Zechariah 14:1-4 “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.”
There will be a war in which the armies of the Anti-Christ will defeat the Israeli army. The above passage of scripture gives us a vivid account of what will take place in the city of Jerusalem during that war. Obviously, what will happen in Jerusalem will also happen throughout Israel during that time. When the scripture says that the “remnant of the people” will not be cut off from the city it is referring to the Lord’s saints, for they are the remnant (Romans 11:5). The reason that they will not be cut off from the city is because they would have already left the city, and so will not experience the tragedy that will befall the rest of the Jews in the city. The very next verse of scripture in this passage describes the battle of Armageddon that will take place when our Lord Jesus returns to take vengeance on the people of the fourth kingdom that invaded the nation of Israel.
Michael E.B. Maher
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