Examples for our instruction:

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1 Corinthians 10:11 What happened to your forefathers are examples and were recorded as warnings for us, on whom the end of the ages has come.

Zechariah 2:1-5 I looked and saw a man measuring Jerusalem. It will be a city without walls because of the great number of people and livestock within it. The Lord says; I, Myself will be a wall of fire around it and a Glorious Presence within it.

Although it has usually been assumed that these verses apply to the Millennium period; a careful study of the context and matching passages, especially Ezekiel chapters 40 to 48 and Ezekiel 38:8 & 11, shows that all this will happen before the Return of Jesus.

Zechariah 2:6-9 Come away, flee from the land of the North, flee from your dispersion around the world. The Lord says: Escape from Babylon, you people of Zion. My mission is to speak out against those nations that have plundered you, that ‘have touched the apple of His eye’. He will surely raise His hand against them and their former slaves will plunder them.

As soon as the time period decreed for the exile of Israel [2730 years] and Judah [1960 years] is completed, Ezekiel 4:4-6,the Lord will call them out of Babylon.

First Exodus: Egypt, Second Exodus: “Babylon”, a metaphor for all the godless nations. He will punish those who caused trouble to His faithful peoples and they will take goods and treasure back to the Land with them. Exodus 12:35-36

 

Zechariah 2:10-12 Shout and be glad, people of Zion, for the Lord is coming and He will dwell among you. Many nations will give their allegiance to Him on that Day and you will know that I have brought His message to you. He will claim the portion of Judah in the Holy Land and will again make Jerusalem His city.

‘The Lord is coming, He will dwell among you’. This will happen first with the Shekinah glory in the new Temple, Ezekiel 43:1-4, then later, at the Return of Jesus.

‘Many nations’, not the whole world, as it will be after the Return. Revelation 15:4

‘Jerusalem, His city’, This will be completely fulfilled at the end of the Millennium. Revelation 21:1-4

 

Zechariah 2:13 Let all mortals be silent, because the Lord has roused Himself and come down from His holy dwelling place.  Isaiah 28:21

This refers to the next prophesied event – the Lord’s Day of vengeance and wrath, a worldwide judgement of fire against His enemies. Revelation 6:12-17

Zechariah 3:9-10 In a single Day, I will wipe away the guilt of this Land. On that Day, you will call everyone your neighbour, under the vine and under the fig tree.

Israel – the vine, Judah – the fig tree, rejoined at last. Ezekiel 37:15-23, Isaiah 5:7

This time, the Lord will help His people by destroying their enemies in a single Day. From this and other prophecies, we know that this will be done by a Coronal Mass Ejection, an earth directed explosion of the suns surface.

Jeremiah 25:30-31 The Lord roars from on high, from His dwelling place, against all the inhabitants of the Land. The noise reaches the ends of the earth as He brings judgement against all the nations and the wicked peoples will be killed.

Reference: REB, NIV, KJV. Some verses abridged.

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