| Zec
14:1 |
Behold, the day of
the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. |
1874 – the beginning of The Thousand Year
Day.
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| Zec
14:2 |
For I will gather
all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken,
and
the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall
go
forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut
off
from the city. |
1948 – 7 armies* attack Israel.
(Long
story, but around 100,000 Jews lived in and around Jerusalem. The
UN
had determined it would be "internationalized", but in the end, the
Jews
held half the city, and Jordan the other half, and the city was
divided
for the first time in it's history. The arabs mistreated Jewish
women,
and desecrated Jewish holy sites. the Israelis ultimately built a "Burma Road'
that
was completed in June of 1948 and broke the siege of Jerusalem.
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| Zec
14:3 |
Then shall the LORD
go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day
of battle. |
1948 Czech weapons
1956 tow missiles (from A. Haige)
1967 6 day war - retaking Jerusalem
1973 Yom Kippur
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| Zec
14:4 |
And his feet shall
stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which [is] before Jerusalem
on
the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof
toward the east and toward the west, [and there shall be] a very great
valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and
half of it toward the south. |
1948-Today The modern government of Israel
is divided along liberal vs. conservative lines. "North" is Heaven,
South is Earth. The conservatives believe in G-D. The
liberal democrats are atheistic socialists.
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| Zec
14:5 |
And ye shall flee
[to] the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall
reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the
earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God
shall come, [and] all the saints with thee. |
God's natural people Israel will take
refuge in the comforting shadows of the prevailing governing
philosophy. “Azal” meaning “Reserved” (See Strongs) – conservative
Messiah and the Martyrs will rescue Israel.
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| Zec
14:6 |
And it shall come
to pass in that day, [that] the light shall not be clear, [nor] dark: |
That Millennial Day, after the Saints are
"come." It will not be a time of happiness and certainty!
Nor will it be completely evil, as the Gospel Age had at times
been.
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| Zec
14:7 |
But it shall be one
day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall
come to pass, [that] at evening time it shall be light. |
The Millennial day will be a time of
negative uncertainty under growing light of discovery. By the
"evening" of the Millennium, people will obtain fuller understanding of
the Truth, and the curse will be lifted further.
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| Zec
14:8 |
And it shall be in
that day, [that] living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of
them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in
summer and in winter shall it be. |
The death process stops as people learn
from the earth's Capital what steps they should take. These
"living
waters" will be applied to the "former sea" people who are still alive
at that time, and also applied to those of the "hinder sea" -
those
who have lived before.
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| Zec
14:9 |
And the LORD shall
be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and
his name one. |
People will have a knowledge of the Truth,
from sea to sea, and the Trinity doctrine and other such falsehoods
will be done away with for true monotheism.
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| Zec
14:10 |
All the land shall
be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it
shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate
unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and [from] the
tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses. |
A level playing field for all. when
Jerusalem rules, her gates and towers restored, which may be emblematic
of aspects of her sovereignty. Details?
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| Zec
14:11 |
And [men] shall
dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but
Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited. |
A promise that from this time God's
protection will be over the Holy city once and for all.
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| Zec
14:12 |
And this shall be
the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have
fought
against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon
their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their
tongue shall consume away in their mouth. |
Time backs up, to the previous conflict
that led to peace. Some interpret this literally and say this is
the
result of nuclear weapons. I see it as figurative, but the
details
are not plain as yet.
Perhaps this: Their flesh shall "rot". This is the end of
the age, after the saints or "salt" of the earth has left the scene, so
there is no further preserving agent. This is a time of
degenerating
morals, when people are living "according to the flesh" as the Apostles
say. Many live purely rotten lifestyles, even as their nation is
standing
tall as the earths richest ever. Their eyes are rotten?
i.e.
news media covering "O.J." - people watching so much TV, everything
they
see seems rotten, and everything they say is rotten!
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| Zec
14:13 |
And it shall come
to pass in that day, [that] a great tumult from the LORD shall be among
them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbor,
and
his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor. |
August 15-25, 2005 Gaza Pullout
"Disengagement"
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| Zec
14:14 |
And Judah also shall
fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall
be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great
abundance. |
The "settler" population are those who are
being dispossessed of their inherited land, and they are also those who
carry the torch of Judaism for the nation. "Judah" therefore has
a conflict with the then capital Jerusalem, when it was under control
of leftist self-denying Jews. There is a lot of money involved,
as the US, Britain, the E.U. and Russia all are paying a great deal of
money to see a Palestinian State become a reality, so as to appease
their arab oil providers. Also the textile industry is big in the
arab world. And there has been no greater time of abundance than
now in history.
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| Zec
14:15 |
And so shall be the
plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of
all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague. |
Modes of transportation will be shut down
without the oil from the arab world, and that of Venezuela, who are
currently plaguing the USA with threats of a boycott.
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| Zec
14:16 |
And it shall come
to pass, [that] every one that is left of all the nations which came
against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the
King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. |
The world will have to become Jewish.
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| Zec
14:17 |
And it shall be,
[that] whoso will not come up of [all] the families of the earth unto
Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall
be no rain. |
Those who won't obey the dictates of the
New Covenant will not receive the benefits from it.
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| Zec
14:18 |
And if the family
of Egypt go not up, and come not, that [have] no [rain]; there shall be
the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up
to
keep the feast of tabernacles. |
Egypt is symbolic for the world.
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| Zec
14:19 |
This shall be the
punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up
to keep the feast of tabernacles. |
The entire world will be required to learn
of Jewish heritage and culture and the meaning of their holy days.
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| Zec
14:20 |
In that day shall
there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the
pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the bowls before the altar. |
Pure doctrinal notes ringing out...
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| Zec
14:21 |
Yea, every pot in
Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and
all
they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein:
and
in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the
LORD
of hosts. |
Gone will be the leftist mentality in
Israel, and the 5th column of enemies among them will no longer be
there.
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