1. Zechariah 14:3 states, “Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations,” and Zechariah 14:5 adds, “and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.” To what time period is Zechariah referring? What are these prophecies about?
2. Zechariah 14:4 describes the coming Christ at His second coming. As Jesus ascended from the Mount of Olives (Acts 1:9-12), so He will return to the same mountain. Read Zechariah 14:4 very carefully and draw a map of the dividing of the mountain at the return of Christ.
3. Zechariah 14:9 states, “And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.” What day is being referred to in this verse? What do you think it means that there will be one Lord and His name one?
Zechariah 14:6-7 seems to refer to a time of half light and half darkness at the time of the Lord’s return: “the light shall not be clear, nor dark” and “not day, not night.” Read this strange description carefully. What do you think it describes? If you were to match a time in your life to this description, what time would it be?
2. In that day, “living waters shall go out from Jerusalem” (Zechariah 14:8). The phrase, living waters, is only found four times in the Bible, the other three being Song of Solomon 4:15; Jeremiah 2:13; 17:13. See also John 4:10-14; 7:38; Revelation 7:17. What are living waters? Of what are they a picture? How are they a blessing to us?
Zechariah 14:6-7 describes a most fantastic day. It is a day that is neither “clear” nor “dark;” “not day, not night;” but at “evening time it shall be light.” The day this chapter describes is the day of the Lord. In Joel 2:2, the day of the Lord is said to be a “day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains.” Amos 5:20 calls it a day “very dark, and no brightness in it.” In Zephaniah 1:15, the day of the Lord is “a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness.”
The day of the Lord is a day of judgment and of war between God and Satan. Battlefields are often filled with thick clouds of smoke. Nothing can be seen. It is like the morning fog spread upon the mountains (Joel 2:2). Yet, at the end of the day, the Lord will come and fight for Mount Zion. He who is light brings light to the darkness. At evening time it shall be light (Zechariah 14:7).
Therefore, the gloomy day portrays the wrath of God and His judgment on sin. It also indicates the ongoing battle and the coming presence of the Lord. Though times are bad and the battle is hard, it will soon be over and the light will shine forth like the day.
Is your day neither clear nor dark? Are you enveloped in the fog of war? Are you surrounded by your enemies and doing all you can just to hold out? Help is on the way; the Lord shall go forth and fight for you—if you are trusting in Him. Hold the fort; make the watch strong; prepare for ambushes; watch for the morning light!
TEXT: Zechariah 14:1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the
TEXT: Zechariah 14:1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses.
11 And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
