Zechariah 14 was once confusing in the past and I still don't know

edited August 2013 in Faith Issues
Zechariah 14 was once confusing in the past and I still don't know what it is saying. I thought when the Messiah comes he will be aggressive as this passage suggests which made me think Jesus may not have been the Christ but that description seems to fit the antichrist. What exactly is this passage saying? has this event already happened in history? does God force people to convert by sword as this passage seems to suggest? some of this passage also seems to suggest God will dwell on the earth and bring a universal reign of gathering all the nations to worship Him on earth by punishing those who won't and so will force them through fear. Or maybe it was another passage that suggested this I can not find it. But it was in the Bible I know. I think this is the one.
Christianity spread by the sword of the gospel and the sword of God's intervention on those who wilfully rejected Him but never by the sword of man. I am not having doubts about Jesus. Its just I thought there is not many resources for this passage I don't know why people don't take an interest
This passage or another passage (I think it is this one) also made me think maybe Jesus would make a second coming on earth but I know that is wrong Jesus said He will return in the sky and He said His kingdom is not of this world it is clear from Daniel that the Messiah's kingdom is not of this world
I thought the Antichrist will be a Jew from the tribe of Dan as the Jews will receive him is there any scripture which supports this?

Daniel 11:37
New King James Version (NKJV)
37 He shall regard neither the God[a] of his fathers nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall exalt himself above them all.

Does that imply he is to be a jew?

Zechariah 14
New King James Version (NKJV)
The Day of the Lord

14 Behold, the day of the Lord is coming,
And your spoil will be divided in your midst.
2 For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem;
The city shall be taken,
The houses rifled,
And the women ravished.
Half of the city shall go into captivity,
But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then the Lord will go forth
And fight against those nations,
As He fights in the day of battle.

4 And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives,
Which faces Jerusalem on the east.
And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two,
From east to west,
Making a very large valley;
Half of the mountain shall move toward the north
And half of it toward the south.
5 Then you shall flee through My mountain valley,
For the mountain valley shall reach to Azal.
Yes, you shall flee
As you fled from the earthquake
In the days of Uzziah king of Judah.
Thus the Lord my God will come,
And all the saints with You.[a]
6 It shall come to pass in that day
That there will be no light;
The lights will diminish.
7 It shall be one day
Which is known to the Lord—
Neither day nor night.
But at evening time it shall happen
That it will be light.
8 And in that day it shall be
That living waters shall flow from Jerusalem,
Half of them toward the eastern sea
And half of them toward the western sea;
In both summer and winter it shall occur.
9 And the Lord shall be King over all the earth.
In that day it shall be—
“The Lord is one,”
And His name one.
10 All the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem[c] shall be raised up and inhabited in her place from Benjamin’s Gate to the place of the First Gate and the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses.

11 The people shall dwell in it;
And no longer shall there be utter destruction,
But Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
12 And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem:

Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet,
Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets,
And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.
13 It shall come to pass in that day
That a great panic from the Lord will be among them.
Everyone will seize the hand of his neighbor,
And raise his hand against his neighbor’s hand;
14 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem.
And the wealth of all the surrounding nations
Shall be gathered together:
Gold, silver, and apparel in great abundance.
15 Such also shall be the plague
On the horse and the mule,
On the camel and the donkey,
And on all the cattle that will be in those camps.
So shall this plague be.

The Nations Worship the King

16 And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 17 And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain. 18 If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

20 In that day “HOLINESS TO THE LORD” shall be engraved on the bells of the horses. The pots in the Lord’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar. 21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holiness to the Lord of hosts.[d] Everyone who sacrifices shall come and take them and cook in them. In that day there shall no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.

Comments

  • I also thought Jesus may be the antichrist because of this verse. Jesus abolished the old testament sacrifices

    Daniel 8:11 He even exalted himself as high as the Prince of the host; and by him the daily sacrifices were taken away, and the place of His sanctuary was cast down.

    But this was with regard to the end and 2000 years past and the end did not come

    Now I also want to ask what is it saying? Jerusalem is mostly not orthodox and the antichrist will be in jerusalem so what sacrifices will he take away since the eucharist is only in orthodox and catholic churches
    It seems to be suggesting he will take away permission to pray to Jesus or God?
    but that does not seem like what the scripture is saying because it is implying it is a physical thing. So will Jerusalem have christianity firmly preached by the end with a presence?

    Also it was written in Daniel the kingdom will be given to the saints by that the Jews understood themselves which will not pass away so I thought the messiah will have an earthly kingdom which will not pass away but it makes no sense to rule on earth and then in heaven afterwards and it is the Son of Man that is given the kingdom and to be the ruler of the kingdom who is distinct from the Ancient of Days


    Dear minagir I have kept in mind not to flood tasbeha with my thoughts (since I can not force people to care what I have to say or make them listen to junk) and only when I have questions since I have too many questions I will try extremely hard not to ask many questions here but put it on my blog or somewhere else appropriate








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