Opening Verse

Zechariah 14:9 English Standard Version (ESV) And the Lord will be king over all the earth. On that day the Lord will be one and his name one.

This is the verse of the day from biblegateway.com for June 30th, 2020. Did this verse stir up memory or curiosity? Did it comfort you or create longing? What led up to the Lord being king over all the earth? Is He not the King on the throne of heaven? What is to be learned here?

Many questions here. Which ones are yours and what is the answer you are looking forward to hearing?

Zechariah 14:1 English Standard Version (ESV)

The Coming Day of the Lord

Behold, a day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst.

Here is the opening verse for chapter 14 and I want to point out a couple of things offhand. This day is coming for the Lord, it is the day the Lord has been waiting on all this time. If you remember in Matthew 24:36 Jesus declared that no one knew when this day would come, not even the angels. Zechariah declares it is coming but does not say when.

The second item in the verse is about lost spoils being returned. That is a tricky subject because it holds relevant meaning to the people being spoken about. It is not the people of Zechariah’s time nor a people of today, unless the Lord should come today. It is a people living in the future that would have a claim to make.

How can we make a claim upon anything belonging to a people and time of which we are not a part? Try as we might, we cannot place ourselves in their shoes because what will happen between now and then can and probably will define those spoils.

What is in it for us?

Zechariah 14:5c English Standard Version (ESV)

…. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.[a]

Footnotes: a. Other Hebrew manuscripts you