Zechariah 14:7

But 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. BUT IT SHALL BE ONE DAY - a day altogether unique, different from all others (Maurer). Compare "one," i:e., unique, ; . Not as Henderson explains, 'one continuous day, without night' (,25 ): the millennial period (Revelation 20:3). For it is not until "evening time" that the "light" comes. Meantime, it shall not be such daylight as the sun produces, nor yet shall it be altogether "night," such as there is in the absence of the sun: there will be some light, but dim and unc...

Then he says, that _this day is known to Jehovah_, in order that the faithful night depend on his good pleasure, and not too anxiously enquire about an event hidden from them and the whole world. _The day _then _is known_, says Zechariah, only to God, though he speaks of things well known, and which the Jews had at length to know by experience. But his object must be regarded, for his purpose was to restrain the godly, that they might not unnecessarily torment themselves, for we are wont to be too curious to know things: when God’s design is to calm us, and to make us rely on his providence, then many thoughts come across our minds, and toss us here and there, and thus we torment ourselves with anxiety. As then it is disease is innate in human nature, the Prophet supplies a seasonable remedy, — that the faithful are to allow themselves to be ruled by God, and to follow the example of the...

1-7 The Lord Jesus often stood upon the Mount of Olives when on earth. He ascended from thence to heaven, and then desolations and distresses came upon the Jewish nation. Such is the view taken of this figuratively; but many consider it as a notice of events yet unfulfilled, and that it relates to troubles of which we cannot now form a full idea. Every believer, being related to God as his God, may triumph in the expectation of Christ's coming in power, and speak of it with pleasure. During a long season, the state of the church would be deformed by sin; there would be a mixture of truth and error, of happiness and misery. Such is the experience of God's people, a mingled state of grace and corruption. But, when the season is at the worst, and most unpromising, the Lord will turn darkness into light; deliverance comes when God's people have done looking for it....

Verse Zechariah 14:7. _AT EVENING TIME IT SHALL BE LIGHT._] At the _close_ of this awful visitation, there shall be _light_. The light of the glorious Gospel shall go forth from Jerusalem; and next, from the Roman empire to every part of the earth....

AND IT SHALL BE ONE DAY: IT SHALL BE KNOWN UNTO THE LORD: NOT DAY, AND NOT NIGHT; AND AT THE EVENTIDE IT SHALL BE LIGHT - “One” special “day; one,” unlike all beside; known unto God, and to Him alone. For God alone knows the day of the consummation of all things, as He saith, “Of that day and that hour knoweth no one, neither the angels in Heaven, nor the Son, (so as to reveal it) but the Father only” Mark 13:32. Neither wholly “day,” because overclouded with darkness; nor wholly “night,” for the streaks of light burst through the darkness chequered of both; but in “eventide,” when all seems ready to sink into the thickest night, “there shall be light.” Divine light always breaks in, when all seems darkness; but then the chequered condition of our mortality comes to an end, then comes the morning, which has no evening; the light which has no setting; “perpetual ligh

EXPOSITION ZECHARIAH 14:1, ZECHARIAH 14:2 § 5. The afflictions of the people and their results are set forth in figure and symbol. _Jerusalem is represented as taken and plundered._ ZECHARIAH 14:1 THE DAY OF THE LORD; _a day of _(or, _to_) _Jehovah cometh. _The Greek and Latin Versions have the plural, "days of the Lord come." It is a time when he will specially manifest his glory and power, and be recognized as allowing the trial of his people for wise purposes. It is impossible to fix on any historical fulfilment of this prophecy. The details suit neither Maccabean no

BUT IT SHALL BE ONE DAY,.... A very singular, remarkable, and uncommon one; and it will be but one day; things will not continue long in such a position: WHICH SHALL BE KNOWN TO THE LORD; all times and seasons are known unto the Lord, but this will come under his special notice and observation, and be under the direction of his special providence; it will only be taken notice of by him, and not by others; scarce any will observe it, or know what God is doing in it, or about to do: NOT DAY, NOR NIGHT; not clear and full day, as at noon; nor yet quite night or dark, as at midnight; Zechariah 14:6: BUT IT SHALL COME TO PASS, [THAT] AT EVENING TIME IT SHALL BE LIGHT; after this day is over, which is neither clear nor dark, there will be an evening time; things will be worse with us than they are; the sun will be set; Christ will be w

CHAPTER 14 _ 1. The last conflict and the manifestation of the Lord (Zechariah 14:1) _ 2. The complete salvation (Zechariah 14:6) 3. The punishment of the enemies (Zechariah 14:12) 4. The conversion of the world (Zechariah 14:16) 5. The holiness of Jerusalem (Zechariah 14:20) Zechariah 14:1. Post-millennialism has tried to find some explanation of this chapter, but has failed. Th

ZECHARIAH 14. THE TRIBULATION OF THE STRUGGLE AGAINST HEATHENISM AND THE GLORIOUS FUTURE WHICH MAY BE ANTICIPATED. It is noteworthy that the writer considers the plundering of Jerusalem as a day of the Lord. Zechariah 14:1 f. describes the affliction of Jerusalem up to the time of the Maccabæ an successes which are referred to in Zechariah 14:3. The sense of what follows is hopelessly obscure in MT and EV owing to the mispronunciation of the Heb. consonants in Zechariah 14:5. The thought of flight is here altogether out of place. Following the pro nunciation adopted in LXX, we may render Zechariah 14:5 as follows: And the vall

ONE DAY. one [continuous] day, or one day by itself, unique. Compare Psalms 118:21, KNOWN TO THE LORD. This forbids our assumptions, and should restrain our curiosity. NOT DAY, NOR NIGHT. Answering to "not bright, nor dense" in Zechariah 14:6....