Zechariah 14:17

"It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of Armies, and to keep the feast of booths."

Key Reflection

This verse suggests a future time when those who survive after Jerusalem's trials will annually journey to worship God in Jerusalem, symbolizing their submission to divine authority and participation in communal rituals that signify covenant faithfulness. It points towards a period of global spiritual awakening and obedience centered around the city of Jerusalem and its king, Jesus Christ.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Whoso will not go up -Cyril: “To those who ‘go not up,’” he threatens the same punishment as persecutors would endure. For enemies, and they who will not love, shall have the same lot. This is, I think, what Christ Himself said, ‘Whoso is not with Me is against Me, and whoso gathereth not with Me scattereth’Luke 11:23.” Upon them there shall be no rain -Rain was the most essential of God’s temporal gifts for the temporal well-being of His people. Moses marked out this, as his people were entering on the promised land, with recent memory of Egypt’s independence of rain in Egypt itself, and that this gift depended on obedience.

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