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Zechariah 14:7 should be read in context: | |||
:'' | :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. | ||
:'' | :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. | ||
:'''''On that day''' | :6 - '''''On that day''' there shall be '''no light, cold, or frost'''. | ||
:''And | :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.''' | ||
: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. | |||
:''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). | :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> | ||
There will be one continuous day (Isa 60:19–20). John picks up this theme in Rev 21:22–25: | |||
:''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). | |||
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> | ||