Covenant Reformed News – February 2019 • Volume XVII, Issue 10
This article continues a multi-part series examining Zechariah 14:1-15, specifically focusing on the splitting and movement of the Mount of Olives as a sign preceding Christ's return and the establishment of the new creation. The author provides detailed exegetical analysis of the passage, explaining the physical transformations described and their theological purpose in facilitating the flight of God's people during the eschatalogical events.
Zechariah’s Day of the Lord (4) In the first instalment of “Zechariah’s Day of the Lord,” we proved that Zechariah 14:1-15 “predicts Christ’s bodily return, including events that immediately precede it, and the new heavens and the new earth that it ushers in.” The next two issues identified and explained three topics in Zechariah 14:1-15: the plundered city (the equivalent of the great tribulation), the coming God (that is, “that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and...