Covenant Reformed News – December 2018 • Volume XVII, Issue 8
This article from Covenant Reformed News provides an exegetical analysis of Zechariah 14:1-15, examining the sequence of events in the prophet's vision of the Day of the Lord and identifying it with the Great Tribulation preceding Christ's return. The author employs Reformed hermeneutical principles to distinguish between the textual order and chronological order of the passage, demonstrating how the fall of Jerusalem to Rome in AD 70 serves as a type for the future persecution of the church by the worldwide kingdom of the beast.
Zechariah’s Day of the Lord (2) This is the sequence of events in the battle between the two earthly parties in Zechariah 14:1-15. First, all the nations are gathered together to fight against Jerusalem, with the tents of their camp, their beasts of burden and their war beasts (15). Then the battle proper commences and Jerusalem falls, with all the customary slaughter and pillage: the looting of houses, the taking of captives, the dividing of plunder, etc. (1-2). After the opening words of...