I was asked once by a friend to come to his house with him and his wife and participate in a Bible study. I showed up, but it was actually his parent's house. And his brother and his wife were there too. What he actually planned for me to do was to do a Bible study with them because God had sent me to him to answer to Bible questions he was struggling with, and we had never ever met before.
However, after talking with them all for a little while, I discovered that my friend's parents were attending a non-Pre-trib Rapture Church, while he and his brother were both attending a Pre-trib Rapture Church. So I asked them to turn to the Zechariah 14 Chapter, and the following is what I showed them...
Zech 14:1-9
14 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
The subject timing? The "day of the Lord", which is the LAST DAY of this present world time. And we know... for sure that is the last day of this world, simply because of 2 Peter 3:10 where Peter said man's works will be destroyed on that day by God's consuming fire, which has to mean the last day of this world. It is also the same day when Apostle Paul showed in 1 Thessalonians 5 that the "sudden destruction" will happen upon the wicked and deceived.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
That "day of the Lord" is when the battle of Armageddon of Revelation 16 on the 7th Vial speaks of, will happen. It is the Ezekiel 38 & 39 battle of the armies out of the northern quarters coming upon Israel on the last day of this world.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when He fought in the day of battle.
That is also showing on that "day of the Lord", it is the day of Christ's future return, to fight against those armies that will come upon Israel on the last day of this world.
4 And His feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
That is about the feet of Lord Jesus standing on the Mount of Olives east of Jerusalem, ON EARTH, on that "day of the Lord" at His future return. The Mount of Olives is going to be parted towards the east and the west when that happens, forming a great valley there.
5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with Thee.
And there it is, THAT is about Christ's gathering of His elect saints with Him there on earth.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
Remember that Lord Jesus said no man knows the day nor the hour of His coming, but The Father only (Matthew 24:36). And in that Matthew 24:36 Scripture, Jesus was talking about the day of His coming to gather His saints after the tribulation, which is detailed in the previous Matthew 24:29-31 verses.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
That is about the manifesting of God's River of the Waters of Life back on earth. It used to be here on earth at one time, per Genesis 2, remember?
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and His name one.
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Then Jesus will be KING over all nations and peoples on earth. That means this earth isn't going to be completely destroyed on that "day of the Lord", but that its surface only is going to be cleansed of man's works, just like what the flood of Noah did, except this next time using God's 'consuming fire' (2 Peter 3:10).
Zech 14:16-19
16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Then after Jesus returns with His elect there upon the Mount of Olives east of Jerusalem, those of the nations (PLURAL) which came up against Jerusalem on the last day of this world that were not... destroyed, will be made to bow to Jesus, and come up to worship Him and keep the feast of tabernacles, from year to year which points to the "thousand years" Millennium period of Jesus' reign with the "rod of iron" per Revelation 20.
17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
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Do you think my friend and his family understood all this?? Not a bit! Why? Because they had been listening to the doctrines of men instead of studying and reading their Bible for theirselves with asking God's help in understanding. Maybe later they went back and went through that Zechariah 14 Chapter for theirselves, but I can guarantee they probably first went and asked their Pre-trib Rapture pastor about it, and he simply brushed it off as already past history! Likewise my friend's parents probably did the same, asked their Preterist system pastor and he probably said it was all history too!
So like Jesus warned...
Luke 8:18
18 Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.
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