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Zechariah 14:1-12
1 Behold, the day of the LORD is coming,
2 For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem;
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.
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.
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Zechariah 14's chapter is part of a complete prophecy for Israel, starting from Zechariah's chapters 12 through 14, when both Judah and the city of Jerusalem would be undergoing a siege against themselves (Zech. 12:2). This took place back in the AD 66-70 period. Judah as the "lawgiver" tribe with its "governors of Judah" would still be active in this prophecy (Zech. 12:4-7, and 14:14).
HINT: there has been no intact "lawgiver" tribe of Judah governing anything since AD 70 when the tribes lost their genealogies by the Zealots themselves burning up Jerusalem's archived records.
According to the dying Jacob's prophecy in Genesis 49:10, Judah was to hold governing sway over the rest of the tribes
"UNTIL SHILOH COME" (which was Christ), with the "gathering of the people" unto Him in a bodily resurrection. Since the tribe of Judah and its governing influence disappeared by the close of the AD 70 "siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem" (Zech. 12:2), we can deduce that "Shiloh" / Christ already came back then, and gathered the people unto Himself in a bodily resurrection event.
All the nations gathered against Jerusalem in the AD 66-70 years. Competing Zealot factions coming from "Galilee of the GENTILES" besieged their own city of Jerusalem during those 42 months when they trod underfoot the formerly "holy city" of Jerusalem (Rev. 11:2). God fought against those "nations" by destroying them with His own armies (the Roman armies which finally came to tear down the city's buildings and its temple to the last stone, and to defeat the Zealot factions in Jerusalem who had opposed them).
The "plague" of Zech. 14:12 which consumed those competing Zealot armies inside Jerusalem was
the sudden onslaught of starvation in the spring of AD 70. The competing Zealot factions themselves burned up Jerusalem's own stored grain supplies. People besieged in Jerusalem almost immediately started dying by the cartload after that, with many of their bodies being dumped over the walls into the Hinnom Valley (Gehenna).
It was in AD 70 on that year's Pentecost Day (predicted as Daniel 12:11-13's 1,335th day) when Christ returned to stand on the Mount of Olives and gather all His resurrected saints unto Himself and return to heaven. An earthquake marked the occasion, when the crest of the Mount of Olives broke apart with the resulting landslide rubble falling downhill to "block up" the Kidron Valley as far as Azal, just as happened once before in King Uzziah's days. That layer of landslide rubble is still lying in the Kidron Valley today, archaeologically dated to the AD 70 period.
