That's maybe one of you major assumptions that rules your thoughts...your 'Day of the Lord' as a one time action and one event. This expression is used for multiple ideas in scripture...Automatic Grade F. When you brought in the Maccabean wars history that was around 160 B.C. till..., you LEFT the Biblical subject of the "day of the Lord", which is ONLY for the very END this present world:
So I don't care if Albert Einstein himself researched the Macabean wars, the doctrine of men you espouse against the "day of the Lord" event for the END leaves God's written Word.
Let me go on in Zechariah again if you do not have an objection?...(rhetorical)
Zechariah in Chapter 14:4 pointed to a dual prophecy: The actual splitting of the Mount of Olives as I've already mentioned during the times of the Maccabean Was and also when Christ died on the Cross.
Some if not many scholars believe that Christ was crucified on the mount of Olives directly in line of sight with the east gate of the Temple in Jerusalem opposite of the mount of Olives on Mount Zion. So when Christ gave up his own spirit, the veil of the Temple was split as recorded in Matt 27:51. Even if the place of death was not exactly on this Mount, the earthquake was sufficiently extensive to further divide the Mount of Olives across the East West direction.
Zechariah 14..
Verse 9...when Christ died on the Cross and was resurrected and ascended into heaven, he became the only ONE true King of this world.
Verse 11: Jerusalem will always be inhabited henceforth. A triple prophecy of the physical destruction and plundering of Jerusalem during the 2nd Century BC and when it was utterly destroyed by 70AD, by the Roman army. And then later inhabited, or occupied, although never by the ethnic house of Israel anymore.
The New Jerusalem since Christ as King is scheduled to be inhabited by the Body of Christ when the King returns to bring them home. The Body of the King are its true inhabitants, the true Israel of the New Jerusalem. They will never leave.
Verse 12 addresses at least Antiochus Epiphanies, who died from a disease that caused his flesh to rot off.
Verse 14: the Maccabees (Machabees) or Judahite rebels seized vast amounts of plunder.
Verses 16-19: the Judahites are called to hold to the Feast of Tabernacles. And a new Feast of Tabernacles was instituted during the Maccabean Wars to celebrate the miracle that occurred at the rededication of the Temple. Called the Feast of Tabernacles in the 'Book of Maccabees,' and better known as the holiday today as Hanukah. The Judahites in Egypt were to continue to celebrate this new Feast of Tabernacles.
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