Setting: Vs. 1-3 details the last earthly siege of Jerusalem. Vs. 4-7 Jesus returns to deliver His people in their hour of greatest need. It is the end of the gentiles. This is the second coming. The rapture is not the second coming. That is when He comes in the air and removes His believers from the Earth. Vs. 8-21 deals with the messianic kingdom.
Vs1: God is telling Zechariah that a great war is coming and the spoils of war will be divided up right then and there. The gentiles will not take the spoils back to their homeland and divide it, they will do it right then and there. Vs2: At no time in history have all the nations been against Jerusalem at once. The horrors of war will occur, just like in any war in history. Half of the population will be taken into captivity. The rest of the people will stay right there in the city. Vs3: When it reaches a point in this battle in Jerusalem, when half the people are taken and the other half is still living in the city at that time, the Jews will call upon their messiah to come. When they make that proclamation, that's when Jesus Christ will return and save His people. Isaiah 31:4 when a multitude of shepherds have called upon Him, He shall come back and return to battle for His people and land.
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