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| =What the Bible teaches= | | =What the Bible teaches= |
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| The whole passage in Zechariah 14 should be read in context:
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| :''For '''I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken''' and the houses plundered and the women raped. '''Half of the city shall go out into exile''', but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. '''On that day''' his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him. | | :4 - '''''On that day''' his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. |
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| :'''''On that day''' there shall be '''no light, cold, or frost. And there shall be a unique day, which is known to the LORD, neither day nor night, but at evening time there shall be light.''' | | :5 - ''And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him. |
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| :'''''On that day''' living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall continue in summer as in winter. | | :6 - '''''On that day''' there shall be '''no light, cold, or frost'''. |
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| :''And the LORD will be king over all the earth. '''On that day''' the LORD will be one and his name one. | | :7 - ''And there shall be '''a unique day''', which is known to the LORD, '''neither day nor night''', but at evening time there shall be light.''' |
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| :''The whole land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem shall remain aloft on its site from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses. 11 And it shall be inhabited, for there shall never again be a decree of utter destruction. Jerusalem shall dwell in security. | | :8 - '''''On that day''' living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall continue in summer as in winter. |
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| :''And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths. | | :9 - ''And the LORD will be king over all the earth. '''On that day''' the LORD will be one and his name one. <ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Zec 14:4–9.</ref> |
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| :''And '''on that day''' a great panic from the LORD shall fall on them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other. Even Judah will fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance. And a plague like this plague shall fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, the donkeys, and whatever beasts may be in those camps.
| | There will be one continuous day (Isa 60:19–20). John picks up this theme in Rev 21:22–25: |
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| :''Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths. And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, there will be no rain on them. And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain; there shall be the plague with which the LORD afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths. This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.
| | :''And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. And the city has '''no need of sun or moon to shine upon it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb'''. By its light shall the nations walk; and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory into it, and its gates shall never be shut by day—and there shall be no night there (RSV). |
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| :''And '''on that day''' there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “Holy to the LORD.” And the pots in the house of the LORD shall be as the bowls before the altar. And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holy to the LORD of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and take of them and boil the meat of the sacrifice in them. And there shall no longer be a trader in the house of the LORD of hosts '''on that day'''.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Zec 14:2–21.</ref>
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| There will be one continuous day (Isa 60:19–20). John picks up this theme in Rev 21:22–25
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| :''And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine upon it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb. By its light shall the nations walk; and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory into it, and its gates shall never be shut by day—and there shall be no night there (RSV). | |
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| With continuous day there will be no clouds and no rain. The land will be watered by a stream of living water flowing out of Jerusalem (cf. Ezek 47:1–12; Joel 3:18; Rev 22:1–2). Here in Zech 14 the living water will flow to the Dead Sea and to the Mediterranean Sea. The stream will never run dry.<ref>Ralph L. Smith, Micah–Malachi, vol. 32, Word Biblical Commentary (Dallas: Word, Incorporated, 1984), 288–289.</ref> | | With continuous day there will be no clouds and no rain. The land will be watered by a stream of living water flowing out of Jerusalem (cf. Ezek 47:1–12; Joel 3:18; Rev 22:1–2). Here in Zech 14 the living water will flow to the Dead Sea and to the Mediterranean Sea. The stream will never run dry.<ref>Ralph L. Smith, Micah–Malachi, vol. 32, Word Biblical Commentary (Dallas: Word, Incorporated, 1984), 288–289.</ref> |