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Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Zechariah 14:1-3

Zechariah 14:1-3And thy spoil shall be divided A sketch on bad menThree facts concerning such.I. They are capable of perpetrating the greatest enormities on their fellow men. In the account given by Josephus of the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans we have a record of enormities at which we might stand aghast. The particulars, says Dr. Wardlaw, here noted are such as usually, it might be said, invariably attend the besieging, the capture, and the sacking of cities; especially when, as in... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Zechariah 14:4-5

Zechariah 14:4-5And His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives God in relation to a suffering worldThe men in Jerusalem were in great suffering and imminent peril, and here is a figurative representation of the Almighty in relation to them.I. He observes their terrible condition. “And His feet shall stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east.” The idea suggested here is that God observes men in all their calamities and dangers. His eye is on... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Zechariah 14:6

Zechariah 14:6It shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear nor dark The day of the LordThis phrase denotes not one time, but many.Any signal manifestation of the Divine government of the world, or any such event as made men’s hearts quake within them for fear, is described as the day of the Lord. Though all nature is, in truth, an exponent of the judgment, as well as the beneficence of God, there are times and places in which His right hand, as it were, is more... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Zechariah 14:7

Zechariah 14:7At evening time it shall be light Aged people’s serviceNature’s sunset is beautiful, so beautiful that every painter strives in vain to catch it and give it permanence on his canvas.But the sunset of life transcends it; as the reality always transcends the type, as the spiritual always transcends the material, as the heavenly always transcends the earthly. What is there more beautiful in itself, what more interesting to contemplate than snowy age sustained by a living faith, and... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Zechariah 14:8

Zechariah 14:8Living waters shall go out from Jerusalem The living watersLike all his predecessors, Zechariah speaks much of Christ.Some of his prophecies, owing partly to the predominance of figurative and symbolical language, are difficult and obscure. In the text he refers to Gospel days and to the Gospel blessings. He speaks of the Gospel under the figure of living, springing, running waters; and under this figure he indicates to us the beginning, the progressive course, and the perpetual... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Zechariah 14:9

Zechariah 14:9The Lord shall be King over all the earth The Second Advent of ChristThat the passage Job 19:25-27 has reference to Jesus Christ, and to His coming to judgment at the last great day, I think there can be no dispute.Unless, then, we look to the reappearing of the Son of Man upon this earth, we stultify the expectation of the patriarch, we impugn the inspiration of his prophecy, virtually esteeming his declaration as little better than words of a mere sound. That we may arrive at... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Zechariah 14:12-14

Zechariah 14:12-14And this shall be the plague The punishment of God’s enemiesThis is a figurative description of the punishment of sin.The first element of the punishment is corruption, which is set forth by the terrible image of a living death, a fearful anomalous state, in which the mouldy rottenness of death is combined in horrible union with the vivid, conscious sensibility of life. The soul of the sinner, in its future consciousness of sin, shall feel its loathsome corruption as vividly... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Zechariah 14:16

Zechariah 14:16Shall go up from year to year to worship the King.The genius and inner heart of Christianity1. It brings us into the possession of a new life. We are Christians, not because we avow a certain creed, or conform to certain outward exercises; but because we have received the life, the Eternal Life, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us in Jesus. And is it possible to restrict the manifestations of life? Is not God's life always the same in its abundant and infinite... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Zechariah 14:20-21

Zechariah 14:20-21In that day there shall be upon the bells of the horses, Holiness unto the Lord Universal holinessThis text may be a prediction of the latter-day glory, when the knowledge of Christ shall cover the whole earth.But at all times, and in all places, “holiness becometh the house of the Lord.” It is His royal will and pleasure that all who name His name should depart from all iniquity. This holiness, which we call universal holiness, because it extends to the whole man, and to his... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Zechariah 14:1

Zec 14:1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. Ver. 1. Behold, the day of the Lord cometh ] Jerusalem had her day, and knew it not, Luke 19:42 (Jerusalem was not Jerusalem, the vision of peace saw not the things that belonged to her peace); God therefore will have his day of vengeance, as she had of visitation. He hath his season, his harvest for judgment, Matthew 13:30 ; and when wickedness is ripe in the field he will allow it to grow no... read more

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