Covenant Reformed News – April 2019 • Volume XVII, Issue 12
This article continues a detailed exegetical series on Zechariah 14:1-15, specifically examining the theme of living waters flowing from Jerusalem as a symbol of Christ's second coming and the new creation. The author connects Zechariah's vision to related Old Testament prophecies from Joel and Ezekiel, demonstrating how Reformed theology interprets eschatological water imagery as pointing to Christ's glorious future kingdom and salvation for His elect church.
Zechariah’s Day of the Lord (6) The first article on “Zechariah’s Day of the Lord” (Zech. 14:1-15) proved that these fifteen verses predict Christ’s second coming, including events that immediately precede it and the new creation that it ushers in. In the next four instalments, we treated four of the six main themes in this passage: the plundered city (1-2), the coming God (1, 3, 5), the holy war (3, 12-15) and the movements of Judah’s mountains (4-5, 10-11). Now we will cover one of the...