He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men.”…”And will not God bring about justice for His chosen ones, who cry out to Him day and night?” Luke 18:2, 7.

For to everyone who asks and keeps on asking receives; and he who seeks and keeps on seeking finds; and to him who knocks and keeps on knocking, the door shall be opened. Luke 11:10 AMP.

“But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds,” declares the Lord, “because you are called an outcast, Zion for whom no one cares.” Jeremiah 30:17.

And now our chapter, Zechariah 14, the final chapter in the book of Zechariah. It speaks to the certainty that Jesus, the Son, will return. A day of the Lord is coming, Jerusalem, when your possessions will be plundered and divided up within your very walls. I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city. Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as He fights on a day of battle. On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the 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. You will flee by My mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with Him. On that day there will be neither sunlight nor cold, frosty darkness. It will be a unique day – a day known only to the Lord – with no distinction between day and night. When evening comes, there will be light. On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it east to the Dead Sea and half of it west to the Mediterranean Sea, in summer and in winter. The Lord will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one Lord, and His name the only name. v. 1-9. Can you imagine? And Creator God – Father, Son, Spirit, will raise up Jerusalem, never to be destroyed again, v. 10-11. You would think with all of this, that everyone would stop and wonder and want to understand, but what we believe is so ingrained in us, we can’t see. This is the plague with which the Lord will strike all the nations that fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths. On that day people will be stricken with great panic. They will seize each other by the hand and attack one another. Judah too will fight at Jerusalem…A similar plague will strike the horses and mules, the camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps. v. 12-15. And after that…Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, they will have no rain….On that day HOLY TO THE Lord will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the Lord’s house will be like the sacred bowls in front of the altar. v. 16-17, 20. In the notes below it said that all the Festivals have been fulfilled in Jesus, the Son. He was our Passover Lamb who took away the sins of the world, His death atoned for our sins, the First Fruits was His resurrection with ours yet to come, Pentecost was fulfilled when the Father poured out His Spirit on all believers gathered after Jesus was raised to new life, and the Feast of Tabernacles is an ongoing Festival of Thanksgiving for the gathering in of all God’s children, dearly loved.

Can you imagine hearing these words from Zechariah, or any of the prophets then? How could they imagine the nations coming together to worship the Lord? The temple had been rebuilt but was not as large nor as splendid as the one Solomon built. And it, too, would be destroyed, in 70 A.D. Jesus didn’t return in 70 A.D. But the work He was doing was going out in hearts turned to Him. It is going out still. We today have had over 2,000 years since Jesus was taken up to be with the Father; and our understanding has grown and changed just as surely as the way of life has grown and changed over that time. There will be ships in the Mediterranean and planes flying when the events described above happen. There will be wars ongoing. Nations will be in upheaval just as they are today. The rebellions we see today show us how people will not accept Jesus, the Son, when He returns. So the question for every single person then, now, and until Jesus returns, is, will you trust Creator God? Will you look to Him for understanding this world cannot give because it does not have understanding? Will you let the Lord prepare your heart to receive Him? This world is a minefield of confusion and hate and intolerance. Jesus didn’t go into Jerusalem the week before His crucifixion with a grand military parade. He went resolved to show all of us His love for His Father who loves us, His children. He went to show the ultimate Sacrifice. As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Now remain in My love. If you keep My commands, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commands and remain in His love. I have told you this so that My joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are My friends if you do what I command…This is My command: Love each other. John 15:9-14, 17.