lord has said to Me,
    ‘You are My Son,
    Today I have begotten You.
    ⁸ Ask of Me, and I will give You
    The nations for Your inheritance,
    And the ends of the earth for Your possession.
    ⁹ You shall break (rule) them with a rod of iron;
    You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel.’ ”

The Millennium: When Jesus Rules on Earth for One Thousand Years

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 (sin) of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

• Note: Jesus will rule with a scepter of iron (strength, absolute authority).
  
  • Psalm 2:9 You shall break them with a rod (scepter) of iron; You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel.’ ”
  • Revelation 2:27 ‘He shall rule them with a rod of iron; They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’— as I also have received from My Father;
  • Revelation 12:5 She (Israel) bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child (Jesus) was caught up to God and His throne.
  • Revelation 19:15 Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

• Egypt is singled out for its sin of not attending the Feast of Tabernacles. Is this literal, symbolic, an example, or purely prophetic?
  
  • Egypt is only one of the nations with antisemitic issues, although, since it is now the Millennium, it has survived the Battle of Armageddon.
  • Egypt is symbolic for its “worldliness”. It is also the nation in which the Jews were held captive as slaves until taken out of Egypt being led by Moses.
  • It is used as an example for others in verse 18.
  • Prophetically, like many other scriptures, it most likely will be literal.

{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]

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