Zechariah 14

Chapter 14 will be very clear and now we enter into this new chapter and behold the day of the Lord cometh. That expression is important. We'll be reading in that day, in that day, in that day and we're not away from a different thing.

The day of the Lord cometh. Now in the context of this chapter 14, though we said just now that the day of the Lord is not exclusively one specific day, but in the context of chapter 14, I think it is referring to that one specific day. When Christ comes, when Christ comes.

His feet will stand upon the mother of all. The day when Christ comes. It's quite interesting just to, no time here to talk about it, but when Christ comes, there's quite an itinerary of his battle.

Oh yeah. You know, he will, Edom will be part of his itinerary. Mount of Olives will be his itinerary.

So he's not just going to come and somehow mid-air and with a snap and everything is gone and all the enemy is defeated. There is an itinerary. So you have a good study just to think the day when Christ comes, who and what will he deal and now he's coming to Jerusalem.

It says, behold the day of the Lord cometh and thy spoils should be divided in the midst of thee. It paints a picture of just before Christ comes first. And what will happen to them? He says, I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle.

And we're nearly at that, what we often call Armageddon. And even though there's some questions of what really Armageddon really means, but we'll leave that for now. There's that battle that is coming up.

We were at chapter 12. Our brother was there with us, took us there. Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about.

So all the nations that gather against Jerusalem, they'll find that it's a hot pan to handle. It's not such an easy thing, you know. So they'll find it difficult.

It's a cup of trembling. And when they think that they have sieged and they have overcome Jerusalem, it's a burdensome stone for all the people. All that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the earth be gathered together against it.

So that's the battle of Jerusalem when it comes to the nations, their perspective. But now the battle in Jerusalem is viewed from the perspective of the remnant, the nations, the hot pan. But for the remnant, it will be a very tough time.

What is it? He says the city shall be taken, houses rifled, women ravished, half of the city go into captivity. And it says in verse 1, their spoils shall be divided in the midst. Thy spoils will be divided in the midst of thee, in front of thy eyes.

They will be plundered and looted and dispossessed. And their women, their houses, everything ruined and taken. So the armies have led siege, it seems.

The city, the defenses now have been breached. Military defense is overcome. It's rapidly falling and at that moment the Mount of Olives is split.

The valley opens up, it moves towards the north, towards the south, and there's a plain east-west, out to the east. So that the remnant of that city can escape, get away from those armies that are rapidly closing in. It has already begun to fall.

Is that the picture? Brother William has brought us down like verse 6 and 7 and all that. We should be done in 15 minutes. Yeah, you're right.

But I was just looking, that moment, that's in verse number 3, then shall the Lord go forth. Divine intervention. Then shall the Lord go forth and fight against those nations.

As when he fought in the day of Baal. Don't you think that Israel is impenetrable? It might seem like that today. If you have interest in the modern history of Israel, you'll find that all the wars they fought, how they turn around is nearly miraculous.

And they somehow, the national psyche of Israel is they are invincible. They can fight any wars, they can fight multiple fronts. Whether it's Lebanon, it's Iran, and now it's Yemen.

This is, well, bring it on. That's their attitude towards battle now. Because in history, it's proven.

Can't be beaten. The enemies want to push them to the sea. Bring it on.

That's the way they talk today. The days will come when they will be totally penetrated, invaded to the point of extinction. And this is when they will realize that there is a Messiah that can save them.

Then shall the Lord go forth and fight against them. And what will happen? Brother mentioned this, verse 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, split into half in the midst thereof, toward the east and toward the west.

This word, cleave, it's use of the Red Sea. What happened to the Red Sea? Parted as well. There's word cleave, it's use of Korah, Natham, Abiram.

What happened? The earth opened up and swallowed them up. You see what God can do? He can part things into half. The Red Sea, he parted.

The earth, he parted. And now a hill, a mountain, he's parting the whole Mount of Olives. It's not a very high, tall mountain if you've been to Israel.

But still, the whole thing is split into half. And it says one goes towards the north, the other one towards the south. Now just a bit of topography of Jerusalem.

Here is the Temple Mount. East side here is Mount of Olives. And this is the eastern side, the gate and all that.

Here's the Temple. And the Lord will come. And here is east.

He splits the mountain. One side goes to the north, the other side goes to the south. A valley is formed.

And Christ and his armies are now here in the valley. And it says, our brother reminded us, there is a remnant that is stranded in Jerusalem. And they are at their wit's end and they're at the last moment.

Desperate. And now suddenly Christ comes. Topographical changes take place.

Perhaps some cracks of the wall around and all that. And an opening is seen now. And they see a way of escape.

And the remnant sees an opportunity and they run out. And Christ now is out there and there with him. It says in verse number five, ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains.

For the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal. That's how far it goes. Ye shall flee like as fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah, the king of Judah.

Famous earthquake in the days of Uzziah. Now this part is important. And the Lord my God shall come.

And all the saints. With thee? With thee? Who is this thee? I suspect they escape, they come out. The Lord with all his saints from heaven, including us.

Revelation 19. I don't want to ask what our brother thinks. He's giving me the eye.

I know what he thinks. So with all his saints, Revelation 19. And now with thee, with the folks that just came out from Jerusalem.

Thee is Jerusalem. Feminine. Referring to the city.

The remnant that escaped from the city. And now together with Christ and his army and with those remnant that came out, desperation now will suddenly be turned into victory. And it says and it shall come to pass and so on.

And it doesn't show us the result of the battle yet. It jumps right into the millennial conditions. And then it comes back again on the later part of chapter 12 of what happens to the enemy.

But the reason is it wants you to focus on this point. That Jerusalem in all its outermost desperation, Christ will intervene. He will come and his people will come out with him and will be delivered.

Back to Joel 2, just briefly in our thinking for a moment. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision. The valley of Jehoshaphat in the northern part of the land.

But this is focusing in. Does this tie in with your comments yesterday about the focus coming in now to Jerusalem? This is the focal point of it all. There will be armies amassed in other parts, but this is the focal point where it's being dealt with.

Can we just maybe a nice picture. We were reminded if you go back to Acts chapter 1 when he ascends into heaven and I remember as a young believer reading this and kind of thinking of it as a figure of speech when the angel says the one that goes into heaven will come in the same manner as you see him go. Very good.

It's also this thought of he's returning in the same path. He left the Mount of Olives. He is coming back to the Mount of Olives.

So as a young believer, this is not just a figurative way of speaking, but it's a literal thing. He will come. Then maybe the next question is simply this.

Well, hasn't the rapture occurred? That's different. We will be caught into the air with him. He does not return to earth.

We meet him in the air, but the second coming is when his feet hit the Mount of Olives. So there's a just an important, I know maybe it's very simple, but if you're a young believer and you go, well, what's the difference? He's saying he's coming back to the air with a shout and now you're saying he's coming here. Is it all one time? No, it's two different things.

Two different events. Very good. Now that is why sometimes we don't call the rapture the second coming of Christ.

Generally, we sometimes do, but just to be very distinct, we sometimes refer to the second coming of Christ on earth as the second. And when it rapture, we call it a rapture. And that would keep it clear and distinctive.

Rapture. What our brother says, rapture. 1 Corinthians 15, 1 Thessalonians 4. He'll be in the clouds.

We'll meet him in the air. Could you imagine flying to the skies? Meet him in the air and we shall forever be with the Lord. We'll return with him.

But when we talk about a second coming of Christ, it is not the church. It is for Israel now and for the earth and for the nations. And his feet will be upon the Mount of Olives.

Ezekiel tells us that at one point the glory of the Lord descended and ascended back into heaven from the Mount of Olives. Mount of Olives seemed to be symbolical of the leaving of God. And the Lord Jesus left as well, went up to heaven, Mount of Olives.

But Mount of Olives therefore now is the very point of the coming back of God in the person of Christ. So our brother David's reference to Acts 1 is very important because there the Lord with his disciples are going out of Jerusalem. The question is asked, will thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? And it's not for you to know the times and the seasons which the Father hath put in his own authority.

But then with that the Lord Jesus raised his hands to bless them. He ascended bodily back into heaven. That's the opening bracket.

Here's the closing bracket. Now he's going to resume in exactly the same way. He's going to come back to the same place.

He's going to come back to Jerusalem. That's been the subject of Zachariah so far, the restoration of Jerusalem. So I think our brother William's point is very helpful.

There's all kinds of other shindig going on in the land and in the area. But it's not Zachariah's purpose to give us a panorama of all that's happening at the end of the tribulation. He's focusing on the promise to restore Jerusalem.

And then next verse, it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, or rather verse six, and it shall come to pass in that day that the light shall not be clear nor dark. But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, nor day nor night, but it shall come to pass at that evening time it shall be light. Now these verses are difficult for me, but I simply take it that something will be changed.

Not only topographical changes in Jerusalem, but this will trigger a cosmic change. Light will be different. And there will be a point when it will be just darkness, no light, and a congealed light.

And then verse seven, suddenly light springs in. One day shall be known to the Lord, nor day nor night, but it shall come to pass that even at evening it shall be light. I'm just thinking perhaps it's the glory of Christ now that has now brightened the whole place.

Are you happy with that? There will be signs in the heavens and so on during the tribulation period, and towards the end, one of the vials, darkness will fill the beast's kingdom. There are already tremendous things going on towards the end of the tribulation period in particular. And so this is the ultimate twilight zone.

It should be night, but it's not. There's still light. So do you take verse six and seven as a phenomena still in the tribulation and towards it, or is this a phenomena that comes up in the Millennial Kingdom? That's the struggle I have.

Verse six and seven. Because verse eight is clearly Millennial conditions. Yes.

Yeah, but I had thought this was part in that day, verse one. Yes. Back to verse one.

In that day, whenever Israel is restored, when there's national mourning, when there's restoration, when the Lord comes and delivers the remnant, on that very day, it'll be a day that will have this twilight going on. The day that the Mount of Olives splits, that same day. That's how I see it.

Well, we're told in verse seven it is one day. Yes. As opposed to that day.

Yeah. So, you know, I can, we often use it as a figure of speech, don't we? You know, that we would say to the young folk, you know, in my day we never had phones like that. We don't mean 24 hours.

We're referring to a particular epoch of time. We, you know, so we've got to distinguish in this passage between the conditions of this new dispensation. Yes.

As distinct from one day. Right. But I would suggest that in this is, you've got the effects of Isaiah 65.

Behold, I create a new heavens and a new earth. Not to be confused with Revelation 21, of course, though the language is very similar. In Isaiah 65, it's I repair the heavens and the earth.

Remember, the Lord is coming back to a planet that can scarcely sustain life. The angel of the waters has gone out. He's smitten the potable water supplies of the earth.

It is possible to survive without oil. If you're below a certain age, you may be surprised to learn it's even possible to survive without a cell phone. But you cannot survive without water.

So the days of earth are numbered from the angel going out and destroying the water supplies, except those days be short, not even the elect should be saved. Life on earth is virtually unsustainable. And that's the planet to which the Lord returns.

I'm not wishing to open into a debate here. I just think that the the saints, whether it's the holy ones, it's the angels are going to come with him. And he's going to come with angelic force.

And then the events of the regeneration of Matthew 1928, the effects of Isaiah 65, the reordering of the heavens and the earth ready for millennial conditions. And that might well account for the fact that in that one day, there's strange things. It's that twilight zone.

It's the transfer, not just almost of a dispensation, but they're moving from the heavens and earth that now are to the heavens and the earth that will be in the millennial reign of right. There will be day and night in the millennium. Oh, there will be.

Right. But but there won't be need of the sun and the moon and things like that. So in a sense, it's going to be what Adam lost in the garden.

Christ is going to be in a new and different place because God's purpose was a man would reign on earth. Right. Adam lost it.

Christ is regaining it. Yes. Right.

So he will reign over the earth. And even the creation is going to be healed. Yes.

So in some in a great measure, the millennial kingdom will be somewhat a return of Edenic conditions. Right. So I'm trying to say.

Yeah. Right. Now, talking about water or whether it's leading us to verse eight, shall be in that day the living waters shall go out from Jerusalem.

You'll never need Hoover Dam again. Is this Revelation 22, bro? Yes. Um.

It's the answer to it on earth. Yeah. I. Yeah.

I take Revelation 22 is eternal state. Do you? Okay. All right.

Yeah. Well, I see Revelation 22 as a millennial view of what will be eternal. Okay.

But but it's heavenly. Clearly, it's heavenly. Revelation 22.

There's the river and so on. Yeah. And the tree along the banks of the river.

So there's an earthly answer to it. There's an earthly counterpart to that. There's a river.

There's trees. There's life bringing with that river. Yeah.

But I'm quite certain this is this is Ezekiel 47. Yes. Yes.

Yes. So so the topographical changes of the amount of all this, perhaps the splitting of the mountains has resulted in some kind of change to allow waters to flow. And what happens is now living waters go out from Jerusalem from the throne, half of them toward the former sea and the other one to the hinder sea, one to the eastern side, the other one to the western side, the eastern side where to? Well, that is going to the Dead Sea.

Western Sea, that's going to the Mediterranean Sea. Now, these seas are all salt, salt, salty. And if you, I don't know if you've been to the Dead Sea, quite an experience.

It is so salty that you could float on it. You can't sink. You can't sink.

In fact, you really have to sit up quite, struggle a bit to move your legs, your feet to touch the ground. But nothing survives. Nothing survives in the Dead Sea.

Perhaps they say there's some microorganism there or whatever, but nothing major survives. When we go to Ezekiel 47, we'll find that it will thrive with life. The waters from Jerusalem will heal all these salt marshes and salty water.

Mediterranean will certainly thrive in a way that has never before. Are you really excited about the future? Stop wasting your time with devices and handphones and read your Bible. And the Green Movement too.

The whole thing is going to be lead waste and then it's going to be revived. So, half to the former, half to the head, in summer and in winter shall it be. There's no freezing.

Won't turn to ice. Conditions will be maintained. And the Lord shall be king over all the earth.

Amen. And that day, go ahead. There will be fishing.

Yes, we're told that. But there'll be no ice fishing. What version are you reading? He's thinking about his boat.

It's the Skates International version. So, and the Lord shall be king over all the earth. In that day there shall be one Lord and his name one.

Amen. Now, this is Deuteronomy 6 verse 4. This is the Shema, they call it. Why is it relevant here? Because today every Israelite, every Jew, they're just obsessed with their Shema.

They come to a point and that's like their mantra, their silver bullet, whatever you call it. And every boy growing up, they will recite Shema Israel, and they go on and on and on and on. One Lord, one God.

When you go to 1 Corinthians chapter 8, maybe that will help. 1 Corinthians chapter 8 and verse number 5. For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, or there be gods many and lords many, but to us there is but one God the Father, of whom are all things and we in him, and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things and we through him. Paul is quoting the Shema.

But what is he doing? He's saying that in the Old Testament, before progressive revelation, they only knew the one Lord and the one God. But Paul says now in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, that one Lord and one God is not an ultra monotheistic thing and just one God. But now there is plurality of persons in the one God and one Father and one Lord Jesus Christ.

So the Shema is not only the Father, the Shema also is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is also the one Lord. Relevant to Zechariah chapter 14, these men that used to think Israel in its history, rejecting Christ because they thought one Lord, one God and all that, now they've come to realize that this one Lord, one God, the Shema is the Lord Jesus Christ.

And he's on the throne and he is the Deuteronomy 6 verse 4, that they've been thinking, expecting, longing for and he is king of all the earth. In that day there shall be one Lord and his name one. Verse 10, and all the land shall be turned as a plane from Gerba to Ramon and all the way down, the north, south, east and west around Jerusalem will be raised and a flat plain together with the temple mount.

And today Jerusalem, that's the thing. The people of the world, some of the natural historians, they think, why are people just so hung up with Jerusalem? It's not even a beautiful place, naturally speaking. It's all just hills and it's dry.

And the topography is so inconvenient and difficult. Difficult to build things in Jerusalem. Because it's hilly.

And if you've been to Jerusalem, there's the city of David down in the south and it goes up on the hill all the way to the temple mount where Solomon's temple was built. And then there's a slope on a cliff going down on the east side. And there's another cliff on the west side.

And then another hill going up and another hill going up. Many of you are farmers, you wouldn't want to land like that. You said, this is not a place we could plant anything at all.

Hill here and hill there, and a valley in between here and there. Valley on the west, valley on the east, valley on the south. But this day will come when that topographical change will happen.

And all these valleys all be raised to a plain. Jerusalem around will be a flat plain. We go to Isaiah chapter 2, and Jerusalem will be elevated up.

So not only will the plateau be a wide plain, but the whole entire elevated up and lifted up high on mountain. And the nations will go up to Jerusalem and worship the king. So here briefly, go ahead.

Isaiah says every valley shall be exalted, every mountain and hill made low. And Jerusalem will be the only eminence. Established in the top of the mountains.

Would that be symbolic of the the rule of the Lord from here? Yes. That is supreme. My holy mount.

Yes. The holy mount. It will be elevated, it will be prominent, and it will be the capital of the world.

Because the king of the earth is there. There is hardly any water sources today in Jerusalem. The most important water source in Jerusalem is this thing called the Gihon Spring.

It's an ever-flowing spring. It is still effective. It's still bubbling up with water.

But the days will come if the water is going to heal the western and the eastern sea. Gihon Spring has to do a lot more. I tell you, this change in the whole thing will result in perhaps the bursting of the underground springs.

But we're told that water will flow from the throne and it will irrigate the whole entire land. Quite a contrast there between verse 11 and today. Man shall dwell in it, there shall be no more utter destruction, but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.

There'll be no more ballistic missiles, but no more need for the iron dome. It'll be the Lord will protect it. He will be a wall of fire.

Now this word utter destruction is quite interesting because that's a word that prominently comes up in the book of Joshua. And that word, it's quite a technical word. It's the word for the utter destruction of the Gentiles.

It's devoted to destruction. That's the sense of it. Devoted to destruction.

It's a Kerem. It's an utter destruction. So God instructed the Israelites to Joshua.

He says, you have to possess the land. Every inch and foot that your foot will put upon, that shall be yours. Inherit the land.

And in the process of that, God has given them the permission to cause utter destruction to some of the nations. Devoted to destruction. When in these days, man shall dwell in it, there shall be no more utter destruction.

I sense the meaning is this, that even Gentiles are now welcome. And they will find themselves at ease, in peace, dwelling peacefully, for Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited. There will no be devotion for destruction.

It will only be peace and safety in Jerusalem. This again is Isaiah 65, isn't it? I create Jerusalem a rejoicing. There will be no more again heard in its streets the voice of crying.

No more tears. The end of Isaiah 65, the wolf will lie down with the lamb. Beautiful, peaceful.

Isaiah 11, yes, that's right. So from millennial conditions in verse 11, that have been set out, are we back in verse 12? Yes, we are. To the manifestation when Christ... Back again, that's right, that's right.

So there's a bit of out of sync chronologically, but it's coming back now to the plague. So we're back to him arriving on the Mount of Olives and now starting the battle together with those that escaped out of Jerusalem and now they're rejoined with him. And what now, Zechariah tells us what happens to the enemies.

Excuse me, Seth, did you want to make the point? So verse number 12, and this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem. All that come against Jerusalem. What will happen? Their flesh will consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

Second Thessalonians chapter 2, he will destroy them with the brightness of his glory and a sword in his mouth, with a pronounced word, with authority of his lips, and with a shining of his glory. They will be destroyed and there will be like a nuclear effect destruction. They will melt away.

They thought they could come against the Lord. Verse 13 there, they shall lay hold every one of it. Confusion.

Yeah, confusion. So that mechanism of destruction, friendly fire, if you will. Yeah.

They're fighting each other. Yeah. That has happened before.

Who? Gideon. Gideon. Jonathan.

Not you. I know. But against Midian.

Right? And they fought, they fought each other. Jonathan, the Philistines. The four lepers as well.

Yes, yes. The invasion of Ezekiel 38, 39. The northern invasion in the tribulation period.

Then again at Armageddon. Similar mechanism. Where God causes that confusion.

They're fighting each other. And there's this destruction that's affected. Now I'm going to try to not get, it was the word fangled.

I'm going to try not to get myself tangled up in it. Fankul. Fankul.

I'm going to try not to do that. But I have a question. You said yesterday there's no such thing as a dumb question.

But then you also said if you ask a question you have the answer. I don't have the answer. So this is a legit question.

Okay. My question is, you said it's kind of a back and forth here. So he starts it and then it gives us this picture in the middle.

And then it's going back to the beginning. Why? Like for us to read it, we know that God wants us to understand his words. So for us who are maybe less intelligent than you we sit here and we go, all right, how do we, why does he structure it this way? Is there a reason for it? And if there is a reason, what is it? If there isn't a reason, how is it as we read? Obviously there needs to be study.

But is there things that we can pick up on that help us be able to distinguish these things more easily? If that makes sense. Well because we're not as intelligent as you think we are, so we might not know the answer. But what I can suggest is that I think when it comes to the Lord coming back as king, the prophet couldn't help but just go on and on and tell us of the glorious condition of the kingdom.

The destruction of the enemy is secondary now. So he goes on, he tells us what happens when he comes, what will happen to earth, what will happen to his people, what will happen to Jerusalem. Yes.

And what will happen in the elevation of Jerusalem, all the surrounding. He finishes that whole entire thing and says, all right, we do that as well. All right, oh, let's get back to the topic again.

What happened? Let me finish the story, he says. Let me tell you what happened to the enemy. Yes.

And then this will of course lead back again to the glorious elevation of Jerusalem as the capital of the world here. Nations will come. So he's always going back to how great Jerusalem will be.

So the destruction of enemies is just, well, all right, we have to tell you it's important, but let's get back to the glory of Jerusalem. So he comes back here, he goes by the enemy, and towards the end he's going to get back to Jerusalem again. You're happy with that, all right? Yes.

And it is a feature too when you come to the book of Revelation. You get previews looking to chapter 19, like chapter 1 even. Behold he cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him.

Right? That's going to happen in chapter 19. Then the sixth seal. They cried to the rocks in the mountains and so on.

The great day of his wrath has come. Chapter 19. The seventh trumpet.

Same thing. And yet there's seven more bowls to come. So it's like, this is what's going to happen, but how do we get there? Here's more detail.

And similar here. Even in a secular book, if you've got a a very dense plot, the writer will say, as you change chapter or whatever, meanwhile, back at the road, this is going on. That's right.

Meanwhile in Berlin, this is happening. What version are you? What Bible are you reading, Brian? That was the one you gave me. If the Virgin gave us that, it might be a little easier to understand where we were.

Now verse 14. And Judah shall fight at Jerusalem. Now remember, it says, if you remember chapter 12, there around, we have a similar thing, right? In verse 6, chapter 12.

In that day will I make the governance of Judah like a hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf. And they shall deliver all the people round about on the right hand, on the left. Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

The Lord shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David, and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, do not magnify themselves against Judah. Judah gets the priority. It is the tribe of the king.

And they will be also the heroes. And they will be empowered and equipped now to fight at the forefront. Judah shall fight at Jerusalem.

The result is this. The wealth of the hidden roundabout shall be gathered to gather gold and silver apparel in great abundance. In chapter 14, at the beginning, they were plundered.

And spoils are divided right in front of your eyes. Look at the reversal of fortune now. Now it is not they being plundered.

Now the gold and the silver and the richest of the nations have now been gathered in great abundance in Jerusalem. The plague, the plague that consumed men, will also consume. You see that answers your question.

He's going front, back, front, back. He keeps telling you how great Jerusalem will be. And oh, by the way, I'm going to tell you about the animals as well.

Not just the men. It is the plague. And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the sea.

And all the beasts shall be in these tents as this plague. And it shall come to pass that everyone that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year. Now I'm going to suggest to you, brethren, don't know what you think.

And it shall come to pass that everyone that is left, comma, sorry, that everyone that is left of all the nations. So the nations of that is left is referring to the nations, not the everyone. So the people that are in these nations that go against Jerusalem.

So there are believers in Iran, but it's Iran that goes against the nation of Israel and Jerusalem. But yet there are remnants, there are believers in Iran. And they, despite the fact, their country was guilty of fighting against Jerusalem.

But now they are citizens. Those that are remnant that believe, they now will, instead of opposing Jerusalem, will go up to Jerusalem year to year. What for? To worship the king, the lord of hosts, and to keep the feasts of tabernacles.

Now brethren, anything at this point. So implied in this then for these people from the nations implied is that the events of Matthew 25 have taken place. Yes.

The separation of the sheep and the goats. So it's those sheep. Yes.

Again, that have gone into millennial blessing. Right. That were converted in the tribulation period after the rapture.

Yes. Right. Those believers.

That's right. Go on into the kingdom. Yes.

Now the feast of tabernacles. Well, you thought that's Old Testament, but the feast will come back again in millennial conditions. So there will be the feast of tabernacles.

Why particularly the feast of tabernacles? Because in type, in picture, the feast of tabernacles was a foreshadowing of millennial reign and conditions. So they come back again, feast of commandments, the kingdom and ushered them into glory. And now on that day, they will come to worship the king.

Yes. I'm going to ask another question for clarity's sake. If we go back to what Ezekiel 45 reminds us of the feast of the new year, and it reminds us of the Passover feast as well.

Yes. You mentioned in that coming day, some of these things are going to come back. Why? Like we would say the breaking of bread is simply a memorial, but it's not the thing that saves us.

Whereas you go Old Testament, obviously it didn't save them, but it was something that was required, not in the sense of salvation today, but it was law that was required for them to have a right standing before God. So the feast coming back here, does it, is it in a different role than what you have in the Old Testament when we think of the feast? Yes. The feast of the old covenant was looking forward to a day not yet fulfilled for them.

I believe, and my brethren can help as well, I believe the feasts in this conditions are looking back to all that God and Christ had done for them. So it was like a memorial rather than an anticipation of what is to come. So it would be kind of their version of our breaking of bread, if you will.

Would that be a proper way of putting it in some ways? Some ways, yeah. But I think that they will finally enjoy and appreciate what the feast really means. Okay.

Where Christ in their midst, the temple will be there, there will be sacrifices, and there will be feasts, and they will look back to all the things that Christ had accomplished for them. Isn't it? Please. Isn't there a link? We could make a link here with John 7. It was the feast of the Jews, feast of tabernacles, but it had deteriorated.

And the Lord Jesus stood and cried, if any man thirst, let him come unto me. Right? Here's the fulfillment now linked in with the feast of tabernacles. They're coming up to meet with the Lord.

Come unto me. Go ahead, brother. I wonder where we just slightly conflating two things there.

When we're looking at the feasts of Jehovah, Leviticus chapter 23, that was both the annual cycle of festivals for the nation, wasn't it? But it was also from start to finish the panorama of the nation's history. It began with the Sabbath, and it ends with the Sabbath, eternity to eternity. And this is the final one of those.

So it would seem that in that sense, the order of the feasts has been complete, the feast of tabernacles. It's what was in view on the Mount of Transfiguration, wasn't it, when the Lord was transfigured before them there. But then a thing that often puzzles the Lord's people understandably is that there will also be the reinstitution of all the offerings of Leviticus one to seven.

And we might almost think, well, OK, we can quite see possibly the sweet savor offerings. But Ezekiel says specifically that the offerings for sin will be reintroduced. And so we read Hebrews and it says, but Christ has appeared once in the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

What's the whole point? Well, if I may suggest, the point is Israel is now a kingdom of priests for the first time ever in their history. They will understand the significance of those offerings. They've never the godliest of priests in the old days, never saw anything of Christ in them.

But now the nation will. And in the millennium, people born will be born with an Adamic nature. They will be sinners in need of salvation.

And isn't it wonderful that the nation will be able to present Christ in those memorial feasts? They're not there for the expiation of sin. That's all being done. But in one sense, as I imagine it, they'd be able to say, see that lovely man who's on the throne, who moves amongst his people, the one who ascends and descends from an open heaven to the earth with the angels surrounding him.

See that man. This is his story. And they're able to take you through those offerings and show you what Christ means to God and what he's done for the sinner and so forth.

So that's why it seems to me they are all reintroduced. I hope that's not too. Oh, no, that's good.

So over a thousand years when they were offering those sacrifices, they knew nothing of its meaning, nothing. But for 1000 years, they're going to do it again and they will know exactly what it is. Very good.

Now, this 17 onwards and it shall be there's going to be judgment if they refuse to go up, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth and Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. Families of Egypt do not go up, have no rain, and there shall be plague, wherewith the Lord will smite the hidden that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. Now, just remember what we said again, that in millennial conditions, there will be babies born, there will be unbelievers as well.

And there will be those who will not go up. And there will be those who will rebel, but they will have to pay the consequences. Now, you allow me to say democracy is a failed human system.

The one king system of Christ will ultimately be the political system, if I could use the word, that will be right for the world. One king, one judge, the only righteous one, the only fair king, and the only holy king of all the earth. And he will reign, and he will execute judgment.

And there will not be, he will not tolerate the hanky-pankys of men and funny things and the undertabled and all the things that men do, nothing will escape his eye. No nation will be able to plot in secret, everything will be known to him. And they will all pay homage to the king of all the earth.

And it says in verse number 20, in that day, there shall be upon the bells of the horses, holiness unto the Lord. Well, he said, I thought it was only in the holy sanctuary where the high priest wore holiness unto the Lord. Oh boy, the bells of horses, holiness unto the Lord.

So the vessels at home, holiness unto the Lord, the holiness of the Lord will pervade through the whole entire land. And even common things will be holiness unto the Lord. And all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them a seat.

And in that day, there shall be no more Canaanite. Now that's a difficult translation. It could be there could be no more merchant.

There will not be this. No unauthorized access. Yeah, no self-interest, no selfish, no selfish interests, no commercial interests in the house of the Lord.

He says, my house shall be the house of prayer. And you know, he saw things in the temple. But now in the house of the Lord, that day, there shall be no more Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.

So we learned from this that so-called recovered Edenic conditions, almost they're not going to be global. Yeah, there's going to be areas of the world where there is no rain. Yes.

Where those are exiled if they refused to rebel, if they refuse to acknowledge the right of the Lord Jesus to rule and to reign. That's why it has to reign with a rod of iron. Yes.

Because in one sense, in one sense, the millennium is the final assessment of what the problem is with man. Satan is bound. Satan gets the blame today for a lot that goes on in my own heart.

And when Satan is bound for a thousand years, men won't be able to blame him specifically. And we know he introduced it all at the beginning. But the problem lies here.

And the social engineer says today, take man out of a sink estate and put him in a nice, comfortable area and it'll change him. He's the product of his environment. Well, they're living in in a perfectly administered world and there's an abundance of all these things and they'll still rebel.

And the problem is here. Absolutely awful in the heart of man. It's man being tested again, isn't it? In ideal conditions, he's got nothing to blame.

It's desperately deceitful, hard, right? Different dispensation from our day. But man being tested even in the best of conditions will ultimately prove to be a failure. Just in that last verse, the pots and those things that are seethed therein in the house of the Lord, that was a feature of the sin offering, wasn't that? There was features of that that were boiled to be eaten by the priests.

So that's an endorsement of what you were saying about the sin offerings being reintroduced. Very good. Now, just one last point.

What do you think? Now, oftentimes the last few words of a book, the last words of the book, the last verse of the book is important. The last few two or three words of the book is also a very important thing. What do you think are the last few words of the book of Zechariah? In Hebrew.

In Hebrew. Not in English. In English is the Lord of Hosts.

I know that's important. What do you think are the last few words of the book of Zechariah? It is this. In that day.

All right. So it reads like this. And there shall be no more Canaanite in the house of the Lord of Hosts in that day.

Characteristic of the book of Zechariah. So that's a vista that's laying out before. That's right.

Very good. So as I close, thank you very much, brethren. Remember, what we have presently on earth will vanish.

What will last for eternity is other things that are done for the Lord. Amen. The reward is ahead.

The glory is ahead. And we are told we shall reign with him. Thank you very much for all your contribution.

Close in a word of prayer.