Our Daily Scripture – 2/22/25 (Saturday)

SCRIPTURE:  ZECHARIAH 14 

THE LORD COMES AND REIGNS (vs. 1-21)

SIGNS WHEN THE LORD WILL COME:

  1.  Plundered will be divided. (v. 12)
  2.  All nations will fight against Jerusalem.  The city will be captured, houses ransacked and the women raped.  1/2 of the city will go into exile. (v. 2)
  3.  The Lord will fight against the nations. (v. 3)
  4.  God will stand on the Mount of Olives, and Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south. (v. 4)
  5.  They will flee by the mountain valley extended to Azel. (v. 5)
  6.  There will be no light, no cold or frost, without daytime or night time. (v. 6)
  7.  Living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half to the eastern sea and half to the western sea in summer and in winter. (v. 8)
  8.  The Lord will be king over the whole earth.  There will be one Lord and his name the only name. (v. 9)
  9.  Jerusalem will be raised up and remain in its place from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate to the Corner Gate and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses. (v. 10)
  10.  Jerusalem will be inhabited, secured, and never again will it be destroyed. (v. 11)
  11.  The Lord will strike all nations that fought against Jerusalem with plague. (v. 12)
  12.  There will be great panic among the people each man seizing the hand of another and attack each other. (v. 13)
  13.  Judah will fight at Jerusalem with the surrounding nations and collect their gold, silver and clothing. (v. 14)
  14.  A plague will strike the horses and mules, the camels and donkeys and all the animals in those camps. (v. 15)
  15.  Survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty ands to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacle. (v. 16)
  16.  Those who do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King will have no rain. (v. 17)
  17.  Plague will inflict on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. (v. 18)
  18.  On that day HOLY TO THE LORD will be inscribed on the bells to the horses and the cooking pots in the Lord’s house will be like the sacred bowls in from of the altar. (v. 20)
  19.  Every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the Lord Almighty and all who come to sacrifice will take some of the pots and cook in them. (v. 21a)
  20.  There will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord Almighty. (v. 21b)

THOUGHTS:

On that day, all nations of the world will gather against Jerusalem called the Battle of Armageddon.  God’s power will be shown.  He will make changes in the heaven and the earth and send a plague to destroy the enemy.  He will cause a river to flow that will return and refresh the land.  The Lord shall be king over all the earth.  The nations will worship the King.  No one can defile God’s holy temple.  They will celebrated the Feast of Tabernacle with joy.  The kingdom age will be a time of holiness and happiness in worshiping and serving the Lord.  Jerusalem will be honored as the City of God and the focal point of all the world’s worship, showing the supremacy of God.  God will fulfill the people’s dream for Jerusalem beyond what they can image.

As we walk with God, we will also discover that God will do much more for us than we can imagine.  Our hope is in God, the Messiah who is in complete of the world.