Zechariah 14 Commentary
Zechariah sticks to his usual complex style. Many thoughts are combined in short packs of information. Verses 1 and 2 are very important because they announce yet another attack on Jerusalem and another exile. Between Zechariah’s time and our time, several things have happened in Jerusalem that may fit Zechariah’s prophecy.
But check verse 7 and see how the LORD Jesus Christ pastes this information in his speech to the disciples! “When this will happen is known only to the LORD”
The reference to the reign of the LORD God over the entire earth may directly point to the Son’s government.
Fresh water flowing from Jerusalem may be likened to the living water that the LORD Jesus Christ claimed to offer. And it isn’t a stupid suggestion at all! After all, as some have suggested, the end times commence with the first coming of the Son.
But the fact that the LORD Jesus Christ talks of yet another unknown day means we can expect more dramatic events after the first coming. Importantly, we can take note of the fact that the LORD fights and secures Jerusalem – whatever the prophet means by Jerusalem!
The end times are not marked by one sharply defined event. There are battles which the LORD wins!
Zechariah is like one short sentence with several tenses, verbs, commas, and importantly, question marks. The book leaves behind holes that the reader wants to fill. You fill them with the New Testament as we find several references to these writings in the gospels.
Thirty pieces of silver as payment for the good Shepherd, mourning for the one they pierced, strike the Shepherd and the sheep will be scattered, these and several other references make you feel like you are listening to the Jerusalem news channel during the time of the LORD Jesus Christ. But we have more than 400 hundred years in between!
And beyond the 30 years of Jesus’ earthly pilgrimage, Zechariah has all sorts of information running all the way to the final settlement of all things.
Yes, these events, but the prophet has words for his own generation. Let the temple be built. Show commitment and trust the LORD as the real builder. Zerubbabel’s feeble hands may be on the job but despise not the small beginnings. “What art thou O great mountain?” Chapter 4. Isn’t the saint encouraged to know that the LORD scorns what we think are great mountains? And to add salt to the injury, the LORD mocks the enemy by letting the feeble hands of the saint do the job! What a lovely book!
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