Zechariah 14

Perhaps this chapter had the first step of its fulfilment in the signal victories of the Maccabees over the Syro-grecians, who had taken Jerusalem by force, and ravaged the country; and in the restoration of Jerusalem, and the reformation of religion that followed. But it had a more signal fulfilment in the destruction and dispersion of the Jewish nation by the Romans; afterwards of the heathen empire of Rome by the Goths; and the spread of the gospel, and erection, enlargement, or prosperity of the Christian church, which attended the same. Yet it will have a further accomplishment in God’s destroying the Turks, who shall attack the newly-returned Jews, and in the prosperity and reformation of the Jewish nation attending the same; in his destroying the Antichristian and Mahometan powers, when making their final attack upon the Christians; and in the powerful spread of the gospel, the subjection of all nations to Christ, and the remarkable devotion and holiness of church members, in the millennial period. And it will have its last step of fulfilment in God’s destroying the armies of Gog and Magog, which attack his church, in the end of the millennium, and in the final extirpation and damnation of the wicked at the last day, and the glories of the new heaven and new earth in the eternal state. 4, 5. In consequence of Christ’s ascension, he shall be manifested in the gospel preached by his apostles, according to the commission given them on mount Olivet; and the ceremonial worship shall be removed, and Jews and Gentiles, having equal admission, shall, in multitudes, eagerly flee to the Redeemer, and unite in the gospel church. 6, 7. For a time the condition of the Jews shall neither be happy nor absolutely miserable: for a time the ceremonies shall not seem wholly abolished; nay, for many ages, the Christian church shall have but a mixed lot of prosperity and adversity; but the Lord shall graciously take notice of and manage all; and at last, in the millennium, great shall be the prosperity and purity of the Jewish nation and gospel church. 8, 9. Issuing forth from Jerusalem and the church of God, the gospel shall, amidst prosperity and adversity, be preached by the apostles and others, in all quarters of the world, till all nations be turned to the Lord: and men renouncing all their idolatries and delusions, shall harmoniously unite in the faith, profession, and obedience, of Christ. 10, 11. Every obstacle of conversion, and every noted abomination, shall be removed; and the Jews, happily settled in Canaan, shall gloriously and safely share the privileges of the gospel church

Zechariah 14:12-15

By signal judgments, and mutual contentions, the opposers of the Jews and Christians shall be infatuated and destroyed, and their wealth left for a spoil, to enrich those whom they had attempted to destroy

Zechariah 14:16-19

The keeping of the feast of tabernacles denotes an observance of the various ordinances. Before Christ cir. 40c