XIZECHARIAH 12-14 AND

THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM

XIZECHARIAH 12-14 AND

THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM

and all Israel shall be saved

what will their acceptance be but life from the dead

This set develops the final element in this

sequence focusing on Zechariahrsquos contribution

Covenant Set Testimony from Abraham to Moses and Joshua

establishes the sequence of Jewish history

Timeline Set Testimony from Daniel and Jeremiah lays out

the basic time frame of Jewish history

Diaspora Prophesied Jesus Moses Ezekiel trace the

trajectory of Jewish diaspora and return

Mechanics of the End Ezekiel Daniel and Zechariah

take the witness stand and describe the final acts of

Jewish history

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XIZECHARIAH 12-14 AND

THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM

and all Israel shall be saved

what will their acceptance be but life from the dead

This set develops the final element in this

sequence focusing on Zechariahrsquos contribution

Covenant Set Testimony from Abraham to Moses and Joshua

establishes the sequence of Jewish history

Timeline Set Testimony from Daniel and Jeremiah lays out

the basic time frame of Jewish history

Diaspora Prophesied Jesus Moses Ezekiel trace the

trajectory of Jewish diaspora and return

Mechanics of the End Ezekiel Daniel and Zechariah

take the witness stand and describe the final acts of

Jewish history

SlideSharersquos hyperlinks wonrsquot work until Slide 4ndash

something to do with spam prevention so this is a filler designed to

accommodate that necessity Irsquom well aware of how irrepressibly cute I appear I run this house by the

power of kitty cuteness

EMAIL leonardhoygmailcom

Basic InformationLICENSING I grant a Creative Commons license made of the following elements You may freely share and adapt this work provided you give me creditndash(website info fine) your efforts have no commercial application and you share extractedredacted work with others God bless and have fun

VISIT skOG Workshop Headquarters at wwwlennyhoycom for other items of interest

Prophecy Series 33 Presentation Set

Table of ContentsIMAGES

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By Permission Creative Commons Licensing as noted

This set develops the final element in this

sequence focusing on Zechariahrsquos contribution

Covenant Set Testimony from Abraham to Moses and Joshua

establishes the sequence of Jewish history

Timeline Set Testimony from Daniel and Jeremiah lays out

the basic time frame of Jewish history

Diaspora Prophesied Jesus Moses Ezekiel trace the

trajectory of Jewish diaspora and return

Mechanics of the End Ezekiel Daniel and Zechariah

take the witness stand and describe the final acts of

Jewish history

SlideSharersquos hyperlinks wonrsquot work until Slide 4ndash

something to do with spam prevention so this is a filler designed to

accommodate that necessity Irsquom well aware of how irrepressibly cute I appear I run this house by the

power of kitty cuteness

EMAIL leonardhoygmailcom

Basic InformationLICENSING I grant a Creative Commons license made of the following elements You may freely share and adapt this work provided you give me creditndash(website info fine) your efforts have no commercial application and you share extractedredacted work with others God bless and have fun

VISIT skOG Workshop Headquarters at wwwlennyhoycom for other items of interest

Prophecy Series 33 Presentation Set

Table of ContentsIMAGES

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By Permission Creative Commons Licensing as noted

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something to do with spam prevention so this is a filler designed to

accommodate that necessity Irsquom well aware of how irrepressibly cute I appear I run this house by the

power of kitty cuteness

EMAIL leonardhoygmailcom

Basic InformationLICENSING I grant a Creative Commons license made of the following elements You may freely share and adapt this work provided you give me creditndash(website info fine) your efforts have no commercial application and you share extractedredacted work with others God bless and have fun

VISIT skOG Workshop Headquarters at wwwlennyhoycom for other items of interest

Prophecy Series 33 Presentation Set

Table of ContentsIMAGES

By Subscription httpwwwinstonebrewercombpg2009frameshtmmembersmember_pagephp

By Permission Creative Commons Licensing as noted

EMAIL leonardhoygmailcom

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VISIT skOG Workshop Headquarters at wwwlennyhoycom for other items of interest

Prophecy Series 33 Presentation Set

Table of ContentsIMAGES

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By Permission Creative Commons Licensing as noted

I FROM GOG TO FINAL RESCUEFive Steps to the End

Ezekiel 37-39 =gt Daniel 11 =gt Zechariah 12+14

A PACT WITH THE DEVIL (But he seems so nice)

THE DEVIL UNLEASHED (Who could have seen this coming)

THE WOLF AMONG THE SHEEP (Time of Jacobrsquos Trouble)

RESCUE AT THE END (So close to extinction)

GOGrsquoS ATTACK ON ISRAEL (Ezekielrsquos Vision of the Dry Bones)

1 GOGrsquoS ATTACK ON ISRAEL(From Ezekiel 37-39)

I covered this attack in detail several presentations back Click here to check it out

I place Gogrsquos attack before the seven-years of the 70th WeekTribulation

Israel emerges from Gogrsquos failed attack confident of Jehovahrsquos blessing perhaps even cocky Such pride would explain the blindness with which they soon act Such pride might explain why they seemingly replicate the internal squabbling that gave Antiochus Epiphanes his early advantage back in the time of the Maccabees (circa 170rsquos and 160rsquos BC)

Ezekiel 37-39 =gt Daniel 11 =gt Zechariah 12+14

A PACT WITH THE DEVIL (But he seems so nice)

THE DEVIL UNLEASHED (Who could have seen this coming)

THE WOLF AMONG THE SHEEP (Time of Jacobrsquos Trouble)

RESCUE AT THE END (So close to extinction)

GOGrsquoS ATTACK ON ISRAEL (Ezekielrsquos Vision of the Dry Bones)

1 GOGrsquoS ATTACK ON ISRAEL(From Ezekiel 37-39)

I covered this attack in detail several presentations back Click here to check it out

I place Gogrsquos attack before the seven-years of the 70th WeekTribulation

Israel emerges from Gogrsquos failed attack confident of Jehovahrsquos blessing perhaps even cocky Such pride would explain the blindness with which they soon act Such pride might explain why they seemingly replicate the internal squabbling that gave Antiochus Epiphanes his early advantage back in the time of the Maccabees (circa 170rsquos and 160rsquos BC)

1 GOGrsquoS ATTACK ON ISRAEL(From Ezekiel 37-39)

I covered this attack in detail several presentations back Click here to check it out

I place Gogrsquos attack before the seven-years of the 70th WeekTribulation

Israel emerges from Gogrsquos failed attack confident of Jehovahrsquos blessing perhaps even cocky Such pride would explain the blindness with which they soon act Such pride might explain why they seemingly replicate the internal squabbling that gave Antiochus Epiphanes his early advantage back in the time of the Maccabees (circa 170rsquos and 160rsquos BC)

2 A PACT WITH THE DEVIL(From Daniel 1121)

21ldquoIn his place a despicable person will arise on

whom the honor of kingship has not been

conferred but he will come in a time of tranquility

and seize the kingdom by intrigue 22 The

overflowing forces will be flooded away before

him and shattered and also the prince of the

covenant 23 After an alliance is made with him he

will practice deception and he will go up and gain

power with a small force of peoplerdquo

AntiChrist

I cannot settle on a place of origin for this individual who will in time become the AntiChrist Makes my head hurt

He lsquoseizes the kingdomrsquo by intrigue which suggests collusion with Jewish political factions and THEN he violently shatters the alarmed opposition

ldquoPrince of the Covenantrdquo hmm Could this be the duly appointed Jewish religious leader of the time

The ldquofirm covenant for one weekrdquo or seven years from Daniel 927

Antiochus Epiphanes

Antiochus Epiphanes was the ruler of one of the four sections of Alexander the Greatrsquos empirendashthe Syrian section which included Israel He was nuts Really

Antiochus Epiphanes used divisions among Jewish elite to politicize Israelrsquos religious system First one side bribed him for advantage and then the other

He it is whose stopping of the regular sacrifice and desecration of the temple prefigure the behavior of the AntiChrist so called

The final AntiChrist will model my evil ways

3 THE DEVIL UNLEASHED(From Daniel 1131)

31ldquoForces from him will arise desecrate the sanctuary fortress and do away with the regular sacrifice And they will set up the abomination of desolation 32 By smooth words he will turn to godlessness those who act wickedly toward the covenant but the people who know their God will display strength and take actionrdquo

AntiChrist

This answers to Daniel 927rsquos lsquoin the middle of the week rsquo that is 3 frac12 years into the 7 year covenantalliance

Odd phrasing here Hersquos simply moving an ALREADY wicked Jewish faction to additional behaviors Daniel calls lsquogodlessrsquo

ldquoThe people who know their God rsquo Could this be the 144000 Jewish Christians Orthodox Jews

Hard not to think of the Maccabees here again noticing

the parallels to Antiochus Epiphanes and 167 BC

4 WOLF AMONG THE SHEEP(From Daniel 1133)

33ldquoThose who have insight among the people will

give understanding to the many yet they will fall

by sword and by flame by captivity and by plunder for many days 34 Now when they fall they will be granted a little help and many will

join with them in hypocrisy 35 Some of those who

have insight will fall in order to refine purge and

make them pure until the end time because it is

still to come at the appointed timerdquo

AntiChrist

ldquoAnd there will be a time of distress such as never occurred since there was a nation until that time and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedrdquo Dan 121

lsquoin order to rsquo Therersquos an over-arching spiritual purpose that reminds me of Hebrews 1135 lsquo But others were tortured not accepting their release that they might obtain a better resurrection rsquo Whew

Those who join lsquoin hypocrisyrsquo might be hero-wannabes When

things get tough they betray their fellows and run off

4 WOLF AMONG THE SHEEP(From Daniel 1133)

33ldquoThose who have insight among the people will

give understanding to the many yet they will fall

by sword and by flame by captivity and by plunder for many days 34 Now when they fall they will be granted a little help and many will

join with them in hypocrisy 35 Some of those who

have insight will fall in order to refine purge and

make them pure until the end time because it is

still to come at the appointed timerdquo

AntiChrist

lsquoin order to rsquo Therersquos an over-arching spiritual purpose that reminds me of Hebrews 1135 lsquo But others were tortured not accepting their release that they might obtain a better resurrection rsquo Whew

Those who join lsquoin hypocrisyrsquo might be hero-wannabes When

things get tough they betray their fellows and run off

lsquoldquoAlas for that day is great There is none like itAnd it is the time of Jacobrsquos distress But he will be saved from itrdquo Jeremiah 307

5 A DESPERATE RESCUE AT THE END

ldquoFor I will restore you to health And I will heal you of your woundsrsquo declares the Lord lsquoBecause they have called you an outcast saying ldquoIt is Zion no one cares for herrdquorsquordquo

Jeremiah 3017

9ldquoAnd I will bring the third part through the fire Refine them as silver is refined And test them as gold is tested They will call on My name And I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplersquo And they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

Zechariah 139

A loss of ⅔ ofthe population

Why does ⅔ of the population need to perish in this refining process

II THE SEQUENCE AT THE ENDThe New Testament Sets That Sequence

Whatrsquos important to noticeat the End of the Age

Horrendous Events

Heroic Deeds

Graphic DetailsChrist Triumphant

Nick-o-Time Rescue

httpwwwflickrcomphotosthe-g-uk3890598744

Antiochus Epiphanes

Antiochus Epiphanes was the ruler of one of the four sections of Alexander the Greatrsquos empirendashthe Syrian section which included Israel He was nuts Really

Antiochus Epiphanes used divisions among Jewish elite to politicize Israelrsquos religious system First one side bribed him for advantage and then the other

He it is whose stopping of the regular sacrifice and desecration of the temple prefigure the behavior of the AntiChrist so called

The final AntiChrist will model my evil ways

3 THE DEVIL UNLEASHED(From Daniel 1131)

31ldquoForces from him will arise desecrate the sanctuary fortress and do away with the regular sacrifice And they will set up the abomination of desolation 32 By smooth words he will turn to godlessness those who act wickedly toward the covenant but the people who know their God will display strength and take actionrdquo

AntiChrist

This answers to Daniel 927rsquos lsquoin the middle of the week rsquo that is 3 frac12 years into the 7 year covenantalliance

Odd phrasing here Hersquos simply moving an ALREADY wicked Jewish faction to additional behaviors Daniel calls lsquogodlessrsquo

ldquoThe people who know their God rsquo Could this be the 144000 Jewish Christians Orthodox Jews

Hard not to think of the Maccabees here again noticing

the parallels to Antiochus Epiphanes and 167 BC

4 WOLF AMONG THE SHEEP(From Daniel 1133)

33ldquoThose who have insight among the people will

give understanding to the many yet they will fall

by sword and by flame by captivity and by plunder for many days 34 Now when they fall they will be granted a little help and many will

join with them in hypocrisy 35 Some of those who

have insight will fall in order to refine purge and

make them pure until the end time because it is

still to come at the appointed timerdquo

AntiChrist

ldquoAnd there will be a time of distress such as never occurred since there was a nation until that time and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedrdquo Dan 121

lsquoin order to rsquo Therersquos an over-arching spiritual purpose that reminds me of Hebrews 1135 lsquo But others were tortured not accepting their release that they might obtain a better resurrection rsquo Whew

Those who join lsquoin hypocrisyrsquo might be hero-wannabes When

things get tough they betray their fellows and run off

4 WOLF AMONG THE SHEEP(From Daniel 1133)

33ldquoThose who have insight among the people will

give understanding to the many yet they will fall

by sword and by flame by captivity and by plunder for many days 34 Now when they fall they will be granted a little help and many will

join with them in hypocrisy 35 Some of those who

have insight will fall in order to refine purge and

make them pure until the end time because it is

still to come at the appointed timerdquo

AntiChrist

lsquoin order to rsquo Therersquos an over-arching spiritual purpose that reminds me of Hebrews 1135 lsquo But others were tortured not accepting their release that they might obtain a better resurrection rsquo Whew

Those who join lsquoin hypocrisyrsquo might be hero-wannabes When

things get tough they betray their fellows and run off

lsquoldquoAlas for that day is great There is none like itAnd it is the time of Jacobrsquos distress But he will be saved from itrdquo Jeremiah 307

5 A DESPERATE RESCUE AT THE END

ldquoFor I will restore you to health And I will heal you of your woundsrsquo declares the Lord lsquoBecause they have called you an outcast saying ldquoIt is Zion no one cares for herrdquorsquordquo

Jeremiah 3017

9ldquoAnd I will bring the third part through the fire Refine them as silver is refined And test them as gold is tested They will call on My name And I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplersquo And they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

Zechariah 139

A loss of ⅔ ofthe population

Why does ⅔ of the population need to perish in this refining process

II THE SEQUENCE AT THE ENDThe New Testament Sets That Sequence

Whatrsquos important to noticeat the End of the Age

Horrendous Events

Heroic Deeds

Graphic DetailsChrist Triumphant

Nick-o-Time Rescue

httpwwwflickrcomphotosthe-g-uk3890598744

3 THE DEVIL UNLEASHED(From Daniel 1131)

31ldquoForces from him will arise desecrate the sanctuary fortress and do away with the regular sacrifice And they will set up the abomination of desolation 32 By smooth words he will turn to godlessness those who act wickedly toward the covenant but the people who know their God will display strength and take actionrdquo

AntiChrist

This answers to Daniel 927rsquos lsquoin the middle of the week rsquo that is 3 frac12 years into the 7 year covenantalliance

Odd phrasing here Hersquos simply moving an ALREADY wicked Jewish faction to additional behaviors Daniel calls lsquogodlessrsquo

ldquoThe people who know their God rsquo Could this be the 144000 Jewish Christians Orthodox Jews

Hard not to think of the Maccabees here again noticing

the parallels to Antiochus Epiphanes and 167 BC

4 WOLF AMONG THE SHEEP(From Daniel 1133)

33ldquoThose who have insight among the people will

give understanding to the many yet they will fall

by sword and by flame by captivity and by plunder for many days 34 Now when they fall they will be granted a little help and many will

join with them in hypocrisy 35 Some of those who

have insight will fall in order to refine purge and

make them pure until the end time because it is

still to come at the appointed timerdquo

AntiChrist

ldquoAnd there will be a time of distress such as never occurred since there was a nation until that time and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedrdquo Dan 121

lsquoin order to rsquo Therersquos an over-arching spiritual purpose that reminds me of Hebrews 1135 lsquo But others were tortured not accepting their release that they might obtain a better resurrection rsquo Whew

Those who join lsquoin hypocrisyrsquo might be hero-wannabes When

things get tough they betray their fellows and run off

4 WOLF AMONG THE SHEEP(From Daniel 1133)

33ldquoThose who have insight among the people will

give understanding to the many yet they will fall

by sword and by flame by captivity and by plunder for many days 34 Now when they fall they will be granted a little help and many will

join with them in hypocrisy 35 Some of those who

have insight will fall in order to refine purge and

make them pure until the end time because it is

still to come at the appointed timerdquo

AntiChrist

lsquoin order to rsquo Therersquos an over-arching spiritual purpose that reminds me of Hebrews 1135 lsquo But others were tortured not accepting their release that they might obtain a better resurrection rsquo Whew

Those who join lsquoin hypocrisyrsquo might be hero-wannabes When

things get tough they betray their fellows and run off

lsquoldquoAlas for that day is great There is none like itAnd it is the time of Jacobrsquos distress But he will be saved from itrdquo Jeremiah 307

5 A DESPERATE RESCUE AT THE END

ldquoFor I will restore you to health And I will heal you of your woundsrsquo declares the Lord lsquoBecause they have called you an outcast saying ldquoIt is Zion no one cares for herrdquorsquordquo

Jeremiah 3017

9ldquoAnd I will bring the third part through the fire Refine them as silver is refined And test them as gold is tested They will call on My name And I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplersquo And they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

Zechariah 139

A loss of ⅔ ofthe population

Why does ⅔ of the population need to perish in this refining process

II THE SEQUENCE AT THE ENDThe New Testament Sets That Sequence

Whatrsquos important to noticeat the End of the Age

Horrendous Events

Heroic Deeds

Graphic DetailsChrist Triumphant

Nick-o-Time Rescue

httpwwwflickrcomphotosthe-g-uk3890598744

4 WOLF AMONG THE SHEEP(From Daniel 1133)

33ldquoThose who have insight among the people will

give understanding to the many yet they will fall

by sword and by flame by captivity and by plunder for many days 34 Now when they fall they will be granted a little help and many will

join with them in hypocrisy 35 Some of those who

have insight will fall in order to refine purge and

make them pure until the end time because it is

still to come at the appointed timerdquo

AntiChrist

ldquoAnd there will be a time of distress such as never occurred since there was a nation until that time and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedrdquo Dan 121

lsquoin order to rsquo Therersquos an over-arching spiritual purpose that reminds me of Hebrews 1135 lsquo But others were tortured not accepting their release that they might obtain a better resurrection rsquo Whew

Those who join lsquoin hypocrisyrsquo might be hero-wannabes When

things get tough they betray their fellows and run off

4 WOLF AMONG THE SHEEP(From Daniel 1133)

33ldquoThose who have insight among the people will

give understanding to the many yet they will fall

by sword and by flame by captivity and by plunder for many days 34 Now when they fall they will be granted a little help and many will

join with them in hypocrisy 35 Some of those who

have insight will fall in order to refine purge and

make them pure until the end time because it is

still to come at the appointed timerdquo

AntiChrist

lsquoin order to rsquo Therersquos an over-arching spiritual purpose that reminds me of Hebrews 1135 lsquo But others were tortured not accepting their release that they might obtain a better resurrection rsquo Whew

Those who join lsquoin hypocrisyrsquo might be hero-wannabes When

things get tough they betray their fellows and run off

lsquoldquoAlas for that day is great There is none like itAnd it is the time of Jacobrsquos distress But he will be saved from itrdquo Jeremiah 307

5 A DESPERATE RESCUE AT THE END

ldquoFor I will restore you to health And I will heal you of your woundsrsquo declares the Lord lsquoBecause they have called you an outcast saying ldquoIt is Zion no one cares for herrdquorsquordquo

Jeremiah 3017

9ldquoAnd I will bring the third part through the fire Refine them as silver is refined And test them as gold is tested They will call on My name And I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplersquo And they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

Zechariah 139

A loss of ⅔ ofthe population

Why does ⅔ of the population need to perish in this refining process

II THE SEQUENCE AT THE ENDThe New Testament Sets That Sequence

Whatrsquos important to noticeat the End of the Age

Horrendous Events

Heroic Deeds

Graphic DetailsChrist Triumphant

Nick-o-Time Rescue

httpwwwflickrcomphotosthe-g-uk3890598744

4 WOLF AMONG THE SHEEP(From Daniel 1133)

33ldquoThose who have insight among the people will

give understanding to the many yet they will fall

by sword and by flame by captivity and by plunder for many days 34 Now when they fall they will be granted a little help and many will

join with them in hypocrisy 35 Some of those who

have insight will fall in order to refine purge and

make them pure until the end time because it is

still to come at the appointed timerdquo

AntiChrist

lsquoin order to rsquo Therersquos an over-arching spiritual purpose that reminds me of Hebrews 1135 lsquo But others were tortured not accepting their release that they might obtain a better resurrection rsquo Whew

Those who join lsquoin hypocrisyrsquo might be hero-wannabes When

things get tough they betray their fellows and run off

lsquoldquoAlas for that day is great There is none like itAnd it is the time of Jacobrsquos distress But he will be saved from itrdquo Jeremiah 307

5 A DESPERATE RESCUE AT THE END

ldquoFor I will restore you to health And I will heal you of your woundsrsquo declares the Lord lsquoBecause they have called you an outcast saying ldquoIt is Zion no one cares for herrdquorsquordquo

Jeremiah 3017

9ldquoAnd I will bring the third part through the fire Refine them as silver is refined And test them as gold is tested They will call on My name And I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplersquo And they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

Zechariah 139

A loss of ⅔ ofthe population

Why does ⅔ of the population need to perish in this refining process

II THE SEQUENCE AT THE ENDThe New Testament Sets That Sequence

Whatrsquos important to noticeat the End of the Age

Horrendous Events

Heroic Deeds

Graphic DetailsChrist Triumphant

Nick-o-Time Rescue

httpwwwflickrcomphotosthe-g-uk3890598744

5 A DESPERATE RESCUE AT THE END

ldquoFor I will restore you to health And I will heal you of your woundsrsquo declares the Lord lsquoBecause they have called you an outcast saying ldquoIt is Zion no one cares for herrdquorsquordquo

Jeremiah 3017

9ldquoAnd I will bring the third part through the fire Refine them as silver is refined And test them as gold is tested They will call on My name And I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplersquo And they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

Zechariah 139

A loss of ⅔ ofthe population

Why does ⅔ of the population need to perish in this refining process

II THE SEQUENCE AT THE ENDThe New Testament Sets That Sequence

Whatrsquos important to noticeat the End of the Age

Horrendous Events

Heroic Deeds

Graphic DetailsChrist Triumphant

Nick-o-Time Rescue

httpwwwflickrcomphotosthe-g-uk3890598744

II THE SEQUENCE AT THE ENDThe New Testament Sets That Sequence

Whatrsquos important to noticeat the End of the Age

Horrendous Events

Heroic Deeds

Graphic DetailsChrist Triumphant

Nick-o-Time Rescue

httpwwwflickrcomphotosthe-g-uk3890598744

Whatrsquos important to noticeat the End of the Age

Horrendous Events

Heroic Deeds

Graphic DetailsChrist Triumphant

Nick-o-Time Rescue

httpwwwflickrcomphotosthe-g-uk3890598744

Whatrsquos important to noticeat the End of the Age

Horrendous Events

Heroic Deeds

Graphic DetailsChrist Triumphant

Nick-o-Times Rescue

httpwwwflickrcomphotosthe-g-uk3890598744

As fascinating and important as each of those elements is in its own rightndash

Their most notable and instructive aspect isTHE SEQUENCE in which they occur

What am I up to here

I submit that a survey of several New

Testament passages establishes a sequential

pattern for Israel the Jews the Return of

Christ and the Resurrection

An interesting pattern

I shall then take you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos

final chapters to investigate a narrative in

which we see these very end-times elements

align themselves to that interesting NT pattern

Jesus weeps over Jerusalem-and announces an important sequence

ldquoJerusalem Jerusalem who kills the prophets and stones those

who are sent to her How often I wanted to gather your children together the way a

hen gathers her chicks under her wings and you were unwillingrdquo

ldquoBehold your house is being left to you desolate For I say to you

from now on you will not see Me until you say lsquoBLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN

THE NAME OF THE LORDrsquordquo(MATT 2337-9)

Note well this word

UNTIL tells us that an event cannot happen without the another event having happened FIRST

Jesus weeps over Jerusalem-and announces an important sequence

from now on you will not see Me until you say

lsquoBLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE

LORDrsquordquo

Jesusrsquo use of lsquoUNTILrsquo also implies a cause and effect relationship

Restating this declaration another way we have ldquoYou will see Me again BECAUSEWHEN you say lsquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lordrdquo

Such a construction would seem to make Jesusrsquo Return dependent on the Jews first embracing Him as Messiah

Jesus weeps over Jerusalem-and announces an important sequence

from now on you will not see Me until you say

lsquoBLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE

LORDrsquordquo

Jesusrsquo use of lsquoUNTILrsquo also implies a cause and effect relationship

Restating this declaration another way we have ldquoYou will see Me again BECAUSEWHEN you say lsquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lordrdquo

Such a construction would seem to make Jesusrsquo Return dependent on the Jews first embracing Him as Messiah

Oh sure Like thatrsquos ever going to happen

There had better be some strong scriptural

backup for this one

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

This phrase appears first in Zechariah 1210 with reference to Jews in Jerusalem

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

This phrase appears first in Zechariah 1210 with reference to Jews in Jerusalem

These Jews must therefore have previously called out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lordrdquo to be able to see Him

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

This phrase appears first in Zechariah 1210 with reference to Jews in Jerusalem

These Jews must therefore have previously called out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lordrdquo to be able to see Him

How did this call come about

Paul offers support

25 For I do not want you brethren to be uninformed of this mysterymdashso that you will not be wise in your own estimationmdashthat a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in 26 and so all Israel will be saved just as it is written ldquoTHE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOBrdquoRomans 1125+

Apparently God intervenes on the Jewsrsquo behalves

removing the veil of lsquoungodlinessrsquo from them as a step in their national redemption

Sequence Time we deal once again with the word

UNTIL Jewish national salvation happens

WHENAFTER the lsquofullness of the Gentileslsquo has

come inndashat the end of the age

Notice how ldquoThe Delivererrdquo will remove ungodliness from

Jacobndashtherersquos a spiritual revival and cleansing involved

Paul has more to say

11 I say then they did not stumble so as to fall did they May it never be But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles to make them jealous 12 Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles how much more will their fulfillment be 15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Hmmmm ldquoLife from the deadrdquo might refer

to the resurrection of the dead which happens at the Return of Jesus Christ in fact what else

could this phrase mean

S-o-o-o-o sequence-time again When the Jews

accept Jesus as their Messiah at the end of the

age then He returns and the dead in Christ

rise

You better look for more corroboration on this

one Lenny

Time of the Gentiles finishes

These NT references suggest this sequence

A Deliverer comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

OK dad yoursquod better corroborate that sequence or nobodyrsquos

going to buy it

No sweat Mike Zechariahrsquos got me covered Just keep

smiling

III-A HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

Victory and Redemption in Zechariah 12

2 ldquoBehold I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around and when the siege is against Jerusalem it will also be against Judah 3 It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples all who lift it will be severely injured And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against itrdquo

Chapter 12 gives us an overview of Israel at the end

Jerusalem goes on a rampage

At the end all the world attacks Israel (See Revelation 1614)

Jerusalem is under siege-Judah too

The lsquonationsrsquo get a beat-down

6 ldquoIn that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples while the inhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem 7 The Lord also will save the tents of Judah first so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah 8 In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David and the house of David will be like God like the angel of the Lord before them 9 And in that day I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalemrdquo

126-9 reiterates with details

Judah has a specific military role

Fascinating reference to the lsquohouse of Davidrsquo WUWT

God still deals with tribal grievances and jealousies in Israel

Jerusalem defended secondly

10 ldquoI will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplication so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only son and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn

1210 spotlights the Spiritrsquos role

I First God pours out His Spirit onto Jerusalem and Israel SO THAT

II Secondly Jews will LOOK ON JESUS and mourn and weep over their rejection of their Messiah

First off ldquoSO THATrdquo establishes a cause-and-effect relationship between the versersquos two statements

Godrsquos Spirit must soften hardened Jewish hearts just as He must soften hardened Gentile hearts if we are to be savedHis role is central to everything that happens here

III-B HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

The fountain for impurity in Zechariah 13

1 In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for impurity2 It will come about in that dayrdquo declares the Lord of hosts ldquothat I will cut off the names of the idols from the land and they will no longer be remembered and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the landrdquo

Chapter 131-2 God explains his intention to spiritually cleanse all Israel

Godrsquos grace as a cleansing fountain for an entire nation

The cleansing fountain reaches to families to cities to all the land

God fulfills His intentions for Israel in the 70th Week

An end to sinAtonement for iniquityBring in everlasting righteousness

Verses 3-6 give examples of how this cleansing will affect false prophets and their families

7 ldquoAwake O sword against My Shepherd and against the man My Associaterdquo declares the Lord of hosts

Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered and I will turn My hand against the little onesrdquo

137 anchors us at The Cross

The reference here is to Christ Shepherd of the Jewish flock One with God the Father

The reference here is to the crucifixion of Jesus and subsequent dispersal of the Jews at 70 AD

Zechariah begins here a 3-verse poetic cry with Christrsquos death and the Jewsrsquo

dispersal in 70 AD and then he leaps forward in time to the end of The 70th

Week This historical sweep leaps over a 19 century hiatus in which Israel is

absent from the land I think Revelation 12 presents us with the same pattern

From Christrsquos birth and then over 19 centuries to the Tribulation Itrsquos as if God

wants us to remember the connection the 70th Weekrsquos conclusion makes with all

of redemptive history

8 ldquoIt will come about in all the landrdquo declares the Lord ldquoThat two parts in it will be cut off and perish but the third will be left in it

9 And I will bring the third part through the fire refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested They will call on My name and I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplelsquo and they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

138+9 leap to The End

This incredible slaughter sets the measure of Jewish despair

Here God states His purpose spiritual refinement spiritual brokeness and a national acceptance of Jesus as Messiahndashat last

We see here a measure of national Jewish stubbornness and hardness of heart

Not only must they exhaust all alternatives to Jesus-as-Messiah they must now

resist to the point that their very existence as a people seems seriously in doubt

ldquoHow often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers

her chicks under her wings and you were unwilling rdquo Jesus in Matthew 23

Their unwilling hearts must be broken to make their redemption possible

III-C HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVEDZechariah 14rsquos amazing rescue

1 ldquoBehold a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you

2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city will be captured the houses plundered the women ravished and half of the city exiled but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city

3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when He fights on a day of battlerdquo

141-3 Opens the Newscast

Treat this verse as a FOX NEWS ALERT announcement if you will

4 The Lord goes forth and fights as when He fights on a day of battle Wow

THE LEAD Four steps that explain HOW this spoil comes to get recaptured and divided

1 All nations gathered to attack

2 Jerusalem captured3 Half city exiled half

hold on and then

Notice the sequence

4 ldquoIn that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which is in front of Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel yes you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Himrdquo

144-5 Camera Goes Into the Field

This is first of several lsquofield reportsrsquo which flesh out the segmentrsquos headline and lead

This is huge What a glorious manifestation Here the city is cleared to make way for the engagement of the enemy

Note the word lsquoTHENrsquo it has its parallel at the start of verse 3 above In both cases events occur that set the stage for the Lordrsquos actual engagement with the enemy

Notice another sequence

6 In that day there will be no light the luminaries will dwindle 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night but it will come about that at evening time there will be light

8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea it will be in summer as well as in winter

146-8 Camera Stays In the Field

This verse removes any chance that this

section has historical fulfillment

How frequently does Zechariah identify this climax of the age with this phrase lsquoin that dayrsquo How often does Isaiah use this same phrase to tag the moment of The End With verse 8 the Spirit

begins a lengthy section in which the aftermath of The Lordrsquos Return features prominently

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

Jesus weeps over Jerusalem-and announces an important sequence

ldquoJerusalem Jerusalem who kills the prophets and stones those

who are sent to her How often I wanted to gather your children together the way a

hen gathers her chicks under her wings and you were unwillingrdquo

ldquoBehold your house is being left to you desolate For I say to you

from now on you will not see Me until you say lsquoBLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN

THE NAME OF THE LORDrsquordquo(MATT 2337-9)

Note well this word

UNTIL tells us that an event cannot happen without the another event having happened FIRST

Jesus weeps over Jerusalem-and announces an important sequence

from now on you will not see Me until you say

lsquoBLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE

LORDrsquordquo

Jesusrsquo use of lsquoUNTILrsquo also implies a cause and effect relationship

Restating this declaration another way we have ldquoYou will see Me again BECAUSEWHEN you say lsquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lordrdquo

Such a construction would seem to make Jesusrsquo Return dependent on the Jews first embracing Him as Messiah

Jesus weeps over Jerusalem-and announces an important sequence

from now on you will not see Me until you say

lsquoBLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE

LORDrsquordquo

Jesusrsquo use of lsquoUNTILrsquo also implies a cause and effect relationship

Restating this declaration another way we have ldquoYou will see Me again BECAUSEWHEN you say lsquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lordrdquo

Such a construction would seem to make Jesusrsquo Return dependent on the Jews first embracing Him as Messiah

Oh sure Like thatrsquos ever going to happen

There had better be some strong scriptural

backup for this one

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

This phrase appears first in Zechariah 1210 with reference to Jews in Jerusalem

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

This phrase appears first in Zechariah 1210 with reference to Jews in Jerusalem

These Jews must therefore have previously called out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lordrdquo to be able to see Him

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

This phrase appears first in Zechariah 1210 with reference to Jews in Jerusalem

These Jews must therefore have previously called out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lordrdquo to be able to see Him

How did this call come about

Paul offers support

25 For I do not want you brethren to be uninformed of this mysterymdashso that you will not be wise in your own estimationmdashthat a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in 26 and so all Israel will be saved just as it is written ldquoTHE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOBrdquoRomans 1125+

Apparently God intervenes on the Jewsrsquo behalves

removing the veil of lsquoungodlinessrsquo from them as a step in their national redemption

Sequence Time we deal once again with the word

UNTIL Jewish national salvation happens

WHENAFTER the lsquofullness of the Gentileslsquo has

come inndashat the end of the age

Notice how ldquoThe Delivererrdquo will remove ungodliness from

Jacobndashtherersquos a spiritual revival and cleansing involved

Paul has more to say

11 I say then they did not stumble so as to fall did they May it never be But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles to make them jealous 12 Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles how much more will their fulfillment be 15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Hmmmm ldquoLife from the deadrdquo might refer

to the resurrection of the dead which happens at the Return of Jesus Christ in fact what else

could this phrase mean

S-o-o-o-o sequence-time again When the Jews

accept Jesus as their Messiah at the end of the

age then He returns and the dead in Christ

rise

You better look for more corroboration on this

one Lenny

Time of the Gentiles finishes

These NT references suggest this sequence

A Deliverer comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

OK dad yoursquod better corroborate that sequence or nobodyrsquos

going to buy it

No sweat Mike Zechariahrsquos got me covered Just keep

smiling

III-A HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

Victory and Redemption in Zechariah 12

2 ldquoBehold I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around and when the siege is against Jerusalem it will also be against Judah 3 It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples all who lift it will be severely injured And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against itrdquo

Chapter 12 gives us an overview of Israel at the end

Jerusalem goes on a rampage

At the end all the world attacks Israel (See Revelation 1614)

Jerusalem is under siege-Judah too

The lsquonationsrsquo get a beat-down

6 ldquoIn that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples while the inhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem 7 The Lord also will save the tents of Judah first so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah 8 In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David and the house of David will be like God like the angel of the Lord before them 9 And in that day I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalemrdquo

126-9 reiterates with details

Judah has a specific military role

Fascinating reference to the lsquohouse of Davidrsquo WUWT

God still deals with tribal grievances and jealousies in Israel

Jerusalem defended secondly

10 ldquoI will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplication so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only son and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn

1210 spotlights the Spiritrsquos role

I First God pours out His Spirit onto Jerusalem and Israel SO THAT

II Secondly Jews will LOOK ON JESUS and mourn and weep over their rejection of their Messiah

First off ldquoSO THATrdquo establishes a cause-and-effect relationship between the versersquos two statements

Godrsquos Spirit must soften hardened Jewish hearts just as He must soften hardened Gentile hearts if we are to be savedHis role is central to everything that happens here

III-B HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

The fountain for impurity in Zechariah 13

1 In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for impurity2 It will come about in that dayrdquo declares the Lord of hosts ldquothat I will cut off the names of the idols from the land and they will no longer be remembered and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the landrdquo

Chapter 131-2 God explains his intention to spiritually cleanse all Israel

Godrsquos grace as a cleansing fountain for an entire nation

The cleansing fountain reaches to families to cities to all the land

God fulfills His intentions for Israel in the 70th Week

An end to sinAtonement for iniquityBring in everlasting righteousness

Verses 3-6 give examples of how this cleansing will affect false prophets and their families

7 ldquoAwake O sword against My Shepherd and against the man My Associaterdquo declares the Lord of hosts

Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered and I will turn My hand against the little onesrdquo

137 anchors us at The Cross

The reference here is to Christ Shepherd of the Jewish flock One with God the Father

The reference here is to the crucifixion of Jesus and subsequent dispersal of the Jews at 70 AD

Zechariah begins here a 3-verse poetic cry with Christrsquos death and the Jewsrsquo

dispersal in 70 AD and then he leaps forward in time to the end of The 70th

Week This historical sweep leaps over a 19 century hiatus in which Israel is

absent from the land I think Revelation 12 presents us with the same pattern

From Christrsquos birth and then over 19 centuries to the Tribulation Itrsquos as if God

wants us to remember the connection the 70th Weekrsquos conclusion makes with all

of redemptive history

8 ldquoIt will come about in all the landrdquo declares the Lord ldquoThat two parts in it will be cut off and perish but the third will be left in it

9 And I will bring the third part through the fire refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested They will call on My name and I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplelsquo and they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

138+9 leap to The End

This incredible slaughter sets the measure of Jewish despair

Here God states His purpose spiritual refinement spiritual brokeness and a national acceptance of Jesus as Messiahndashat last

We see here a measure of national Jewish stubbornness and hardness of heart

Not only must they exhaust all alternatives to Jesus-as-Messiah they must now

resist to the point that their very existence as a people seems seriously in doubt

ldquoHow often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers

her chicks under her wings and you were unwilling rdquo Jesus in Matthew 23

Their unwilling hearts must be broken to make their redemption possible

III-C HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVEDZechariah 14rsquos amazing rescue

1 ldquoBehold a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you

2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city will be captured the houses plundered the women ravished and half of the city exiled but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city

3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when He fights on a day of battlerdquo

141-3 Opens the Newscast

Treat this verse as a FOX NEWS ALERT announcement if you will

4 The Lord goes forth and fights as when He fights on a day of battle Wow

THE LEAD Four steps that explain HOW this spoil comes to get recaptured and divided

1 All nations gathered to attack

2 Jerusalem captured3 Half city exiled half

hold on and then

Notice the sequence

4 ldquoIn that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which is in front of Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel yes you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Himrdquo

144-5 Camera Goes Into the Field

This is first of several lsquofield reportsrsquo which flesh out the segmentrsquos headline and lead

This is huge What a glorious manifestation Here the city is cleared to make way for the engagement of the enemy

Note the word lsquoTHENrsquo it has its parallel at the start of verse 3 above In both cases events occur that set the stage for the Lordrsquos actual engagement with the enemy

Notice another sequence

6 In that day there will be no light the luminaries will dwindle 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night but it will come about that at evening time there will be light

8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea it will be in summer as well as in winter

146-8 Camera Stays In the Field

This verse removes any chance that this

section has historical fulfillment

How frequently does Zechariah identify this climax of the age with this phrase lsquoin that dayrsquo How often does Isaiah use this same phrase to tag the moment of The End With verse 8 the Spirit

begins a lengthy section in which the aftermath of The Lordrsquos Return features prominently

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

Jesus weeps over Jerusalem-and announces an important sequence

from now on you will not see Me until you say

lsquoBLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE

LORDrsquordquo

Jesusrsquo use of lsquoUNTILrsquo also implies a cause and effect relationship

Restating this declaration another way we have ldquoYou will see Me again BECAUSEWHEN you say lsquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lordrdquo

Such a construction would seem to make Jesusrsquo Return dependent on the Jews first embracing Him as Messiah

Jesus weeps over Jerusalem-and announces an important sequence

from now on you will not see Me until you say

lsquoBLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE

LORDrsquordquo

Jesusrsquo use of lsquoUNTILrsquo also implies a cause and effect relationship

Restating this declaration another way we have ldquoYou will see Me again BECAUSEWHEN you say lsquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lordrdquo

Such a construction would seem to make Jesusrsquo Return dependent on the Jews first embracing Him as Messiah

Oh sure Like thatrsquos ever going to happen

There had better be some strong scriptural

backup for this one

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

This phrase appears first in Zechariah 1210 with reference to Jews in Jerusalem

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

This phrase appears first in Zechariah 1210 with reference to Jews in Jerusalem

These Jews must therefore have previously called out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lordrdquo to be able to see Him

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

This phrase appears first in Zechariah 1210 with reference to Jews in Jerusalem

These Jews must therefore have previously called out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lordrdquo to be able to see Him

How did this call come about

Paul offers support

25 For I do not want you brethren to be uninformed of this mysterymdashso that you will not be wise in your own estimationmdashthat a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in 26 and so all Israel will be saved just as it is written ldquoTHE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOBrdquoRomans 1125+

Apparently God intervenes on the Jewsrsquo behalves

removing the veil of lsquoungodlinessrsquo from them as a step in their national redemption

Sequence Time we deal once again with the word

UNTIL Jewish national salvation happens

WHENAFTER the lsquofullness of the Gentileslsquo has

come inndashat the end of the age

Notice how ldquoThe Delivererrdquo will remove ungodliness from

Jacobndashtherersquos a spiritual revival and cleansing involved

Paul has more to say

11 I say then they did not stumble so as to fall did they May it never be But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles to make them jealous 12 Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles how much more will their fulfillment be 15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Hmmmm ldquoLife from the deadrdquo might refer

to the resurrection of the dead which happens at the Return of Jesus Christ in fact what else

could this phrase mean

S-o-o-o-o sequence-time again When the Jews

accept Jesus as their Messiah at the end of the

age then He returns and the dead in Christ

rise

You better look for more corroboration on this

one Lenny

Time of the Gentiles finishes

These NT references suggest this sequence

A Deliverer comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

OK dad yoursquod better corroborate that sequence or nobodyrsquos

going to buy it

No sweat Mike Zechariahrsquos got me covered Just keep

smiling

III-A HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

Victory and Redemption in Zechariah 12

2 ldquoBehold I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around and when the siege is against Jerusalem it will also be against Judah 3 It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples all who lift it will be severely injured And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against itrdquo

Chapter 12 gives us an overview of Israel at the end

Jerusalem goes on a rampage

At the end all the world attacks Israel (See Revelation 1614)

Jerusalem is under siege-Judah too

The lsquonationsrsquo get a beat-down

6 ldquoIn that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples while the inhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem 7 The Lord also will save the tents of Judah first so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah 8 In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David and the house of David will be like God like the angel of the Lord before them 9 And in that day I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalemrdquo

126-9 reiterates with details

Judah has a specific military role

Fascinating reference to the lsquohouse of Davidrsquo WUWT

God still deals with tribal grievances and jealousies in Israel

Jerusalem defended secondly

10 ldquoI will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplication so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only son and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn

1210 spotlights the Spiritrsquos role

I First God pours out His Spirit onto Jerusalem and Israel SO THAT

II Secondly Jews will LOOK ON JESUS and mourn and weep over their rejection of their Messiah

First off ldquoSO THATrdquo establishes a cause-and-effect relationship between the versersquos two statements

Godrsquos Spirit must soften hardened Jewish hearts just as He must soften hardened Gentile hearts if we are to be savedHis role is central to everything that happens here

III-B HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

The fountain for impurity in Zechariah 13

1 In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for impurity2 It will come about in that dayrdquo declares the Lord of hosts ldquothat I will cut off the names of the idols from the land and they will no longer be remembered and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the landrdquo

Chapter 131-2 God explains his intention to spiritually cleanse all Israel

Godrsquos grace as a cleansing fountain for an entire nation

The cleansing fountain reaches to families to cities to all the land

God fulfills His intentions for Israel in the 70th Week

An end to sinAtonement for iniquityBring in everlasting righteousness

Verses 3-6 give examples of how this cleansing will affect false prophets and their families

7 ldquoAwake O sword against My Shepherd and against the man My Associaterdquo declares the Lord of hosts

Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered and I will turn My hand against the little onesrdquo

137 anchors us at The Cross

The reference here is to Christ Shepherd of the Jewish flock One with God the Father

The reference here is to the crucifixion of Jesus and subsequent dispersal of the Jews at 70 AD

Zechariah begins here a 3-verse poetic cry with Christrsquos death and the Jewsrsquo

dispersal in 70 AD and then he leaps forward in time to the end of The 70th

Week This historical sweep leaps over a 19 century hiatus in which Israel is

absent from the land I think Revelation 12 presents us with the same pattern

From Christrsquos birth and then over 19 centuries to the Tribulation Itrsquos as if God

wants us to remember the connection the 70th Weekrsquos conclusion makes with all

of redemptive history

8 ldquoIt will come about in all the landrdquo declares the Lord ldquoThat two parts in it will be cut off and perish but the third will be left in it

9 And I will bring the third part through the fire refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested They will call on My name and I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplelsquo and they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

138+9 leap to The End

This incredible slaughter sets the measure of Jewish despair

Here God states His purpose spiritual refinement spiritual brokeness and a national acceptance of Jesus as Messiahndashat last

We see here a measure of national Jewish stubbornness and hardness of heart

Not only must they exhaust all alternatives to Jesus-as-Messiah they must now

resist to the point that their very existence as a people seems seriously in doubt

ldquoHow often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers

her chicks under her wings and you were unwilling rdquo Jesus in Matthew 23

Their unwilling hearts must be broken to make their redemption possible

III-C HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVEDZechariah 14rsquos amazing rescue

1 ldquoBehold a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you

2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city will be captured the houses plundered the women ravished and half of the city exiled but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city

3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when He fights on a day of battlerdquo

141-3 Opens the Newscast

Treat this verse as a FOX NEWS ALERT announcement if you will

4 The Lord goes forth and fights as when He fights on a day of battle Wow

THE LEAD Four steps that explain HOW this spoil comes to get recaptured and divided

1 All nations gathered to attack

2 Jerusalem captured3 Half city exiled half

hold on and then

Notice the sequence

4 ldquoIn that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which is in front of Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel yes you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Himrdquo

144-5 Camera Goes Into the Field

This is first of several lsquofield reportsrsquo which flesh out the segmentrsquos headline and lead

This is huge What a glorious manifestation Here the city is cleared to make way for the engagement of the enemy

Note the word lsquoTHENrsquo it has its parallel at the start of verse 3 above In both cases events occur that set the stage for the Lordrsquos actual engagement with the enemy

Notice another sequence

6 In that day there will be no light the luminaries will dwindle 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night but it will come about that at evening time there will be light

8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea it will be in summer as well as in winter

146-8 Camera Stays In the Field

This verse removes any chance that this

section has historical fulfillment

How frequently does Zechariah identify this climax of the age with this phrase lsquoin that dayrsquo How often does Isaiah use this same phrase to tag the moment of The End With verse 8 the Spirit

begins a lengthy section in which the aftermath of The Lordrsquos Return features prominently

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

Jesus weeps over Jerusalem-and announces an important sequence

from now on you will not see Me until you say

lsquoBLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE

LORDrsquordquo

Jesusrsquo use of lsquoUNTILrsquo also implies a cause and effect relationship

Restating this declaration another way we have ldquoYou will see Me again BECAUSEWHEN you say lsquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lordrdquo

Such a construction would seem to make Jesusrsquo Return dependent on the Jews first embracing Him as Messiah

Oh sure Like thatrsquos ever going to happen

There had better be some strong scriptural

backup for this one

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

This phrase appears first in Zechariah 1210 with reference to Jews in Jerusalem

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

This phrase appears first in Zechariah 1210 with reference to Jews in Jerusalem

These Jews must therefore have previously called out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lordrdquo to be able to see Him

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

This phrase appears first in Zechariah 1210 with reference to Jews in Jerusalem

These Jews must therefore have previously called out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lordrdquo to be able to see Him

How did this call come about

Paul offers support

25 For I do not want you brethren to be uninformed of this mysterymdashso that you will not be wise in your own estimationmdashthat a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in 26 and so all Israel will be saved just as it is written ldquoTHE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOBrdquoRomans 1125+

Apparently God intervenes on the Jewsrsquo behalves

removing the veil of lsquoungodlinessrsquo from them as a step in their national redemption

Sequence Time we deal once again with the word

UNTIL Jewish national salvation happens

WHENAFTER the lsquofullness of the Gentileslsquo has

come inndashat the end of the age

Notice how ldquoThe Delivererrdquo will remove ungodliness from

Jacobndashtherersquos a spiritual revival and cleansing involved

Paul has more to say

11 I say then they did not stumble so as to fall did they May it never be But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles to make them jealous 12 Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles how much more will their fulfillment be 15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Hmmmm ldquoLife from the deadrdquo might refer

to the resurrection of the dead which happens at the Return of Jesus Christ in fact what else

could this phrase mean

S-o-o-o-o sequence-time again When the Jews

accept Jesus as their Messiah at the end of the

age then He returns and the dead in Christ

rise

You better look for more corroboration on this

one Lenny

Time of the Gentiles finishes

These NT references suggest this sequence

A Deliverer comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

OK dad yoursquod better corroborate that sequence or nobodyrsquos

going to buy it

No sweat Mike Zechariahrsquos got me covered Just keep

smiling

III-A HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

Victory and Redemption in Zechariah 12

2 ldquoBehold I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around and when the siege is against Jerusalem it will also be against Judah 3 It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples all who lift it will be severely injured And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against itrdquo

Chapter 12 gives us an overview of Israel at the end

Jerusalem goes on a rampage

At the end all the world attacks Israel (See Revelation 1614)

Jerusalem is under siege-Judah too

The lsquonationsrsquo get a beat-down

6 ldquoIn that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples while the inhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem 7 The Lord also will save the tents of Judah first so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah 8 In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David and the house of David will be like God like the angel of the Lord before them 9 And in that day I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalemrdquo

126-9 reiterates with details

Judah has a specific military role

Fascinating reference to the lsquohouse of Davidrsquo WUWT

God still deals with tribal grievances and jealousies in Israel

Jerusalem defended secondly

10 ldquoI will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplication so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only son and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn

1210 spotlights the Spiritrsquos role

I First God pours out His Spirit onto Jerusalem and Israel SO THAT

II Secondly Jews will LOOK ON JESUS and mourn and weep over their rejection of their Messiah

First off ldquoSO THATrdquo establishes a cause-and-effect relationship between the versersquos two statements

Godrsquos Spirit must soften hardened Jewish hearts just as He must soften hardened Gentile hearts if we are to be savedHis role is central to everything that happens here

III-B HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

The fountain for impurity in Zechariah 13

1 In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for impurity2 It will come about in that dayrdquo declares the Lord of hosts ldquothat I will cut off the names of the idols from the land and they will no longer be remembered and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the landrdquo

Chapter 131-2 God explains his intention to spiritually cleanse all Israel

Godrsquos grace as a cleansing fountain for an entire nation

The cleansing fountain reaches to families to cities to all the land

God fulfills His intentions for Israel in the 70th Week

An end to sinAtonement for iniquityBring in everlasting righteousness

Verses 3-6 give examples of how this cleansing will affect false prophets and their families

7 ldquoAwake O sword against My Shepherd and against the man My Associaterdquo declares the Lord of hosts

Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered and I will turn My hand against the little onesrdquo

137 anchors us at The Cross

The reference here is to Christ Shepherd of the Jewish flock One with God the Father

The reference here is to the crucifixion of Jesus and subsequent dispersal of the Jews at 70 AD

Zechariah begins here a 3-verse poetic cry with Christrsquos death and the Jewsrsquo

dispersal in 70 AD and then he leaps forward in time to the end of The 70th

Week This historical sweep leaps over a 19 century hiatus in which Israel is

absent from the land I think Revelation 12 presents us with the same pattern

From Christrsquos birth and then over 19 centuries to the Tribulation Itrsquos as if God

wants us to remember the connection the 70th Weekrsquos conclusion makes with all

of redemptive history

8 ldquoIt will come about in all the landrdquo declares the Lord ldquoThat two parts in it will be cut off and perish but the third will be left in it

9 And I will bring the third part through the fire refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested They will call on My name and I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplelsquo and they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

138+9 leap to The End

This incredible slaughter sets the measure of Jewish despair

Here God states His purpose spiritual refinement spiritual brokeness and a national acceptance of Jesus as Messiahndashat last

We see here a measure of national Jewish stubbornness and hardness of heart

Not only must they exhaust all alternatives to Jesus-as-Messiah they must now

resist to the point that their very existence as a people seems seriously in doubt

ldquoHow often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers

her chicks under her wings and you were unwilling rdquo Jesus in Matthew 23

Their unwilling hearts must be broken to make their redemption possible

III-C HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVEDZechariah 14rsquos amazing rescue

1 ldquoBehold a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you

2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city will be captured the houses plundered the women ravished and half of the city exiled but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city

3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when He fights on a day of battlerdquo

141-3 Opens the Newscast

Treat this verse as a FOX NEWS ALERT announcement if you will

4 The Lord goes forth and fights as when He fights on a day of battle Wow

THE LEAD Four steps that explain HOW this spoil comes to get recaptured and divided

1 All nations gathered to attack

2 Jerusalem captured3 Half city exiled half

hold on and then

Notice the sequence

4 ldquoIn that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which is in front of Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel yes you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Himrdquo

144-5 Camera Goes Into the Field

This is first of several lsquofield reportsrsquo which flesh out the segmentrsquos headline and lead

This is huge What a glorious manifestation Here the city is cleared to make way for the engagement of the enemy

Note the word lsquoTHENrsquo it has its parallel at the start of verse 3 above In both cases events occur that set the stage for the Lordrsquos actual engagement with the enemy

Notice another sequence

6 In that day there will be no light the luminaries will dwindle 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night but it will come about that at evening time there will be light

8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea it will be in summer as well as in winter

146-8 Camera Stays In the Field

This verse removes any chance that this

section has historical fulfillment

How frequently does Zechariah identify this climax of the age with this phrase lsquoin that dayrsquo How often does Isaiah use this same phrase to tag the moment of The End With verse 8 the Spirit

begins a lengthy section in which the aftermath of The Lordrsquos Return features prominently

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

This phrase appears first in Zechariah 1210 with reference to Jews in Jerusalem

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

This phrase appears first in Zechariah 1210 with reference to Jews in Jerusalem

These Jews must therefore have previously called out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lordrdquo to be able to see Him

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

This phrase appears first in Zechariah 1210 with reference to Jews in Jerusalem

These Jews must therefore have previously called out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lordrdquo to be able to see Him

How did this call come about

Paul offers support

25 For I do not want you brethren to be uninformed of this mysterymdashso that you will not be wise in your own estimationmdashthat a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in 26 and so all Israel will be saved just as it is written ldquoTHE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOBrdquoRomans 1125+

Apparently God intervenes on the Jewsrsquo behalves

removing the veil of lsquoungodlinessrsquo from them as a step in their national redemption

Sequence Time we deal once again with the word

UNTIL Jewish national salvation happens

WHENAFTER the lsquofullness of the Gentileslsquo has

come inndashat the end of the age

Notice how ldquoThe Delivererrdquo will remove ungodliness from

Jacobndashtherersquos a spiritual revival and cleansing involved

Paul has more to say

11 I say then they did not stumble so as to fall did they May it never be But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles to make them jealous 12 Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles how much more will their fulfillment be 15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Hmmmm ldquoLife from the deadrdquo might refer

to the resurrection of the dead which happens at the Return of Jesus Christ in fact what else

could this phrase mean

S-o-o-o-o sequence-time again When the Jews

accept Jesus as their Messiah at the end of the

age then He returns and the dead in Christ

rise

You better look for more corroboration on this

one Lenny

Time of the Gentiles finishes

These NT references suggest this sequence

A Deliverer comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

OK dad yoursquod better corroborate that sequence or nobodyrsquos

going to buy it

No sweat Mike Zechariahrsquos got me covered Just keep

smiling

III-A HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

Victory and Redemption in Zechariah 12

2 ldquoBehold I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around and when the siege is against Jerusalem it will also be against Judah 3 It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples all who lift it will be severely injured And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against itrdquo

Chapter 12 gives us an overview of Israel at the end

Jerusalem goes on a rampage

At the end all the world attacks Israel (See Revelation 1614)

Jerusalem is under siege-Judah too

The lsquonationsrsquo get a beat-down

6 ldquoIn that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples while the inhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem 7 The Lord also will save the tents of Judah first so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah 8 In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David and the house of David will be like God like the angel of the Lord before them 9 And in that day I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalemrdquo

126-9 reiterates with details

Judah has a specific military role

Fascinating reference to the lsquohouse of Davidrsquo WUWT

God still deals with tribal grievances and jealousies in Israel

Jerusalem defended secondly

10 ldquoI will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplication so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only son and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn

1210 spotlights the Spiritrsquos role

I First God pours out His Spirit onto Jerusalem and Israel SO THAT

II Secondly Jews will LOOK ON JESUS and mourn and weep over their rejection of their Messiah

First off ldquoSO THATrdquo establishes a cause-and-effect relationship between the versersquos two statements

Godrsquos Spirit must soften hardened Jewish hearts just as He must soften hardened Gentile hearts if we are to be savedHis role is central to everything that happens here

III-B HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

The fountain for impurity in Zechariah 13

1 In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for impurity2 It will come about in that dayrdquo declares the Lord of hosts ldquothat I will cut off the names of the idols from the land and they will no longer be remembered and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the landrdquo

Chapter 131-2 God explains his intention to spiritually cleanse all Israel

Godrsquos grace as a cleansing fountain for an entire nation

The cleansing fountain reaches to families to cities to all the land

God fulfills His intentions for Israel in the 70th Week

An end to sinAtonement for iniquityBring in everlasting righteousness

Verses 3-6 give examples of how this cleansing will affect false prophets and their families

7 ldquoAwake O sword against My Shepherd and against the man My Associaterdquo declares the Lord of hosts

Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered and I will turn My hand against the little onesrdquo

137 anchors us at The Cross

The reference here is to Christ Shepherd of the Jewish flock One with God the Father

The reference here is to the crucifixion of Jesus and subsequent dispersal of the Jews at 70 AD

Zechariah begins here a 3-verse poetic cry with Christrsquos death and the Jewsrsquo

dispersal in 70 AD and then he leaps forward in time to the end of The 70th

Week This historical sweep leaps over a 19 century hiatus in which Israel is

absent from the land I think Revelation 12 presents us with the same pattern

From Christrsquos birth and then over 19 centuries to the Tribulation Itrsquos as if God

wants us to remember the connection the 70th Weekrsquos conclusion makes with all

of redemptive history

8 ldquoIt will come about in all the landrdquo declares the Lord ldquoThat two parts in it will be cut off and perish but the third will be left in it

9 And I will bring the third part through the fire refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested They will call on My name and I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplelsquo and they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

138+9 leap to The End

This incredible slaughter sets the measure of Jewish despair

Here God states His purpose spiritual refinement spiritual brokeness and a national acceptance of Jesus as Messiahndashat last

We see here a measure of national Jewish stubbornness and hardness of heart

Not only must they exhaust all alternatives to Jesus-as-Messiah they must now

resist to the point that their very existence as a people seems seriously in doubt

ldquoHow often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers

her chicks under her wings and you were unwilling rdquo Jesus in Matthew 23

Their unwilling hearts must be broken to make their redemption possible

III-C HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVEDZechariah 14rsquos amazing rescue

1 ldquoBehold a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you

2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city will be captured the houses plundered the women ravished and half of the city exiled but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city

3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when He fights on a day of battlerdquo

141-3 Opens the Newscast

Treat this verse as a FOX NEWS ALERT announcement if you will

4 The Lord goes forth and fights as when He fights on a day of battle Wow

THE LEAD Four steps that explain HOW this spoil comes to get recaptured and divided

1 All nations gathered to attack

2 Jerusalem captured3 Half city exiled half

hold on and then

Notice the sequence

4 ldquoIn that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which is in front of Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel yes you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Himrdquo

144-5 Camera Goes Into the Field

This is first of several lsquofield reportsrsquo which flesh out the segmentrsquos headline and lead

This is huge What a glorious manifestation Here the city is cleared to make way for the engagement of the enemy

Note the word lsquoTHENrsquo it has its parallel at the start of verse 3 above In both cases events occur that set the stage for the Lordrsquos actual engagement with the enemy

Notice another sequence

6 In that day there will be no light the luminaries will dwindle 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night but it will come about that at evening time there will be light

8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea it will be in summer as well as in winter

146-8 Camera Stays In the Field

This verse removes any chance that this

section has historical fulfillment

How frequently does Zechariah identify this climax of the age with this phrase lsquoin that dayrsquo How often does Isaiah use this same phrase to tag the moment of The End With verse 8 the Spirit

begins a lengthy section in which the aftermath of The Lordrsquos Return features prominently

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

This phrase appears first in Zechariah 1210 with reference to Jews in Jerusalem

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

This phrase appears first in Zechariah 1210 with reference to Jews in Jerusalem

These Jews must therefore have previously called out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lordrdquo to be able to see Him

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

This phrase appears first in Zechariah 1210 with reference to Jews in Jerusalem

These Jews must therefore have previously called out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lordrdquo to be able to see Him

How did this call come about

Paul offers support

25 For I do not want you brethren to be uninformed of this mysterymdashso that you will not be wise in your own estimationmdashthat a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in 26 and so all Israel will be saved just as it is written ldquoTHE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOBrdquoRomans 1125+

Apparently God intervenes on the Jewsrsquo behalves

removing the veil of lsquoungodlinessrsquo from them as a step in their national redemption

Sequence Time we deal once again with the word

UNTIL Jewish national salvation happens

WHENAFTER the lsquofullness of the Gentileslsquo has

come inndashat the end of the age

Notice how ldquoThe Delivererrdquo will remove ungodliness from

Jacobndashtherersquos a spiritual revival and cleansing involved

Paul has more to say

11 I say then they did not stumble so as to fall did they May it never be But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles to make them jealous 12 Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles how much more will their fulfillment be 15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Hmmmm ldquoLife from the deadrdquo might refer

to the resurrection of the dead which happens at the Return of Jesus Christ in fact what else

could this phrase mean

S-o-o-o-o sequence-time again When the Jews

accept Jesus as their Messiah at the end of the

age then He returns and the dead in Christ

rise

You better look for more corroboration on this

one Lenny

Time of the Gentiles finishes

These NT references suggest this sequence

A Deliverer comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

OK dad yoursquod better corroborate that sequence or nobodyrsquos

going to buy it

No sweat Mike Zechariahrsquos got me covered Just keep

smiling

III-A HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

Victory and Redemption in Zechariah 12

2 ldquoBehold I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around and when the siege is against Jerusalem it will also be against Judah 3 It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples all who lift it will be severely injured And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against itrdquo

Chapter 12 gives us an overview of Israel at the end

Jerusalem goes on a rampage

At the end all the world attacks Israel (See Revelation 1614)

Jerusalem is under siege-Judah too

The lsquonationsrsquo get a beat-down

6 ldquoIn that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples while the inhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem 7 The Lord also will save the tents of Judah first so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah 8 In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David and the house of David will be like God like the angel of the Lord before them 9 And in that day I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalemrdquo

126-9 reiterates with details

Judah has a specific military role

Fascinating reference to the lsquohouse of Davidrsquo WUWT

God still deals with tribal grievances and jealousies in Israel

Jerusalem defended secondly

10 ldquoI will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplication so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only son and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn

1210 spotlights the Spiritrsquos role

I First God pours out His Spirit onto Jerusalem and Israel SO THAT

II Secondly Jews will LOOK ON JESUS and mourn and weep over their rejection of their Messiah

First off ldquoSO THATrdquo establishes a cause-and-effect relationship between the versersquos two statements

Godrsquos Spirit must soften hardened Jewish hearts just as He must soften hardened Gentile hearts if we are to be savedHis role is central to everything that happens here

III-B HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

The fountain for impurity in Zechariah 13

1 In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for impurity2 It will come about in that dayrdquo declares the Lord of hosts ldquothat I will cut off the names of the idols from the land and they will no longer be remembered and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the landrdquo

Chapter 131-2 God explains his intention to spiritually cleanse all Israel

Godrsquos grace as a cleansing fountain for an entire nation

The cleansing fountain reaches to families to cities to all the land

God fulfills His intentions for Israel in the 70th Week

An end to sinAtonement for iniquityBring in everlasting righteousness

Verses 3-6 give examples of how this cleansing will affect false prophets and their families

7 ldquoAwake O sword against My Shepherd and against the man My Associaterdquo declares the Lord of hosts

Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered and I will turn My hand against the little onesrdquo

137 anchors us at The Cross

The reference here is to Christ Shepherd of the Jewish flock One with God the Father

The reference here is to the crucifixion of Jesus and subsequent dispersal of the Jews at 70 AD

Zechariah begins here a 3-verse poetic cry with Christrsquos death and the Jewsrsquo

dispersal in 70 AD and then he leaps forward in time to the end of The 70th

Week This historical sweep leaps over a 19 century hiatus in which Israel is

absent from the land I think Revelation 12 presents us with the same pattern

From Christrsquos birth and then over 19 centuries to the Tribulation Itrsquos as if God

wants us to remember the connection the 70th Weekrsquos conclusion makes with all

of redemptive history

8 ldquoIt will come about in all the landrdquo declares the Lord ldquoThat two parts in it will be cut off and perish but the third will be left in it

9 And I will bring the third part through the fire refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested They will call on My name and I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplelsquo and they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

138+9 leap to The End

This incredible slaughter sets the measure of Jewish despair

Here God states His purpose spiritual refinement spiritual brokeness and a national acceptance of Jesus as Messiahndashat last

We see here a measure of national Jewish stubbornness and hardness of heart

Not only must they exhaust all alternatives to Jesus-as-Messiah they must now

resist to the point that their very existence as a people seems seriously in doubt

ldquoHow often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers

her chicks under her wings and you were unwilling rdquo Jesus in Matthew 23

Their unwilling hearts must be broken to make their redemption possible

III-C HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVEDZechariah 14rsquos amazing rescue

1 ldquoBehold a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you

2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city will be captured the houses plundered the women ravished and half of the city exiled but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city

3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when He fights on a day of battlerdquo

141-3 Opens the Newscast

Treat this verse as a FOX NEWS ALERT announcement if you will

4 The Lord goes forth and fights as when He fights on a day of battle Wow

THE LEAD Four steps that explain HOW this spoil comes to get recaptured and divided

1 All nations gathered to attack

2 Jerusalem captured3 Half city exiled half

hold on and then

Notice the sequence

4 ldquoIn that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which is in front of Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel yes you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Himrdquo

144-5 Camera Goes Into the Field

This is first of several lsquofield reportsrsquo which flesh out the segmentrsquos headline and lead

This is huge What a glorious manifestation Here the city is cleared to make way for the engagement of the enemy

Note the word lsquoTHENrsquo it has its parallel at the start of verse 3 above In both cases events occur that set the stage for the Lordrsquos actual engagement with the enemy

Notice another sequence

6 In that day there will be no light the luminaries will dwindle 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night but it will come about that at evening time there will be light

8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea it will be in summer as well as in winter

146-8 Camera Stays In the Field

This verse removes any chance that this

section has historical fulfillment

How frequently does Zechariah identify this climax of the age with this phrase lsquoin that dayrsquo How often does Isaiah use this same phrase to tag the moment of The End With verse 8 the Spirit

begins a lengthy section in which the aftermath of The Lordrsquos Return features prominently

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

This phrase appears first in Zechariah 1210 with reference to Jews in Jerusalem

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

This phrase appears first in Zechariah 1210 with reference to Jews in Jerusalem

These Jews must therefore have previously called out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lordrdquo to be able to see Him

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

This phrase appears first in Zechariah 1210 with reference to Jews in Jerusalem

These Jews must therefore have previously called out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lordrdquo to be able to see Him

How did this call come about

Paul offers support

25 For I do not want you brethren to be uninformed of this mysterymdashso that you will not be wise in your own estimationmdashthat a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in 26 and so all Israel will be saved just as it is written ldquoTHE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOBrdquoRomans 1125+

Apparently God intervenes on the Jewsrsquo behalves

removing the veil of lsquoungodlinessrsquo from them as a step in their national redemption

Sequence Time we deal once again with the word

UNTIL Jewish national salvation happens

WHENAFTER the lsquofullness of the Gentileslsquo has

come inndashat the end of the age

Notice how ldquoThe Delivererrdquo will remove ungodliness from

Jacobndashtherersquos a spiritual revival and cleansing involved

Paul has more to say

11 I say then they did not stumble so as to fall did they May it never be But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles to make them jealous 12 Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles how much more will their fulfillment be 15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Hmmmm ldquoLife from the deadrdquo might refer

to the resurrection of the dead which happens at the Return of Jesus Christ in fact what else

could this phrase mean

S-o-o-o-o sequence-time again When the Jews

accept Jesus as their Messiah at the end of the

age then He returns and the dead in Christ

rise

You better look for more corroboration on this

one Lenny

Time of the Gentiles finishes

These NT references suggest this sequence

A Deliverer comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

OK dad yoursquod better corroborate that sequence or nobodyrsquos

going to buy it

No sweat Mike Zechariahrsquos got me covered Just keep

smiling

III-A HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

Victory and Redemption in Zechariah 12

2 ldquoBehold I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around and when the siege is against Jerusalem it will also be against Judah 3 It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples all who lift it will be severely injured And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against itrdquo

Chapter 12 gives us an overview of Israel at the end

Jerusalem goes on a rampage

At the end all the world attacks Israel (See Revelation 1614)

Jerusalem is under siege-Judah too

The lsquonationsrsquo get a beat-down

6 ldquoIn that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples while the inhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem 7 The Lord also will save the tents of Judah first so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah 8 In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David and the house of David will be like God like the angel of the Lord before them 9 And in that day I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalemrdquo

126-9 reiterates with details

Judah has a specific military role

Fascinating reference to the lsquohouse of Davidrsquo WUWT

God still deals with tribal grievances and jealousies in Israel

Jerusalem defended secondly

10 ldquoI will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplication so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only son and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn

1210 spotlights the Spiritrsquos role

I First God pours out His Spirit onto Jerusalem and Israel SO THAT

II Secondly Jews will LOOK ON JESUS and mourn and weep over their rejection of their Messiah

First off ldquoSO THATrdquo establishes a cause-and-effect relationship between the versersquos two statements

Godrsquos Spirit must soften hardened Jewish hearts just as He must soften hardened Gentile hearts if we are to be savedHis role is central to everything that happens here

III-B HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

The fountain for impurity in Zechariah 13

1 In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for impurity2 It will come about in that dayrdquo declares the Lord of hosts ldquothat I will cut off the names of the idols from the land and they will no longer be remembered and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the landrdquo

Chapter 131-2 God explains his intention to spiritually cleanse all Israel

Godrsquos grace as a cleansing fountain for an entire nation

The cleansing fountain reaches to families to cities to all the land

God fulfills His intentions for Israel in the 70th Week

An end to sinAtonement for iniquityBring in everlasting righteousness

Verses 3-6 give examples of how this cleansing will affect false prophets and their families

7 ldquoAwake O sword against My Shepherd and against the man My Associaterdquo declares the Lord of hosts

Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered and I will turn My hand against the little onesrdquo

137 anchors us at The Cross

The reference here is to Christ Shepherd of the Jewish flock One with God the Father

The reference here is to the crucifixion of Jesus and subsequent dispersal of the Jews at 70 AD

Zechariah begins here a 3-verse poetic cry with Christrsquos death and the Jewsrsquo

dispersal in 70 AD and then he leaps forward in time to the end of The 70th

Week This historical sweep leaps over a 19 century hiatus in which Israel is

absent from the land I think Revelation 12 presents us with the same pattern

From Christrsquos birth and then over 19 centuries to the Tribulation Itrsquos as if God

wants us to remember the connection the 70th Weekrsquos conclusion makes with all

of redemptive history

8 ldquoIt will come about in all the landrdquo declares the Lord ldquoThat two parts in it will be cut off and perish but the third will be left in it

9 And I will bring the third part through the fire refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested They will call on My name and I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplelsquo and they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

138+9 leap to The End

This incredible slaughter sets the measure of Jewish despair

Here God states His purpose spiritual refinement spiritual brokeness and a national acceptance of Jesus as Messiahndashat last

We see here a measure of national Jewish stubbornness and hardness of heart

Not only must they exhaust all alternatives to Jesus-as-Messiah they must now

resist to the point that their very existence as a people seems seriously in doubt

ldquoHow often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers

her chicks under her wings and you were unwilling rdquo Jesus in Matthew 23

Their unwilling hearts must be broken to make their redemption possible

III-C HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVEDZechariah 14rsquos amazing rescue

1 ldquoBehold a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you

2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city will be captured the houses plundered the women ravished and half of the city exiled but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city

3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when He fights on a day of battlerdquo

141-3 Opens the Newscast

Treat this verse as a FOX NEWS ALERT announcement if you will

4 The Lord goes forth and fights as when He fights on a day of battle Wow

THE LEAD Four steps that explain HOW this spoil comes to get recaptured and divided

1 All nations gathered to attack

2 Jerusalem captured3 Half city exiled half

hold on and then

Notice the sequence

4 ldquoIn that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which is in front of Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel yes you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Himrdquo

144-5 Camera Goes Into the Field

This is first of several lsquofield reportsrsquo which flesh out the segmentrsquos headline and lead

This is huge What a glorious manifestation Here the city is cleared to make way for the engagement of the enemy

Note the word lsquoTHENrsquo it has its parallel at the start of verse 3 above In both cases events occur that set the stage for the Lordrsquos actual engagement with the enemy

Notice another sequence

6 In that day there will be no light the luminaries will dwindle 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night but it will come about that at evening time there will be light

8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea it will be in summer as well as in winter

146-8 Camera Stays In the Field

This verse removes any chance that this

section has historical fulfillment

How frequently does Zechariah identify this climax of the age with this phrase lsquoin that dayrsquo How often does Isaiah use this same phrase to tag the moment of The End With verse 8 the Spirit

begins a lengthy section in which the aftermath of The Lordrsquos Return features prominently

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

This phrase appears first in Zechariah 1210 with reference to Jews in Jerusalem

These Jews must therefore have previously called out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lordrdquo to be able to see Him

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

This phrase appears first in Zechariah 1210 with reference to Jews in Jerusalem

These Jews must therefore have previously called out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lordrdquo to be able to see Him

How did this call come about

Paul offers support

25 For I do not want you brethren to be uninformed of this mysterymdashso that you will not be wise in your own estimationmdashthat a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in 26 and so all Israel will be saved just as it is written ldquoTHE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOBrdquoRomans 1125+

Apparently God intervenes on the Jewsrsquo behalves

removing the veil of lsquoungodlinessrsquo from them as a step in their national redemption

Sequence Time we deal once again with the word

UNTIL Jewish national salvation happens

WHENAFTER the lsquofullness of the Gentileslsquo has

come inndashat the end of the age

Notice how ldquoThe Delivererrdquo will remove ungodliness from

Jacobndashtherersquos a spiritual revival and cleansing involved

Paul has more to say

11 I say then they did not stumble so as to fall did they May it never be But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles to make them jealous 12 Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles how much more will their fulfillment be 15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Hmmmm ldquoLife from the deadrdquo might refer

to the resurrection of the dead which happens at the Return of Jesus Christ in fact what else

could this phrase mean

S-o-o-o-o sequence-time again When the Jews

accept Jesus as their Messiah at the end of the

age then He returns and the dead in Christ

rise

You better look for more corroboration on this

one Lenny

Time of the Gentiles finishes

These NT references suggest this sequence

A Deliverer comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

OK dad yoursquod better corroborate that sequence or nobodyrsquos

going to buy it

No sweat Mike Zechariahrsquos got me covered Just keep

smiling

III-A HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

Victory and Redemption in Zechariah 12

2 ldquoBehold I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around and when the siege is against Jerusalem it will also be against Judah 3 It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples all who lift it will be severely injured And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against itrdquo

Chapter 12 gives us an overview of Israel at the end

Jerusalem goes on a rampage

At the end all the world attacks Israel (See Revelation 1614)

Jerusalem is under siege-Judah too

The lsquonationsrsquo get a beat-down

6 ldquoIn that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples while the inhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem 7 The Lord also will save the tents of Judah first so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah 8 In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David and the house of David will be like God like the angel of the Lord before them 9 And in that day I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalemrdquo

126-9 reiterates with details

Judah has a specific military role

Fascinating reference to the lsquohouse of Davidrsquo WUWT

God still deals with tribal grievances and jealousies in Israel

Jerusalem defended secondly

10 ldquoI will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplication so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only son and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn

1210 spotlights the Spiritrsquos role

I First God pours out His Spirit onto Jerusalem and Israel SO THAT

II Secondly Jews will LOOK ON JESUS and mourn and weep over their rejection of their Messiah

First off ldquoSO THATrdquo establishes a cause-and-effect relationship between the versersquos two statements

Godrsquos Spirit must soften hardened Jewish hearts just as He must soften hardened Gentile hearts if we are to be savedHis role is central to everything that happens here

III-B HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

The fountain for impurity in Zechariah 13

1 In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for impurity2 It will come about in that dayrdquo declares the Lord of hosts ldquothat I will cut off the names of the idols from the land and they will no longer be remembered and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the landrdquo

Chapter 131-2 God explains his intention to spiritually cleanse all Israel

Godrsquos grace as a cleansing fountain for an entire nation

The cleansing fountain reaches to families to cities to all the land

God fulfills His intentions for Israel in the 70th Week

An end to sinAtonement for iniquityBring in everlasting righteousness

Verses 3-6 give examples of how this cleansing will affect false prophets and their families

7 ldquoAwake O sword against My Shepherd and against the man My Associaterdquo declares the Lord of hosts

Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered and I will turn My hand against the little onesrdquo

137 anchors us at The Cross

The reference here is to Christ Shepherd of the Jewish flock One with God the Father

The reference here is to the crucifixion of Jesus and subsequent dispersal of the Jews at 70 AD

Zechariah begins here a 3-verse poetic cry with Christrsquos death and the Jewsrsquo

dispersal in 70 AD and then he leaps forward in time to the end of The 70th

Week This historical sweep leaps over a 19 century hiatus in which Israel is

absent from the land I think Revelation 12 presents us with the same pattern

From Christrsquos birth and then over 19 centuries to the Tribulation Itrsquos as if God

wants us to remember the connection the 70th Weekrsquos conclusion makes with all

of redemptive history

8 ldquoIt will come about in all the landrdquo declares the Lord ldquoThat two parts in it will be cut off and perish but the third will be left in it

9 And I will bring the third part through the fire refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested They will call on My name and I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplelsquo and they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

138+9 leap to The End

This incredible slaughter sets the measure of Jewish despair

Here God states His purpose spiritual refinement spiritual brokeness and a national acceptance of Jesus as Messiahndashat last

We see here a measure of national Jewish stubbornness and hardness of heart

Not only must they exhaust all alternatives to Jesus-as-Messiah they must now

resist to the point that their very existence as a people seems seriously in doubt

ldquoHow often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers

her chicks under her wings and you were unwilling rdquo Jesus in Matthew 23

Their unwilling hearts must be broken to make their redemption possible

III-C HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVEDZechariah 14rsquos amazing rescue

1 ldquoBehold a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you

2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city will be captured the houses plundered the women ravished and half of the city exiled but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city

3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when He fights on a day of battlerdquo

141-3 Opens the Newscast

Treat this verse as a FOX NEWS ALERT announcement if you will

4 The Lord goes forth and fights as when He fights on a day of battle Wow

THE LEAD Four steps that explain HOW this spoil comes to get recaptured and divided

1 All nations gathered to attack

2 Jerusalem captured3 Half city exiled half

hold on and then

Notice the sequence

4 ldquoIn that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which is in front of Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel yes you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Himrdquo

144-5 Camera Goes Into the Field

This is first of several lsquofield reportsrsquo which flesh out the segmentrsquos headline and lead

This is huge What a glorious manifestation Here the city is cleared to make way for the engagement of the enemy

Note the word lsquoTHENrsquo it has its parallel at the start of verse 3 above In both cases events occur that set the stage for the Lordrsquos actual engagement with the enemy

Notice another sequence

6 In that day there will be no light the luminaries will dwindle 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night but it will come about that at evening time there will be light

8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea it will be in summer as well as in winter

146-8 Camera Stays In the Field

This verse removes any chance that this

section has historical fulfillment

How frequently does Zechariah identify this climax of the age with this phrase lsquoin that dayrsquo How often does Isaiah use this same phrase to tag the moment of The End With verse 8 the Spirit

begins a lengthy section in which the aftermath of The Lordrsquos Return features prominently

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

BEHOLD HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him So it is to be Amen(Revelation 17)

We see Jesus our Messiah

Revelation 17 tells us that ldquothose who pierced Himrdquo will see Him on His return

This phrase appears first in Zechariah 1210 with reference to Jews in Jerusalem

These Jews must therefore have previously called out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lordrdquo to be able to see Him

How did this call come about

Paul offers support

25 For I do not want you brethren to be uninformed of this mysterymdashso that you will not be wise in your own estimationmdashthat a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in 26 and so all Israel will be saved just as it is written ldquoTHE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOBrdquoRomans 1125+

Apparently God intervenes on the Jewsrsquo behalves

removing the veil of lsquoungodlinessrsquo from them as a step in their national redemption

Sequence Time we deal once again with the word

UNTIL Jewish national salvation happens

WHENAFTER the lsquofullness of the Gentileslsquo has

come inndashat the end of the age

Notice how ldquoThe Delivererrdquo will remove ungodliness from

Jacobndashtherersquos a spiritual revival and cleansing involved

Paul has more to say

11 I say then they did not stumble so as to fall did they May it never be But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles to make them jealous 12 Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles how much more will their fulfillment be 15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Hmmmm ldquoLife from the deadrdquo might refer

to the resurrection of the dead which happens at the Return of Jesus Christ in fact what else

could this phrase mean

S-o-o-o-o sequence-time again When the Jews

accept Jesus as their Messiah at the end of the

age then He returns and the dead in Christ

rise

You better look for more corroboration on this

one Lenny

Time of the Gentiles finishes

These NT references suggest this sequence

A Deliverer comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

OK dad yoursquod better corroborate that sequence or nobodyrsquos

going to buy it

No sweat Mike Zechariahrsquos got me covered Just keep

smiling

III-A HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

Victory and Redemption in Zechariah 12

2 ldquoBehold I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around and when the siege is against Jerusalem it will also be against Judah 3 It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples all who lift it will be severely injured And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against itrdquo

Chapter 12 gives us an overview of Israel at the end

Jerusalem goes on a rampage

At the end all the world attacks Israel (See Revelation 1614)

Jerusalem is under siege-Judah too

The lsquonationsrsquo get a beat-down

6 ldquoIn that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples while the inhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem 7 The Lord also will save the tents of Judah first so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah 8 In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David and the house of David will be like God like the angel of the Lord before them 9 And in that day I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalemrdquo

126-9 reiterates with details

Judah has a specific military role

Fascinating reference to the lsquohouse of Davidrsquo WUWT

God still deals with tribal grievances and jealousies in Israel

Jerusalem defended secondly

10 ldquoI will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplication so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only son and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn

1210 spotlights the Spiritrsquos role

I First God pours out His Spirit onto Jerusalem and Israel SO THAT

II Secondly Jews will LOOK ON JESUS and mourn and weep over their rejection of their Messiah

First off ldquoSO THATrdquo establishes a cause-and-effect relationship between the versersquos two statements

Godrsquos Spirit must soften hardened Jewish hearts just as He must soften hardened Gentile hearts if we are to be savedHis role is central to everything that happens here

III-B HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

The fountain for impurity in Zechariah 13

1 In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for impurity2 It will come about in that dayrdquo declares the Lord of hosts ldquothat I will cut off the names of the idols from the land and they will no longer be remembered and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the landrdquo

Chapter 131-2 God explains his intention to spiritually cleanse all Israel

Godrsquos grace as a cleansing fountain for an entire nation

The cleansing fountain reaches to families to cities to all the land

God fulfills His intentions for Israel in the 70th Week

An end to sinAtonement for iniquityBring in everlasting righteousness

Verses 3-6 give examples of how this cleansing will affect false prophets and their families

7 ldquoAwake O sword against My Shepherd and against the man My Associaterdquo declares the Lord of hosts

Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered and I will turn My hand against the little onesrdquo

137 anchors us at The Cross

The reference here is to Christ Shepherd of the Jewish flock One with God the Father

The reference here is to the crucifixion of Jesus and subsequent dispersal of the Jews at 70 AD

Zechariah begins here a 3-verse poetic cry with Christrsquos death and the Jewsrsquo

dispersal in 70 AD and then he leaps forward in time to the end of The 70th

Week This historical sweep leaps over a 19 century hiatus in which Israel is

absent from the land I think Revelation 12 presents us with the same pattern

From Christrsquos birth and then over 19 centuries to the Tribulation Itrsquos as if God

wants us to remember the connection the 70th Weekrsquos conclusion makes with all

of redemptive history

8 ldquoIt will come about in all the landrdquo declares the Lord ldquoThat two parts in it will be cut off and perish but the third will be left in it

9 And I will bring the third part through the fire refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested They will call on My name and I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplelsquo and they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

138+9 leap to The End

This incredible slaughter sets the measure of Jewish despair

Here God states His purpose spiritual refinement spiritual brokeness and a national acceptance of Jesus as Messiahndashat last

We see here a measure of national Jewish stubbornness and hardness of heart

Not only must they exhaust all alternatives to Jesus-as-Messiah they must now

resist to the point that their very existence as a people seems seriously in doubt

ldquoHow often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers

her chicks under her wings and you were unwilling rdquo Jesus in Matthew 23

Their unwilling hearts must be broken to make their redemption possible

III-C HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVEDZechariah 14rsquos amazing rescue

1 ldquoBehold a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you

2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city will be captured the houses plundered the women ravished and half of the city exiled but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city

3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when He fights on a day of battlerdquo

141-3 Opens the Newscast

Treat this verse as a FOX NEWS ALERT announcement if you will

4 The Lord goes forth and fights as when He fights on a day of battle Wow

THE LEAD Four steps that explain HOW this spoil comes to get recaptured and divided

1 All nations gathered to attack

2 Jerusalem captured3 Half city exiled half

hold on and then

Notice the sequence

4 ldquoIn that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which is in front of Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel yes you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Himrdquo

144-5 Camera Goes Into the Field

This is first of several lsquofield reportsrsquo which flesh out the segmentrsquos headline and lead

This is huge What a glorious manifestation Here the city is cleared to make way for the engagement of the enemy

Note the word lsquoTHENrsquo it has its parallel at the start of verse 3 above In both cases events occur that set the stage for the Lordrsquos actual engagement with the enemy

Notice another sequence

6 In that day there will be no light the luminaries will dwindle 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night but it will come about that at evening time there will be light

8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea it will be in summer as well as in winter

146-8 Camera Stays In the Field

This verse removes any chance that this

section has historical fulfillment

How frequently does Zechariah identify this climax of the age with this phrase lsquoin that dayrsquo How often does Isaiah use this same phrase to tag the moment of The End With verse 8 the Spirit

begins a lengthy section in which the aftermath of The Lordrsquos Return features prominently

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

Paul offers support

25 For I do not want you brethren to be uninformed of this mysterymdashso that you will not be wise in your own estimationmdashthat a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in 26 and so all Israel will be saved just as it is written ldquoTHE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOBrdquoRomans 1125+

Apparently God intervenes on the Jewsrsquo behalves

removing the veil of lsquoungodlinessrsquo from them as a step in their national redemption

Sequence Time we deal once again with the word

UNTIL Jewish national salvation happens

WHENAFTER the lsquofullness of the Gentileslsquo has

come inndashat the end of the age

Notice how ldquoThe Delivererrdquo will remove ungodliness from

Jacobndashtherersquos a spiritual revival and cleansing involved

Paul has more to say

11 I say then they did not stumble so as to fall did they May it never be But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles to make them jealous 12 Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles how much more will their fulfillment be 15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Hmmmm ldquoLife from the deadrdquo might refer

to the resurrection of the dead which happens at the Return of Jesus Christ in fact what else

could this phrase mean

S-o-o-o-o sequence-time again When the Jews

accept Jesus as their Messiah at the end of the

age then He returns and the dead in Christ

rise

You better look for more corroboration on this

one Lenny

Time of the Gentiles finishes

These NT references suggest this sequence

A Deliverer comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

OK dad yoursquod better corroborate that sequence or nobodyrsquos

going to buy it

No sweat Mike Zechariahrsquos got me covered Just keep

smiling

III-A HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

Victory and Redemption in Zechariah 12

2 ldquoBehold I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around and when the siege is against Jerusalem it will also be against Judah 3 It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples all who lift it will be severely injured And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against itrdquo

Chapter 12 gives us an overview of Israel at the end

Jerusalem goes on a rampage

At the end all the world attacks Israel (See Revelation 1614)

Jerusalem is under siege-Judah too

The lsquonationsrsquo get a beat-down

6 ldquoIn that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples while the inhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem 7 The Lord also will save the tents of Judah first so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah 8 In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David and the house of David will be like God like the angel of the Lord before them 9 And in that day I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalemrdquo

126-9 reiterates with details

Judah has a specific military role

Fascinating reference to the lsquohouse of Davidrsquo WUWT

God still deals with tribal grievances and jealousies in Israel

Jerusalem defended secondly

10 ldquoI will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplication so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only son and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn

1210 spotlights the Spiritrsquos role

I First God pours out His Spirit onto Jerusalem and Israel SO THAT

II Secondly Jews will LOOK ON JESUS and mourn and weep over their rejection of their Messiah

First off ldquoSO THATrdquo establishes a cause-and-effect relationship between the versersquos two statements

Godrsquos Spirit must soften hardened Jewish hearts just as He must soften hardened Gentile hearts if we are to be savedHis role is central to everything that happens here

III-B HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

The fountain for impurity in Zechariah 13

1 In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for impurity2 It will come about in that dayrdquo declares the Lord of hosts ldquothat I will cut off the names of the idols from the land and they will no longer be remembered and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the landrdquo

Chapter 131-2 God explains his intention to spiritually cleanse all Israel

Godrsquos grace as a cleansing fountain for an entire nation

The cleansing fountain reaches to families to cities to all the land

God fulfills His intentions for Israel in the 70th Week

An end to sinAtonement for iniquityBring in everlasting righteousness

Verses 3-6 give examples of how this cleansing will affect false prophets and their families

7 ldquoAwake O sword against My Shepherd and against the man My Associaterdquo declares the Lord of hosts

Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered and I will turn My hand against the little onesrdquo

137 anchors us at The Cross

The reference here is to Christ Shepherd of the Jewish flock One with God the Father

The reference here is to the crucifixion of Jesus and subsequent dispersal of the Jews at 70 AD

Zechariah begins here a 3-verse poetic cry with Christrsquos death and the Jewsrsquo

dispersal in 70 AD and then he leaps forward in time to the end of The 70th

Week This historical sweep leaps over a 19 century hiatus in which Israel is

absent from the land I think Revelation 12 presents us with the same pattern

From Christrsquos birth and then over 19 centuries to the Tribulation Itrsquos as if God

wants us to remember the connection the 70th Weekrsquos conclusion makes with all

of redemptive history

8 ldquoIt will come about in all the landrdquo declares the Lord ldquoThat two parts in it will be cut off and perish but the third will be left in it

9 And I will bring the third part through the fire refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested They will call on My name and I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplelsquo and they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

138+9 leap to The End

This incredible slaughter sets the measure of Jewish despair

Here God states His purpose spiritual refinement spiritual brokeness and a national acceptance of Jesus as Messiahndashat last

We see here a measure of national Jewish stubbornness and hardness of heart

Not only must they exhaust all alternatives to Jesus-as-Messiah they must now

resist to the point that their very existence as a people seems seriously in doubt

ldquoHow often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers

her chicks under her wings and you were unwilling rdquo Jesus in Matthew 23

Their unwilling hearts must be broken to make their redemption possible

III-C HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVEDZechariah 14rsquos amazing rescue

1 ldquoBehold a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you

2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city will be captured the houses plundered the women ravished and half of the city exiled but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city

3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when He fights on a day of battlerdquo

141-3 Opens the Newscast

Treat this verse as a FOX NEWS ALERT announcement if you will

4 The Lord goes forth and fights as when He fights on a day of battle Wow

THE LEAD Four steps that explain HOW this spoil comes to get recaptured and divided

1 All nations gathered to attack

2 Jerusalem captured3 Half city exiled half

hold on and then

Notice the sequence

4 ldquoIn that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which is in front of Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel yes you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Himrdquo

144-5 Camera Goes Into the Field

This is first of several lsquofield reportsrsquo which flesh out the segmentrsquos headline and lead

This is huge What a glorious manifestation Here the city is cleared to make way for the engagement of the enemy

Note the word lsquoTHENrsquo it has its parallel at the start of verse 3 above In both cases events occur that set the stage for the Lordrsquos actual engagement with the enemy

Notice another sequence

6 In that day there will be no light the luminaries will dwindle 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night but it will come about that at evening time there will be light

8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea it will be in summer as well as in winter

146-8 Camera Stays In the Field

This verse removes any chance that this

section has historical fulfillment

How frequently does Zechariah identify this climax of the age with this phrase lsquoin that dayrsquo How often does Isaiah use this same phrase to tag the moment of The End With verse 8 the Spirit

begins a lengthy section in which the aftermath of The Lordrsquos Return features prominently

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

Paul has more to say

11 I say then they did not stumble so as to fall did they May it never be But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles to make them jealous 12 Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles how much more will their fulfillment be 15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Hmmmm ldquoLife from the deadrdquo might refer

to the resurrection of the dead which happens at the Return of Jesus Christ in fact what else

could this phrase mean

S-o-o-o-o sequence-time again When the Jews

accept Jesus as their Messiah at the end of the

age then He returns and the dead in Christ

rise

You better look for more corroboration on this

one Lenny

Time of the Gentiles finishes

These NT references suggest this sequence

A Deliverer comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

OK dad yoursquod better corroborate that sequence or nobodyrsquos

going to buy it

No sweat Mike Zechariahrsquos got me covered Just keep

smiling

III-A HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

Victory and Redemption in Zechariah 12

2 ldquoBehold I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around and when the siege is against Jerusalem it will also be against Judah 3 It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples all who lift it will be severely injured And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against itrdquo

Chapter 12 gives us an overview of Israel at the end

Jerusalem goes on a rampage

At the end all the world attacks Israel (See Revelation 1614)

Jerusalem is under siege-Judah too

The lsquonationsrsquo get a beat-down

6 ldquoIn that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples while the inhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem 7 The Lord also will save the tents of Judah first so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah 8 In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David and the house of David will be like God like the angel of the Lord before them 9 And in that day I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalemrdquo

126-9 reiterates with details

Judah has a specific military role

Fascinating reference to the lsquohouse of Davidrsquo WUWT

God still deals with tribal grievances and jealousies in Israel

Jerusalem defended secondly

10 ldquoI will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplication so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only son and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn

1210 spotlights the Spiritrsquos role

I First God pours out His Spirit onto Jerusalem and Israel SO THAT

II Secondly Jews will LOOK ON JESUS and mourn and weep over their rejection of their Messiah

First off ldquoSO THATrdquo establishes a cause-and-effect relationship between the versersquos two statements

Godrsquos Spirit must soften hardened Jewish hearts just as He must soften hardened Gentile hearts if we are to be savedHis role is central to everything that happens here

III-B HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

The fountain for impurity in Zechariah 13

1 In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for impurity2 It will come about in that dayrdquo declares the Lord of hosts ldquothat I will cut off the names of the idols from the land and they will no longer be remembered and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the landrdquo

Chapter 131-2 God explains his intention to spiritually cleanse all Israel

Godrsquos grace as a cleansing fountain for an entire nation

The cleansing fountain reaches to families to cities to all the land

God fulfills His intentions for Israel in the 70th Week

An end to sinAtonement for iniquityBring in everlasting righteousness

Verses 3-6 give examples of how this cleansing will affect false prophets and their families

7 ldquoAwake O sword against My Shepherd and against the man My Associaterdquo declares the Lord of hosts

Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered and I will turn My hand against the little onesrdquo

137 anchors us at The Cross

The reference here is to Christ Shepherd of the Jewish flock One with God the Father

The reference here is to the crucifixion of Jesus and subsequent dispersal of the Jews at 70 AD

Zechariah begins here a 3-verse poetic cry with Christrsquos death and the Jewsrsquo

dispersal in 70 AD and then he leaps forward in time to the end of The 70th

Week This historical sweep leaps over a 19 century hiatus in which Israel is

absent from the land I think Revelation 12 presents us with the same pattern

From Christrsquos birth and then over 19 centuries to the Tribulation Itrsquos as if God

wants us to remember the connection the 70th Weekrsquos conclusion makes with all

of redemptive history

8 ldquoIt will come about in all the landrdquo declares the Lord ldquoThat two parts in it will be cut off and perish but the third will be left in it

9 And I will bring the third part through the fire refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested They will call on My name and I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplelsquo and they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

138+9 leap to The End

This incredible slaughter sets the measure of Jewish despair

Here God states His purpose spiritual refinement spiritual brokeness and a national acceptance of Jesus as Messiahndashat last

We see here a measure of national Jewish stubbornness and hardness of heart

Not only must they exhaust all alternatives to Jesus-as-Messiah they must now

resist to the point that their very existence as a people seems seriously in doubt

ldquoHow often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers

her chicks under her wings and you were unwilling rdquo Jesus in Matthew 23

Their unwilling hearts must be broken to make their redemption possible

III-C HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVEDZechariah 14rsquos amazing rescue

1 ldquoBehold a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you

2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city will be captured the houses plundered the women ravished and half of the city exiled but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city

3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when He fights on a day of battlerdquo

141-3 Opens the Newscast

Treat this verse as a FOX NEWS ALERT announcement if you will

4 The Lord goes forth and fights as when He fights on a day of battle Wow

THE LEAD Four steps that explain HOW this spoil comes to get recaptured and divided

1 All nations gathered to attack

2 Jerusalem captured3 Half city exiled half

hold on and then

Notice the sequence

4 ldquoIn that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which is in front of Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel yes you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Himrdquo

144-5 Camera Goes Into the Field

This is first of several lsquofield reportsrsquo which flesh out the segmentrsquos headline and lead

This is huge What a glorious manifestation Here the city is cleared to make way for the engagement of the enemy

Note the word lsquoTHENrsquo it has its parallel at the start of verse 3 above In both cases events occur that set the stage for the Lordrsquos actual engagement with the enemy

Notice another sequence

6 In that day there will be no light the luminaries will dwindle 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night but it will come about that at evening time there will be light

8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea it will be in summer as well as in winter

146-8 Camera Stays In the Field

This verse removes any chance that this

section has historical fulfillment

How frequently does Zechariah identify this climax of the age with this phrase lsquoin that dayrsquo How often does Isaiah use this same phrase to tag the moment of The End With verse 8 the Spirit

begins a lengthy section in which the aftermath of The Lordrsquos Return features prominently

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

Time of the Gentiles finishes

These NT references suggest this sequence

A Deliverer comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

OK dad yoursquod better corroborate that sequence or nobodyrsquos

going to buy it

No sweat Mike Zechariahrsquos got me covered Just keep

smiling

III-A HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

Victory and Redemption in Zechariah 12

2 ldquoBehold I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around and when the siege is against Jerusalem it will also be against Judah 3 It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples all who lift it will be severely injured And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against itrdquo

Chapter 12 gives us an overview of Israel at the end

Jerusalem goes on a rampage

At the end all the world attacks Israel (See Revelation 1614)

Jerusalem is under siege-Judah too

The lsquonationsrsquo get a beat-down

6 ldquoIn that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples while the inhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem 7 The Lord also will save the tents of Judah first so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah 8 In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David and the house of David will be like God like the angel of the Lord before them 9 And in that day I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalemrdquo

126-9 reiterates with details

Judah has a specific military role

Fascinating reference to the lsquohouse of Davidrsquo WUWT

God still deals with tribal grievances and jealousies in Israel

Jerusalem defended secondly

10 ldquoI will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplication so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only son and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn

1210 spotlights the Spiritrsquos role

I First God pours out His Spirit onto Jerusalem and Israel SO THAT

II Secondly Jews will LOOK ON JESUS and mourn and weep over their rejection of their Messiah

First off ldquoSO THATrdquo establishes a cause-and-effect relationship between the versersquos two statements

Godrsquos Spirit must soften hardened Jewish hearts just as He must soften hardened Gentile hearts if we are to be savedHis role is central to everything that happens here

III-B HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

The fountain for impurity in Zechariah 13

1 In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for impurity2 It will come about in that dayrdquo declares the Lord of hosts ldquothat I will cut off the names of the idols from the land and they will no longer be remembered and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the landrdquo

Chapter 131-2 God explains his intention to spiritually cleanse all Israel

Godrsquos grace as a cleansing fountain for an entire nation

The cleansing fountain reaches to families to cities to all the land

God fulfills His intentions for Israel in the 70th Week

An end to sinAtonement for iniquityBring in everlasting righteousness

Verses 3-6 give examples of how this cleansing will affect false prophets and their families

7 ldquoAwake O sword against My Shepherd and against the man My Associaterdquo declares the Lord of hosts

Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered and I will turn My hand against the little onesrdquo

137 anchors us at The Cross

The reference here is to Christ Shepherd of the Jewish flock One with God the Father

The reference here is to the crucifixion of Jesus and subsequent dispersal of the Jews at 70 AD

Zechariah begins here a 3-verse poetic cry with Christrsquos death and the Jewsrsquo

dispersal in 70 AD and then he leaps forward in time to the end of The 70th

Week This historical sweep leaps over a 19 century hiatus in which Israel is

absent from the land I think Revelation 12 presents us with the same pattern

From Christrsquos birth and then over 19 centuries to the Tribulation Itrsquos as if God

wants us to remember the connection the 70th Weekrsquos conclusion makes with all

of redemptive history

8 ldquoIt will come about in all the landrdquo declares the Lord ldquoThat two parts in it will be cut off and perish but the third will be left in it

9 And I will bring the third part through the fire refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested They will call on My name and I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplelsquo and they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

138+9 leap to The End

This incredible slaughter sets the measure of Jewish despair

Here God states His purpose spiritual refinement spiritual brokeness and a national acceptance of Jesus as Messiahndashat last

We see here a measure of national Jewish stubbornness and hardness of heart

Not only must they exhaust all alternatives to Jesus-as-Messiah they must now

resist to the point that their very existence as a people seems seriously in doubt

ldquoHow often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers

her chicks under her wings and you were unwilling rdquo Jesus in Matthew 23

Their unwilling hearts must be broken to make their redemption possible

III-C HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVEDZechariah 14rsquos amazing rescue

1 ldquoBehold a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you

2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city will be captured the houses plundered the women ravished and half of the city exiled but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city

3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when He fights on a day of battlerdquo

141-3 Opens the Newscast

Treat this verse as a FOX NEWS ALERT announcement if you will

4 The Lord goes forth and fights as when He fights on a day of battle Wow

THE LEAD Four steps that explain HOW this spoil comes to get recaptured and divided

1 All nations gathered to attack

2 Jerusalem captured3 Half city exiled half

hold on and then

Notice the sequence

4 ldquoIn that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which is in front of Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel yes you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Himrdquo

144-5 Camera Goes Into the Field

This is first of several lsquofield reportsrsquo which flesh out the segmentrsquos headline and lead

This is huge What a glorious manifestation Here the city is cleared to make way for the engagement of the enemy

Note the word lsquoTHENrsquo it has its parallel at the start of verse 3 above In both cases events occur that set the stage for the Lordrsquos actual engagement with the enemy

Notice another sequence

6 In that day there will be no light the luminaries will dwindle 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night but it will come about that at evening time there will be light

8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea it will be in summer as well as in winter

146-8 Camera Stays In the Field

This verse removes any chance that this

section has historical fulfillment

How frequently does Zechariah identify this climax of the age with this phrase lsquoin that dayrsquo How often does Isaiah use this same phrase to tag the moment of The End With verse 8 the Spirit

begins a lengthy section in which the aftermath of The Lordrsquos Return features prominently

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

OK dad yoursquod better corroborate that sequence or nobodyrsquos

going to buy it

No sweat Mike Zechariahrsquos got me covered Just keep

smiling

III-A HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

Victory and Redemption in Zechariah 12

2 ldquoBehold I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around and when the siege is against Jerusalem it will also be against Judah 3 It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples all who lift it will be severely injured And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against itrdquo

Chapter 12 gives us an overview of Israel at the end

Jerusalem goes on a rampage

At the end all the world attacks Israel (See Revelation 1614)

Jerusalem is under siege-Judah too

The lsquonationsrsquo get a beat-down

6 ldquoIn that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples while the inhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem 7 The Lord also will save the tents of Judah first so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah 8 In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David and the house of David will be like God like the angel of the Lord before them 9 And in that day I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalemrdquo

126-9 reiterates with details

Judah has a specific military role

Fascinating reference to the lsquohouse of Davidrsquo WUWT

God still deals with tribal grievances and jealousies in Israel

Jerusalem defended secondly

10 ldquoI will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplication so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only son and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn

1210 spotlights the Spiritrsquos role

I First God pours out His Spirit onto Jerusalem and Israel SO THAT

II Secondly Jews will LOOK ON JESUS and mourn and weep over their rejection of their Messiah

First off ldquoSO THATrdquo establishes a cause-and-effect relationship between the versersquos two statements

Godrsquos Spirit must soften hardened Jewish hearts just as He must soften hardened Gentile hearts if we are to be savedHis role is central to everything that happens here

III-B HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

The fountain for impurity in Zechariah 13

1 In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for impurity2 It will come about in that dayrdquo declares the Lord of hosts ldquothat I will cut off the names of the idols from the land and they will no longer be remembered and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the landrdquo

Chapter 131-2 God explains his intention to spiritually cleanse all Israel

Godrsquos grace as a cleansing fountain for an entire nation

The cleansing fountain reaches to families to cities to all the land

God fulfills His intentions for Israel in the 70th Week

An end to sinAtonement for iniquityBring in everlasting righteousness

Verses 3-6 give examples of how this cleansing will affect false prophets and their families

7 ldquoAwake O sword against My Shepherd and against the man My Associaterdquo declares the Lord of hosts

Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered and I will turn My hand against the little onesrdquo

137 anchors us at The Cross

The reference here is to Christ Shepherd of the Jewish flock One with God the Father

The reference here is to the crucifixion of Jesus and subsequent dispersal of the Jews at 70 AD

Zechariah begins here a 3-verse poetic cry with Christrsquos death and the Jewsrsquo

dispersal in 70 AD and then he leaps forward in time to the end of The 70th

Week This historical sweep leaps over a 19 century hiatus in which Israel is

absent from the land I think Revelation 12 presents us with the same pattern

From Christrsquos birth and then over 19 centuries to the Tribulation Itrsquos as if God

wants us to remember the connection the 70th Weekrsquos conclusion makes with all

of redemptive history

8 ldquoIt will come about in all the landrdquo declares the Lord ldquoThat two parts in it will be cut off and perish but the third will be left in it

9 And I will bring the third part through the fire refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested They will call on My name and I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplelsquo and they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

138+9 leap to The End

This incredible slaughter sets the measure of Jewish despair

Here God states His purpose spiritual refinement spiritual brokeness and a national acceptance of Jesus as Messiahndashat last

We see here a measure of national Jewish stubbornness and hardness of heart

Not only must they exhaust all alternatives to Jesus-as-Messiah they must now

resist to the point that their very existence as a people seems seriously in doubt

ldquoHow often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers

her chicks under her wings and you were unwilling rdquo Jesus in Matthew 23

Their unwilling hearts must be broken to make their redemption possible

III-C HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVEDZechariah 14rsquos amazing rescue

1 ldquoBehold a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you

2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city will be captured the houses plundered the women ravished and half of the city exiled but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city

3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when He fights on a day of battlerdquo

141-3 Opens the Newscast

Treat this verse as a FOX NEWS ALERT announcement if you will

4 The Lord goes forth and fights as when He fights on a day of battle Wow

THE LEAD Four steps that explain HOW this spoil comes to get recaptured and divided

1 All nations gathered to attack

2 Jerusalem captured3 Half city exiled half

hold on and then

Notice the sequence

4 ldquoIn that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which is in front of Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel yes you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Himrdquo

144-5 Camera Goes Into the Field

This is first of several lsquofield reportsrsquo which flesh out the segmentrsquos headline and lead

This is huge What a glorious manifestation Here the city is cleared to make way for the engagement of the enemy

Note the word lsquoTHENrsquo it has its parallel at the start of verse 3 above In both cases events occur that set the stage for the Lordrsquos actual engagement with the enemy

Notice another sequence

6 In that day there will be no light the luminaries will dwindle 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night but it will come about that at evening time there will be light

8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea it will be in summer as well as in winter

146-8 Camera Stays In the Field

This verse removes any chance that this

section has historical fulfillment

How frequently does Zechariah identify this climax of the age with this phrase lsquoin that dayrsquo How often does Isaiah use this same phrase to tag the moment of The End With verse 8 the Spirit

begins a lengthy section in which the aftermath of The Lordrsquos Return features prominently

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

III-A HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

Victory and Redemption in Zechariah 12

2 ldquoBehold I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around and when the siege is against Jerusalem it will also be against Judah 3 It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples all who lift it will be severely injured And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against itrdquo

Chapter 12 gives us an overview of Israel at the end

Jerusalem goes on a rampage

At the end all the world attacks Israel (See Revelation 1614)

Jerusalem is under siege-Judah too

The lsquonationsrsquo get a beat-down

6 ldquoIn that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples while the inhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem 7 The Lord also will save the tents of Judah first so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah 8 In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David and the house of David will be like God like the angel of the Lord before them 9 And in that day I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalemrdquo

126-9 reiterates with details

Judah has a specific military role

Fascinating reference to the lsquohouse of Davidrsquo WUWT

God still deals with tribal grievances and jealousies in Israel

Jerusalem defended secondly

10 ldquoI will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplication so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only son and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn

1210 spotlights the Spiritrsquos role

I First God pours out His Spirit onto Jerusalem and Israel SO THAT

II Secondly Jews will LOOK ON JESUS and mourn and weep over their rejection of their Messiah

First off ldquoSO THATrdquo establishes a cause-and-effect relationship between the versersquos two statements

Godrsquos Spirit must soften hardened Jewish hearts just as He must soften hardened Gentile hearts if we are to be savedHis role is central to everything that happens here

III-B HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

The fountain for impurity in Zechariah 13

1 In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for impurity2 It will come about in that dayrdquo declares the Lord of hosts ldquothat I will cut off the names of the idols from the land and they will no longer be remembered and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the landrdquo

Chapter 131-2 God explains his intention to spiritually cleanse all Israel

Godrsquos grace as a cleansing fountain for an entire nation

The cleansing fountain reaches to families to cities to all the land

God fulfills His intentions for Israel in the 70th Week

An end to sinAtonement for iniquityBring in everlasting righteousness

Verses 3-6 give examples of how this cleansing will affect false prophets and their families

7 ldquoAwake O sword against My Shepherd and against the man My Associaterdquo declares the Lord of hosts

Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered and I will turn My hand against the little onesrdquo

137 anchors us at The Cross

The reference here is to Christ Shepherd of the Jewish flock One with God the Father

The reference here is to the crucifixion of Jesus and subsequent dispersal of the Jews at 70 AD

Zechariah begins here a 3-verse poetic cry with Christrsquos death and the Jewsrsquo

dispersal in 70 AD and then he leaps forward in time to the end of The 70th

Week This historical sweep leaps over a 19 century hiatus in which Israel is

absent from the land I think Revelation 12 presents us with the same pattern

From Christrsquos birth and then over 19 centuries to the Tribulation Itrsquos as if God

wants us to remember the connection the 70th Weekrsquos conclusion makes with all

of redemptive history

8 ldquoIt will come about in all the landrdquo declares the Lord ldquoThat two parts in it will be cut off and perish but the third will be left in it

9 And I will bring the third part through the fire refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested They will call on My name and I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplelsquo and they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

138+9 leap to The End

This incredible slaughter sets the measure of Jewish despair

Here God states His purpose spiritual refinement spiritual brokeness and a national acceptance of Jesus as Messiahndashat last

We see here a measure of national Jewish stubbornness and hardness of heart

Not only must they exhaust all alternatives to Jesus-as-Messiah they must now

resist to the point that their very existence as a people seems seriously in doubt

ldquoHow often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers

her chicks under her wings and you were unwilling rdquo Jesus in Matthew 23

Their unwilling hearts must be broken to make their redemption possible

III-C HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVEDZechariah 14rsquos amazing rescue

1 ldquoBehold a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you

2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city will be captured the houses plundered the women ravished and half of the city exiled but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city

3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when He fights on a day of battlerdquo

141-3 Opens the Newscast

Treat this verse as a FOX NEWS ALERT announcement if you will

4 The Lord goes forth and fights as when He fights on a day of battle Wow

THE LEAD Four steps that explain HOW this spoil comes to get recaptured and divided

1 All nations gathered to attack

2 Jerusalem captured3 Half city exiled half

hold on and then

Notice the sequence

4 ldquoIn that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which is in front of Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel yes you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Himrdquo

144-5 Camera Goes Into the Field

This is first of several lsquofield reportsrsquo which flesh out the segmentrsquos headline and lead

This is huge What a glorious manifestation Here the city is cleared to make way for the engagement of the enemy

Note the word lsquoTHENrsquo it has its parallel at the start of verse 3 above In both cases events occur that set the stage for the Lordrsquos actual engagement with the enemy

Notice another sequence

6 In that day there will be no light the luminaries will dwindle 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night but it will come about that at evening time there will be light

8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea it will be in summer as well as in winter

146-8 Camera Stays In the Field

This verse removes any chance that this

section has historical fulfillment

How frequently does Zechariah identify this climax of the age with this phrase lsquoin that dayrsquo How often does Isaiah use this same phrase to tag the moment of The End With verse 8 the Spirit

begins a lengthy section in which the aftermath of The Lordrsquos Return features prominently

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

2 ldquoBehold I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around and when the siege is against Jerusalem it will also be against Judah 3 It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples all who lift it will be severely injured And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against itrdquo

Chapter 12 gives us an overview of Israel at the end

Jerusalem goes on a rampage

At the end all the world attacks Israel (See Revelation 1614)

Jerusalem is under siege-Judah too

The lsquonationsrsquo get a beat-down

6 ldquoIn that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples while the inhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem 7 The Lord also will save the tents of Judah first so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah 8 In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David and the house of David will be like God like the angel of the Lord before them 9 And in that day I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalemrdquo

126-9 reiterates with details

Judah has a specific military role

Fascinating reference to the lsquohouse of Davidrsquo WUWT

God still deals with tribal grievances and jealousies in Israel

Jerusalem defended secondly

10 ldquoI will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplication so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only son and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn

1210 spotlights the Spiritrsquos role

I First God pours out His Spirit onto Jerusalem and Israel SO THAT

II Secondly Jews will LOOK ON JESUS and mourn and weep over their rejection of their Messiah

First off ldquoSO THATrdquo establishes a cause-and-effect relationship between the versersquos two statements

Godrsquos Spirit must soften hardened Jewish hearts just as He must soften hardened Gentile hearts if we are to be savedHis role is central to everything that happens here

III-B HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

The fountain for impurity in Zechariah 13

1 In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for impurity2 It will come about in that dayrdquo declares the Lord of hosts ldquothat I will cut off the names of the idols from the land and they will no longer be remembered and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the landrdquo

Chapter 131-2 God explains his intention to spiritually cleanse all Israel

Godrsquos grace as a cleansing fountain for an entire nation

The cleansing fountain reaches to families to cities to all the land

God fulfills His intentions for Israel in the 70th Week

An end to sinAtonement for iniquityBring in everlasting righteousness

Verses 3-6 give examples of how this cleansing will affect false prophets and their families

7 ldquoAwake O sword against My Shepherd and against the man My Associaterdquo declares the Lord of hosts

Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered and I will turn My hand against the little onesrdquo

137 anchors us at The Cross

The reference here is to Christ Shepherd of the Jewish flock One with God the Father

The reference here is to the crucifixion of Jesus and subsequent dispersal of the Jews at 70 AD

Zechariah begins here a 3-verse poetic cry with Christrsquos death and the Jewsrsquo

dispersal in 70 AD and then he leaps forward in time to the end of The 70th

Week This historical sweep leaps over a 19 century hiatus in which Israel is

absent from the land I think Revelation 12 presents us with the same pattern

From Christrsquos birth and then over 19 centuries to the Tribulation Itrsquos as if God

wants us to remember the connection the 70th Weekrsquos conclusion makes with all

of redemptive history

8 ldquoIt will come about in all the landrdquo declares the Lord ldquoThat two parts in it will be cut off and perish but the third will be left in it

9 And I will bring the third part through the fire refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested They will call on My name and I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplelsquo and they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

138+9 leap to The End

This incredible slaughter sets the measure of Jewish despair

Here God states His purpose spiritual refinement spiritual brokeness and a national acceptance of Jesus as Messiahndashat last

We see here a measure of national Jewish stubbornness and hardness of heart

Not only must they exhaust all alternatives to Jesus-as-Messiah they must now

resist to the point that their very existence as a people seems seriously in doubt

ldquoHow often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers

her chicks under her wings and you were unwilling rdquo Jesus in Matthew 23

Their unwilling hearts must be broken to make their redemption possible

III-C HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVEDZechariah 14rsquos amazing rescue

1 ldquoBehold a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you

2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city will be captured the houses plundered the women ravished and half of the city exiled but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city

3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when He fights on a day of battlerdquo

141-3 Opens the Newscast

Treat this verse as a FOX NEWS ALERT announcement if you will

4 The Lord goes forth and fights as when He fights on a day of battle Wow

THE LEAD Four steps that explain HOW this spoil comes to get recaptured and divided

1 All nations gathered to attack

2 Jerusalem captured3 Half city exiled half

hold on and then

Notice the sequence

4 ldquoIn that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which is in front of Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel yes you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Himrdquo

144-5 Camera Goes Into the Field

This is first of several lsquofield reportsrsquo which flesh out the segmentrsquos headline and lead

This is huge What a glorious manifestation Here the city is cleared to make way for the engagement of the enemy

Note the word lsquoTHENrsquo it has its parallel at the start of verse 3 above In both cases events occur that set the stage for the Lordrsquos actual engagement with the enemy

Notice another sequence

6 In that day there will be no light the luminaries will dwindle 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night but it will come about that at evening time there will be light

8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea it will be in summer as well as in winter

146-8 Camera Stays In the Field

This verse removes any chance that this

section has historical fulfillment

How frequently does Zechariah identify this climax of the age with this phrase lsquoin that dayrsquo How often does Isaiah use this same phrase to tag the moment of The End With verse 8 the Spirit

begins a lengthy section in which the aftermath of The Lordrsquos Return features prominently

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

6 ldquoIn that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples while the inhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem 7 The Lord also will save the tents of Judah first so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah 8 In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David and the house of David will be like God like the angel of the Lord before them 9 And in that day I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalemrdquo

126-9 reiterates with details

Judah has a specific military role

Fascinating reference to the lsquohouse of Davidrsquo WUWT

God still deals with tribal grievances and jealousies in Israel

Jerusalem defended secondly

10 ldquoI will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplication so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only son and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn

1210 spotlights the Spiritrsquos role

I First God pours out His Spirit onto Jerusalem and Israel SO THAT

II Secondly Jews will LOOK ON JESUS and mourn and weep over their rejection of their Messiah

First off ldquoSO THATrdquo establishes a cause-and-effect relationship between the versersquos two statements

Godrsquos Spirit must soften hardened Jewish hearts just as He must soften hardened Gentile hearts if we are to be savedHis role is central to everything that happens here

III-B HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

The fountain for impurity in Zechariah 13

1 In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for impurity2 It will come about in that dayrdquo declares the Lord of hosts ldquothat I will cut off the names of the idols from the land and they will no longer be remembered and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the landrdquo

Chapter 131-2 God explains his intention to spiritually cleanse all Israel

Godrsquos grace as a cleansing fountain for an entire nation

The cleansing fountain reaches to families to cities to all the land

God fulfills His intentions for Israel in the 70th Week

An end to sinAtonement for iniquityBring in everlasting righteousness

Verses 3-6 give examples of how this cleansing will affect false prophets and their families

7 ldquoAwake O sword against My Shepherd and against the man My Associaterdquo declares the Lord of hosts

Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered and I will turn My hand against the little onesrdquo

137 anchors us at The Cross

The reference here is to Christ Shepherd of the Jewish flock One with God the Father

The reference here is to the crucifixion of Jesus and subsequent dispersal of the Jews at 70 AD

Zechariah begins here a 3-verse poetic cry with Christrsquos death and the Jewsrsquo

dispersal in 70 AD and then he leaps forward in time to the end of The 70th

Week This historical sweep leaps over a 19 century hiatus in which Israel is

absent from the land I think Revelation 12 presents us with the same pattern

From Christrsquos birth and then over 19 centuries to the Tribulation Itrsquos as if God

wants us to remember the connection the 70th Weekrsquos conclusion makes with all

of redemptive history

8 ldquoIt will come about in all the landrdquo declares the Lord ldquoThat two parts in it will be cut off and perish but the third will be left in it

9 And I will bring the third part through the fire refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested They will call on My name and I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplelsquo and they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

138+9 leap to The End

This incredible slaughter sets the measure of Jewish despair

Here God states His purpose spiritual refinement spiritual brokeness and a national acceptance of Jesus as Messiahndashat last

We see here a measure of national Jewish stubbornness and hardness of heart

Not only must they exhaust all alternatives to Jesus-as-Messiah they must now

resist to the point that their very existence as a people seems seriously in doubt

ldquoHow often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers

her chicks under her wings and you were unwilling rdquo Jesus in Matthew 23

Their unwilling hearts must be broken to make their redemption possible

III-C HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVEDZechariah 14rsquos amazing rescue

1 ldquoBehold a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you

2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city will be captured the houses plundered the women ravished and half of the city exiled but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city

3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when He fights on a day of battlerdquo

141-3 Opens the Newscast

Treat this verse as a FOX NEWS ALERT announcement if you will

4 The Lord goes forth and fights as when He fights on a day of battle Wow

THE LEAD Four steps that explain HOW this spoil comes to get recaptured and divided

1 All nations gathered to attack

2 Jerusalem captured3 Half city exiled half

hold on and then

Notice the sequence

4 ldquoIn that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which is in front of Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel yes you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Himrdquo

144-5 Camera Goes Into the Field

This is first of several lsquofield reportsrsquo which flesh out the segmentrsquos headline and lead

This is huge What a glorious manifestation Here the city is cleared to make way for the engagement of the enemy

Note the word lsquoTHENrsquo it has its parallel at the start of verse 3 above In both cases events occur that set the stage for the Lordrsquos actual engagement with the enemy

Notice another sequence

6 In that day there will be no light the luminaries will dwindle 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night but it will come about that at evening time there will be light

8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea it will be in summer as well as in winter

146-8 Camera Stays In the Field

This verse removes any chance that this

section has historical fulfillment

How frequently does Zechariah identify this climax of the age with this phrase lsquoin that dayrsquo How often does Isaiah use this same phrase to tag the moment of The End With verse 8 the Spirit

begins a lengthy section in which the aftermath of The Lordrsquos Return features prominently

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

10 ldquoI will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplication so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only son and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn

1210 spotlights the Spiritrsquos role

I First God pours out His Spirit onto Jerusalem and Israel SO THAT

II Secondly Jews will LOOK ON JESUS and mourn and weep over their rejection of their Messiah

First off ldquoSO THATrdquo establishes a cause-and-effect relationship between the versersquos two statements

Godrsquos Spirit must soften hardened Jewish hearts just as He must soften hardened Gentile hearts if we are to be savedHis role is central to everything that happens here

III-B HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

The fountain for impurity in Zechariah 13

1 In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for impurity2 It will come about in that dayrdquo declares the Lord of hosts ldquothat I will cut off the names of the idols from the land and they will no longer be remembered and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the landrdquo

Chapter 131-2 God explains his intention to spiritually cleanse all Israel

Godrsquos grace as a cleansing fountain for an entire nation

The cleansing fountain reaches to families to cities to all the land

God fulfills His intentions for Israel in the 70th Week

An end to sinAtonement for iniquityBring in everlasting righteousness

Verses 3-6 give examples of how this cleansing will affect false prophets and their families

7 ldquoAwake O sword against My Shepherd and against the man My Associaterdquo declares the Lord of hosts

Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered and I will turn My hand against the little onesrdquo

137 anchors us at The Cross

The reference here is to Christ Shepherd of the Jewish flock One with God the Father

The reference here is to the crucifixion of Jesus and subsequent dispersal of the Jews at 70 AD

Zechariah begins here a 3-verse poetic cry with Christrsquos death and the Jewsrsquo

dispersal in 70 AD and then he leaps forward in time to the end of The 70th

Week This historical sweep leaps over a 19 century hiatus in which Israel is

absent from the land I think Revelation 12 presents us with the same pattern

From Christrsquos birth and then over 19 centuries to the Tribulation Itrsquos as if God

wants us to remember the connection the 70th Weekrsquos conclusion makes with all

of redemptive history

8 ldquoIt will come about in all the landrdquo declares the Lord ldquoThat two parts in it will be cut off and perish but the third will be left in it

9 And I will bring the third part through the fire refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested They will call on My name and I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplelsquo and they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

138+9 leap to The End

This incredible slaughter sets the measure of Jewish despair

Here God states His purpose spiritual refinement spiritual brokeness and a national acceptance of Jesus as Messiahndashat last

We see here a measure of national Jewish stubbornness and hardness of heart

Not only must they exhaust all alternatives to Jesus-as-Messiah they must now

resist to the point that their very existence as a people seems seriously in doubt

ldquoHow often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers

her chicks under her wings and you were unwilling rdquo Jesus in Matthew 23

Their unwilling hearts must be broken to make their redemption possible

III-C HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVEDZechariah 14rsquos amazing rescue

1 ldquoBehold a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you

2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city will be captured the houses plundered the women ravished and half of the city exiled but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city

3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when He fights on a day of battlerdquo

141-3 Opens the Newscast

Treat this verse as a FOX NEWS ALERT announcement if you will

4 The Lord goes forth and fights as when He fights on a day of battle Wow

THE LEAD Four steps that explain HOW this spoil comes to get recaptured and divided

1 All nations gathered to attack

2 Jerusalem captured3 Half city exiled half

hold on and then

Notice the sequence

4 ldquoIn that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which is in front of Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel yes you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Himrdquo

144-5 Camera Goes Into the Field

This is first of several lsquofield reportsrsquo which flesh out the segmentrsquos headline and lead

This is huge What a glorious manifestation Here the city is cleared to make way for the engagement of the enemy

Note the word lsquoTHENrsquo it has its parallel at the start of verse 3 above In both cases events occur that set the stage for the Lordrsquos actual engagement with the enemy

Notice another sequence

6 In that day there will be no light the luminaries will dwindle 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night but it will come about that at evening time there will be light

8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea it will be in summer as well as in winter

146-8 Camera Stays In the Field

This verse removes any chance that this

section has historical fulfillment

How frequently does Zechariah identify this climax of the age with this phrase lsquoin that dayrsquo How often does Isaiah use this same phrase to tag the moment of The End With verse 8 the Spirit

begins a lengthy section in which the aftermath of The Lordrsquos Return features prominently

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

III-B HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVED

The fountain for impurity in Zechariah 13

1 In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for impurity2 It will come about in that dayrdquo declares the Lord of hosts ldquothat I will cut off the names of the idols from the land and they will no longer be remembered and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the landrdquo

Chapter 131-2 God explains his intention to spiritually cleanse all Israel

Godrsquos grace as a cleansing fountain for an entire nation

The cleansing fountain reaches to families to cities to all the land

God fulfills His intentions for Israel in the 70th Week

An end to sinAtonement for iniquityBring in everlasting righteousness

Verses 3-6 give examples of how this cleansing will affect false prophets and their families

7 ldquoAwake O sword against My Shepherd and against the man My Associaterdquo declares the Lord of hosts

Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered and I will turn My hand against the little onesrdquo

137 anchors us at The Cross

The reference here is to Christ Shepherd of the Jewish flock One with God the Father

The reference here is to the crucifixion of Jesus and subsequent dispersal of the Jews at 70 AD

Zechariah begins here a 3-verse poetic cry with Christrsquos death and the Jewsrsquo

dispersal in 70 AD and then he leaps forward in time to the end of The 70th

Week This historical sweep leaps over a 19 century hiatus in which Israel is

absent from the land I think Revelation 12 presents us with the same pattern

From Christrsquos birth and then over 19 centuries to the Tribulation Itrsquos as if God

wants us to remember the connection the 70th Weekrsquos conclusion makes with all

of redemptive history

8 ldquoIt will come about in all the landrdquo declares the Lord ldquoThat two parts in it will be cut off and perish but the third will be left in it

9 And I will bring the third part through the fire refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested They will call on My name and I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplelsquo and they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

138+9 leap to The End

This incredible slaughter sets the measure of Jewish despair

Here God states His purpose spiritual refinement spiritual brokeness and a national acceptance of Jesus as Messiahndashat last

We see here a measure of national Jewish stubbornness and hardness of heart

Not only must they exhaust all alternatives to Jesus-as-Messiah they must now

resist to the point that their very existence as a people seems seriously in doubt

ldquoHow often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers

her chicks under her wings and you were unwilling rdquo Jesus in Matthew 23

Their unwilling hearts must be broken to make their redemption possible

III-C HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVEDZechariah 14rsquos amazing rescue

1 ldquoBehold a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you

2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city will be captured the houses plundered the women ravished and half of the city exiled but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city

3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when He fights on a day of battlerdquo

141-3 Opens the Newscast

Treat this verse as a FOX NEWS ALERT announcement if you will

4 The Lord goes forth and fights as when He fights on a day of battle Wow

THE LEAD Four steps that explain HOW this spoil comes to get recaptured and divided

1 All nations gathered to attack

2 Jerusalem captured3 Half city exiled half

hold on and then

Notice the sequence

4 ldquoIn that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which is in front of Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel yes you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Himrdquo

144-5 Camera Goes Into the Field

This is first of several lsquofield reportsrsquo which flesh out the segmentrsquos headline and lead

This is huge What a glorious manifestation Here the city is cleared to make way for the engagement of the enemy

Note the word lsquoTHENrsquo it has its parallel at the start of verse 3 above In both cases events occur that set the stage for the Lordrsquos actual engagement with the enemy

Notice another sequence

6 In that day there will be no light the luminaries will dwindle 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night but it will come about that at evening time there will be light

8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea it will be in summer as well as in winter

146-8 Camera Stays In the Field

This verse removes any chance that this

section has historical fulfillment

How frequently does Zechariah identify this climax of the age with this phrase lsquoin that dayrsquo How often does Isaiah use this same phrase to tag the moment of The End With verse 8 the Spirit

begins a lengthy section in which the aftermath of The Lordrsquos Return features prominently

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

1 In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for impurity2 It will come about in that dayrdquo declares the Lord of hosts ldquothat I will cut off the names of the idols from the land and they will no longer be remembered and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the landrdquo

Chapter 131-2 God explains his intention to spiritually cleanse all Israel

Godrsquos grace as a cleansing fountain for an entire nation

The cleansing fountain reaches to families to cities to all the land

God fulfills His intentions for Israel in the 70th Week

An end to sinAtonement for iniquityBring in everlasting righteousness

Verses 3-6 give examples of how this cleansing will affect false prophets and their families

7 ldquoAwake O sword against My Shepherd and against the man My Associaterdquo declares the Lord of hosts

Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered and I will turn My hand against the little onesrdquo

137 anchors us at The Cross

The reference here is to Christ Shepherd of the Jewish flock One with God the Father

The reference here is to the crucifixion of Jesus and subsequent dispersal of the Jews at 70 AD

Zechariah begins here a 3-verse poetic cry with Christrsquos death and the Jewsrsquo

dispersal in 70 AD and then he leaps forward in time to the end of The 70th

Week This historical sweep leaps over a 19 century hiatus in which Israel is

absent from the land I think Revelation 12 presents us with the same pattern

From Christrsquos birth and then over 19 centuries to the Tribulation Itrsquos as if God

wants us to remember the connection the 70th Weekrsquos conclusion makes with all

of redemptive history

8 ldquoIt will come about in all the landrdquo declares the Lord ldquoThat two parts in it will be cut off and perish but the third will be left in it

9 And I will bring the third part through the fire refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested They will call on My name and I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplelsquo and they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

138+9 leap to The End

This incredible slaughter sets the measure of Jewish despair

Here God states His purpose spiritual refinement spiritual brokeness and a national acceptance of Jesus as Messiahndashat last

We see here a measure of national Jewish stubbornness and hardness of heart

Not only must they exhaust all alternatives to Jesus-as-Messiah they must now

resist to the point that their very existence as a people seems seriously in doubt

ldquoHow often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers

her chicks under her wings and you were unwilling rdquo Jesus in Matthew 23

Their unwilling hearts must be broken to make their redemption possible

III-C HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVEDZechariah 14rsquos amazing rescue

1 ldquoBehold a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you

2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city will be captured the houses plundered the women ravished and half of the city exiled but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city

3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when He fights on a day of battlerdquo

141-3 Opens the Newscast

Treat this verse as a FOX NEWS ALERT announcement if you will

4 The Lord goes forth and fights as when He fights on a day of battle Wow

THE LEAD Four steps that explain HOW this spoil comes to get recaptured and divided

1 All nations gathered to attack

2 Jerusalem captured3 Half city exiled half

hold on and then

Notice the sequence

4 ldquoIn that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which is in front of Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel yes you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Himrdquo

144-5 Camera Goes Into the Field

This is first of several lsquofield reportsrsquo which flesh out the segmentrsquos headline and lead

This is huge What a glorious manifestation Here the city is cleared to make way for the engagement of the enemy

Note the word lsquoTHENrsquo it has its parallel at the start of verse 3 above In both cases events occur that set the stage for the Lordrsquos actual engagement with the enemy

Notice another sequence

6 In that day there will be no light the luminaries will dwindle 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night but it will come about that at evening time there will be light

8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea it will be in summer as well as in winter

146-8 Camera Stays In the Field

This verse removes any chance that this

section has historical fulfillment

How frequently does Zechariah identify this climax of the age with this phrase lsquoin that dayrsquo How often does Isaiah use this same phrase to tag the moment of The End With verse 8 the Spirit

begins a lengthy section in which the aftermath of The Lordrsquos Return features prominently

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

7 ldquoAwake O sword against My Shepherd and against the man My Associaterdquo declares the Lord of hosts

Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered and I will turn My hand against the little onesrdquo

137 anchors us at The Cross

The reference here is to Christ Shepherd of the Jewish flock One with God the Father

The reference here is to the crucifixion of Jesus and subsequent dispersal of the Jews at 70 AD

Zechariah begins here a 3-verse poetic cry with Christrsquos death and the Jewsrsquo

dispersal in 70 AD and then he leaps forward in time to the end of The 70th

Week This historical sweep leaps over a 19 century hiatus in which Israel is

absent from the land I think Revelation 12 presents us with the same pattern

From Christrsquos birth and then over 19 centuries to the Tribulation Itrsquos as if God

wants us to remember the connection the 70th Weekrsquos conclusion makes with all

of redemptive history

8 ldquoIt will come about in all the landrdquo declares the Lord ldquoThat two parts in it will be cut off and perish but the third will be left in it

9 And I will bring the third part through the fire refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested They will call on My name and I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplelsquo and they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

138+9 leap to The End

This incredible slaughter sets the measure of Jewish despair

Here God states His purpose spiritual refinement spiritual brokeness and a national acceptance of Jesus as Messiahndashat last

We see here a measure of national Jewish stubbornness and hardness of heart

Not only must they exhaust all alternatives to Jesus-as-Messiah they must now

resist to the point that their very existence as a people seems seriously in doubt

ldquoHow often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers

her chicks under her wings and you were unwilling rdquo Jesus in Matthew 23

Their unwilling hearts must be broken to make their redemption possible

III-C HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVEDZechariah 14rsquos amazing rescue

1 ldquoBehold a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you

2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city will be captured the houses plundered the women ravished and half of the city exiled but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city

3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when He fights on a day of battlerdquo

141-3 Opens the Newscast

Treat this verse as a FOX NEWS ALERT announcement if you will

4 The Lord goes forth and fights as when He fights on a day of battle Wow

THE LEAD Four steps that explain HOW this spoil comes to get recaptured and divided

1 All nations gathered to attack

2 Jerusalem captured3 Half city exiled half

hold on and then

Notice the sequence

4 ldquoIn that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which is in front of Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel yes you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Himrdquo

144-5 Camera Goes Into the Field

This is first of several lsquofield reportsrsquo which flesh out the segmentrsquos headline and lead

This is huge What a glorious manifestation Here the city is cleared to make way for the engagement of the enemy

Note the word lsquoTHENrsquo it has its parallel at the start of verse 3 above In both cases events occur that set the stage for the Lordrsquos actual engagement with the enemy

Notice another sequence

6 In that day there will be no light the luminaries will dwindle 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night but it will come about that at evening time there will be light

8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea it will be in summer as well as in winter

146-8 Camera Stays In the Field

This verse removes any chance that this

section has historical fulfillment

How frequently does Zechariah identify this climax of the age with this phrase lsquoin that dayrsquo How often does Isaiah use this same phrase to tag the moment of The End With verse 8 the Spirit

begins a lengthy section in which the aftermath of The Lordrsquos Return features prominently

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

8 ldquoIt will come about in all the landrdquo declares the Lord ldquoThat two parts in it will be cut off and perish but the third will be left in it

9 And I will bring the third part through the fire refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested They will call on My name and I will answer them I will say lsquoThey are My peoplelsquo and they will say lsquoThe Lord is my Godrsquordquo

138+9 leap to The End

This incredible slaughter sets the measure of Jewish despair

Here God states His purpose spiritual refinement spiritual brokeness and a national acceptance of Jesus as Messiahndashat last

We see here a measure of national Jewish stubbornness and hardness of heart

Not only must they exhaust all alternatives to Jesus-as-Messiah they must now

resist to the point that their very existence as a people seems seriously in doubt

ldquoHow often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers

her chicks under her wings and you were unwilling rdquo Jesus in Matthew 23

Their unwilling hearts must be broken to make their redemption possible

III-C HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVEDZechariah 14rsquos amazing rescue

1 ldquoBehold a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you

2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city will be captured the houses plundered the women ravished and half of the city exiled but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city

3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when He fights on a day of battlerdquo

141-3 Opens the Newscast

Treat this verse as a FOX NEWS ALERT announcement if you will

4 The Lord goes forth and fights as when He fights on a day of battle Wow

THE LEAD Four steps that explain HOW this spoil comes to get recaptured and divided

1 All nations gathered to attack

2 Jerusalem captured3 Half city exiled half

hold on and then

Notice the sequence

4 ldquoIn that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which is in front of Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel yes you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Himrdquo

144-5 Camera Goes Into the Field

This is first of several lsquofield reportsrsquo which flesh out the segmentrsquos headline and lead

This is huge What a glorious manifestation Here the city is cleared to make way for the engagement of the enemy

Note the word lsquoTHENrsquo it has its parallel at the start of verse 3 above In both cases events occur that set the stage for the Lordrsquos actual engagement with the enemy

Notice another sequence

6 In that day there will be no light the luminaries will dwindle 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night but it will come about that at evening time there will be light

8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea it will be in summer as well as in winter

146-8 Camera Stays In the Field

This verse removes any chance that this

section has historical fulfillment

How frequently does Zechariah identify this climax of the age with this phrase lsquoin that dayrsquo How often does Isaiah use this same phrase to tag the moment of The End With verse 8 the Spirit

begins a lengthy section in which the aftermath of The Lordrsquos Return features prominently

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

III-C HOW ALL ISRAEL COMES TO BE SAVEDZechariah 14rsquos amazing rescue

1 ldquoBehold a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you

2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city will be captured the houses plundered the women ravished and half of the city exiled but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city

3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when He fights on a day of battlerdquo

141-3 Opens the Newscast

Treat this verse as a FOX NEWS ALERT announcement if you will

4 The Lord goes forth and fights as when He fights on a day of battle Wow

THE LEAD Four steps that explain HOW this spoil comes to get recaptured and divided

1 All nations gathered to attack

2 Jerusalem captured3 Half city exiled half

hold on and then

Notice the sequence

4 ldquoIn that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which is in front of Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel yes you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Himrdquo

144-5 Camera Goes Into the Field

This is first of several lsquofield reportsrsquo which flesh out the segmentrsquos headline and lead

This is huge What a glorious manifestation Here the city is cleared to make way for the engagement of the enemy

Note the word lsquoTHENrsquo it has its parallel at the start of verse 3 above In both cases events occur that set the stage for the Lordrsquos actual engagement with the enemy

Notice another sequence

6 In that day there will be no light the luminaries will dwindle 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night but it will come about that at evening time there will be light

8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea it will be in summer as well as in winter

146-8 Camera Stays In the Field

This verse removes any chance that this

section has historical fulfillment

How frequently does Zechariah identify this climax of the age with this phrase lsquoin that dayrsquo How often does Isaiah use this same phrase to tag the moment of The End With verse 8 the Spirit

begins a lengthy section in which the aftermath of The Lordrsquos Return features prominently

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

1 ldquoBehold a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you

2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city will be captured the houses plundered the women ravished and half of the city exiled but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city

3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when He fights on a day of battlerdquo

141-3 Opens the Newscast

Treat this verse as a FOX NEWS ALERT announcement if you will

4 The Lord goes forth and fights as when He fights on a day of battle Wow

THE LEAD Four steps that explain HOW this spoil comes to get recaptured and divided

1 All nations gathered to attack

2 Jerusalem captured3 Half city exiled half

hold on and then

Notice the sequence

4 ldquoIn that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which is in front of Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel yes you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Himrdquo

144-5 Camera Goes Into the Field

This is first of several lsquofield reportsrsquo which flesh out the segmentrsquos headline and lead

This is huge What a glorious manifestation Here the city is cleared to make way for the engagement of the enemy

Note the word lsquoTHENrsquo it has its parallel at the start of verse 3 above In both cases events occur that set the stage for the Lordrsquos actual engagement with the enemy

Notice another sequence

6 In that day there will be no light the luminaries will dwindle 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night but it will come about that at evening time there will be light

8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea it will be in summer as well as in winter

146-8 Camera Stays In the Field

This verse removes any chance that this

section has historical fulfillment

How frequently does Zechariah identify this climax of the age with this phrase lsquoin that dayrsquo How often does Isaiah use this same phrase to tag the moment of The End With verse 8 the Spirit

begins a lengthy section in which the aftermath of The Lordrsquos Return features prominently

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

4 ldquoIn that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which is in front of Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel yes you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Himrdquo

144-5 Camera Goes Into the Field

This is first of several lsquofield reportsrsquo which flesh out the segmentrsquos headline and lead

This is huge What a glorious manifestation Here the city is cleared to make way for the engagement of the enemy

Note the word lsquoTHENrsquo it has its parallel at the start of verse 3 above In both cases events occur that set the stage for the Lordrsquos actual engagement with the enemy

Notice another sequence

6 In that day there will be no light the luminaries will dwindle 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night but it will come about that at evening time there will be light

8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea it will be in summer as well as in winter

146-8 Camera Stays In the Field

This verse removes any chance that this

section has historical fulfillment

How frequently does Zechariah identify this climax of the age with this phrase lsquoin that dayrsquo How often does Isaiah use this same phrase to tag the moment of The End With verse 8 the Spirit

begins a lengthy section in which the aftermath of The Lordrsquos Return features prominently

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

6 In that day there will be no light the luminaries will dwindle 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night but it will come about that at evening time there will be light

8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea it will be in summer as well as in winter

146-8 Camera Stays In the Field

This verse removes any chance that this

section has historical fulfillment

How frequently does Zechariah identify this climax of the age with this phrase lsquoin that dayrsquo How often does Isaiah use this same phrase to tag the moment of The End With verse 8 the Spirit

begins a lengthy section in which the aftermath of The Lordrsquos Return features prominently

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

A Deliverer Spirit)comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

The Jews look upon Jesus

Jesus returnsThe Dead rise

Letrsquos take one at a time

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

Time of the Gentiles finishes

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Oh yes the time of the Gentiles finishesndashwith a huge

BANG Zechariah 12-14 sets its lsquocamerarsquo not on a

mountain in Megiddo but on Jerusalem

The Gentiles called by AntiChrist to oppose the Lordrsquos

return seem to have won the battle at Zion when Jesus

appears in some GIANT manifestation standing astride

the Mt of Olives Jesus the Lion of Judah with His holy

ones (the Church) and an aroused Israel clear the field

of invaders

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

National Israelndashthe one-third who remain alive at the end cannot break with centuries of enmity with this Jesus-person Two mutually reinforcing experiences change all this The first is spiritual intervention God pours out a Spirit of grace and supplication (1210)

and a fountain for sin and impurity opens (131)Spiritual renewal starts with a spiritual revitalization which alone makes for repentance Godrsquos gift of the Spirit starts national Israel on this path

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

A Deliverer (The Spirit) comes from Zion and removes ungodliness from Israel

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

The Jews call out ldquoBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Jesus SAID they would (Matthew

2337) Here we have the narrative

into which this blessed and hoped

for occurrence fits

The second pressure to national

repentance must take place

however This onersquos physical

Zechariah 14 details the horrible

disaster which must befall national

Israel in order to finally break their

wills even as their hearts are

softened and opened

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

Zechariah describes the sequence the NT suggests

And so all Israel is saved

Jesus returns

Oh yeah and in a BIG way The picture here comes from cameras located in Jerusalem and gives us a very local perspective on this eventNote that the return of the Lord DOES follow national Israeli acceptance of Jesus-just as Jesus said it would

The Jews do in fact gaze upon Him who their race pierced

The Jews look upon Jesus

What about the ldquolife from the deadrsquo as

Paul promised

The Dead rise

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead Romans 1111-15

Try Daniel and Revelation Lenny

ldquo and at that time your people everyone who is found written in the book will be rescuedMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these to everlasting life but the others to disgrace and everlasting contemptrdquo Daniel 122 describing the precise moment covered by Zechariah 12-14

4 ldquo And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed This is the first resurrectionrdquo

Revelation 20 announcing the FIRST RESURRECTION at the end of the tribulation at the end of the Time of Jacobrsquos Troubles so called

What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

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What am I up to hereWhat did I do

I surveyed several New Testament passages

and presented a sequential even cause-and-

effect relationship that involved national

Israel the Return of Jesus and the

ResurrectionAn interesting notion

I then took you to the OT to Zechariahrsquos final

chapters to investigate a narrative in which we

see these elements align themselves

sequentially to that interesting NT pattern

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

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this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

So I guess the ballrsquos in your courtndashHow do you fit Zechariah 12-14 together

with Jesus in Matthew 2337 Paul in Romans 11 and John in Revelation 17

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series

So wersquove mixed NT and OT prophetic

passages in provocative ways Letrsquos move our

focus to the New Testamentrsquos treatment of

the end times

XII Introduction to NT Prophecy

For the next installment in

this series click this link

Search the Table of Contents

for Other Offerings In This Series