The Day of the Lord
The city shall be taken,
The houses1 rifled,
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.
Which faces Jerusalem on the east.
And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two,
From east to west,
bMaking a very large valley;
Half of the mountain shall move toward the north
And half of it toward the south.
For the mountain valley shall reach to Azal.
Yes, you shall flee
As you fled from the aearthquake
In the days of Uzziah king of Judah.
bThus the Lord my God will come,
And call the saints with You.
No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Zechariah 14:1.
Zechariah 14:1-3
Please turn to Zechariah 14. This is a prophecy of the Day of the Lord, and God says that He will gather nations - Gentiles - against Jerusalem because of her apostasy:
So, first God gathers the nations against Jerusalem, but later He fights against them. He uses terrible nations for His own ends, and He allows those enemies to do what is in their nature to do, but He does not allow them to escape judgment, either. And He is justified in all that He does. The question for us is whether we fear Him enough to accept His judgments, and whether we grieve as much over what causes God to hide His face as over the terrible effects when He does.
Zechariah 14:1-3
Thus, the time when mankind’s survival hangs in the balance seems to parallel the days of vengeance, when God takes His vengeance against all flesh—first Israelite, and then Gentile. This is seen most clearly in Zechariah 14:1-3, which says that first God gathers all the nations to battle against Jerusalem, and the city is taken. But then God fights against those same nations. The iniquity and lawlessness will be so great, and His justified wrath so intense, that unless He had shortened those days, no flesh—Israelite or Gentile—would survive His vengeance.
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