The Lord Returns to the Mount of Olives
Zechariah portrays the Lord standing on the Mount of Olives, transforming the landscape, and becoming king over all the earth.
Zechariah 14:3–9
3Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4¶ And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which [is] before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, [and there shall be] a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
5And ye shall flee [to] the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, [and] all the saints with thee.
6And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the light shall not be clear, [nor] dark:
7But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, [that] at evening time it shall be light.
8And it shall be in that day, [that] living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
The prophetic text and its New Testament horizon
Sources & further reading
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4Q Minor Prophets
Israel Antiquities AuthorityOfficial collection record for an ancient manuscript witness to this Old Testament book. It supports the text’s antiquity and transmission context, not the claimed fulfillment by itself.
Related archaeology: 4Q Minor Prophets (4Q82)
Watchman 33 Archaeological EvidenceResearch dossier for the manuscript cited above, including its identification, preserved text, provenance, scholarly sources, and interpretive limits.
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