Coming to the Mount of Olives

14 Behold, a day of Adonai is coming when your plunder will be divided in your midst. ² I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to wage war. The city shall be captured, the houses ransacked and the women ravished. Half of the city will be exiled but the remainder of the people will not be cut off from the city. ³ Then Adonai will go forth and fight against those nations as He fights in a day of battle. ⁴ In that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which lies to the east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a huge valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north and half of it toward the south. ⁵ Then you will flee through My mountain valley because the mountain valley will reach to Azel. Yes, you will flee like you fled from the earthquake in the days of King Uzziah of Judah. Then Adonai my God will come and all the kedoshim with Him.^[a]

⁶ In that day there will be no light, cold or frost. ⁷ It will be a day known only to Adonai, neither day nor night—even in the evening time there will be light. ^{[b] 8} Moreover, in that day living waters will flow from Jerusalem, half toward the eastern sea and half toward the western sea, both in the summer and in the winter. ^{[c] 9} Adonai will then be King over all the earth. In that day Adonai will be Echad and His Name Echad.^[d]

¹⁰ The whole land, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem, will become like the Arabah. Jerusalem will be raised up and occupy her place, from the Benjamin Gate to the place of the First Gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses. ¹¹ People will dwell in her, and no longer will there be a ban of destruction—Jerusalem will live in security.

¹² Now this is the plague with which Adonai will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are standing on their feet; their eyes will rot in their sockets; and their tongues will rot in their mouths. ¹³ It will happen in that day that a great panic from Adonai will be among them. Each person will seize the hand of his neighbor and they will attack each other. ¹⁴ Even Judah will fight at Jerusalem. The wealth of all the surrounding peoples will be gathered together—an abundance of gold, silver and apparel. ¹⁵ A similar plague will strike the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey and all the animals in that camp.

¹⁶ Then all the survivors from all the nations that attacked Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Adonai-Tzva’ot, and to celebrate Sukkot. ¹⁷ Furthermore, if any of the nations on earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Adonai-Tzva’ot, they will have no rain. ¹⁸ If the Egyptians do not go up and celebrate, they will have no rain. Instead, there will be the plague that Adonai will inflict on the nations that do not go up to celebrate Sukkot. ¹⁹ This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate Sukkot. ²⁰ In that day “Holy to Adonai” will be inscribed on the bells of the horses and the pots in House of Adonai will be like the sacred bowls in front of the altar. ²¹ In fact every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be Holy to Adonai-Tzva’ot, so that everyone who comes to sacrifice will take them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite^[e] in the House of Adonai-Tzva’ot.^[f]

The First Resurrection

20 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss and a great chain. ² He seized the dragon—the ancient serpent, who is the devil and satan—and bound him for a thousand years. ^{[a] 3} He also threw him into the abyss and locked and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed. After these things, he must be released for a short while.

⁴ Then I saw thrones, and people sat upon them—those to whom authority to judge was given.^[b] And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Yeshua and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image, nor had they received his mark on their forehead or on their hand. And they came to life^[c] and reigned with the Messiah for a thousand years.

⁵ The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection. ⁶ How fortunate and holy is the one who has a share in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no authority, but they shall be kohanim of God and the Messiah, and they shall reign with Him for a thousand years.

Judgment After 1000 Years

⁷ When the thousand years has ended, satan shall be released from his prison, ⁸ and he shall come out to deceive the nations at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for the battle.^[d] Their number is like the sand of the sea. ⁹ And they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the kedoshim and the beloved city—but fire fell from heaven and consumed them.^[e]

¹⁰ And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are too, and they shall be tortured day and night forever and ever.

¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne, and the One seated on it. The earth and heaven fled from His presence, but no place was found for them. ¹² And I saw the dead—the great and the small—standing before the throne. The books were opened, and another book was opened—the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to what was written in the books, according to their deeds. ^{[f] 13} The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Sheol gave up the dead in them. Then they were each judged, each one of them, according to their deeds.

¹⁴ Then death and Sheol were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire. ¹⁵ And if anyone was not found written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Praise Him, All Creation!

Psalm 148