Rulers and Kings can still rule while having enemies rise up against...The of all the revolutions in the world's history.
Zechariah 14:1-21 (HCSB)
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1 [/SUP] A day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.
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I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle. The city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.
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3 [/SUP] Then the LORD will go out to fight against those nations as He fights on a day of battle.
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4 [/SUP] On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. The Mount of Olives will be split in half from east to west, forming a huge valley, so that half the mountain will move to the north and half to the south.
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5 [/SUP] You will flee by My mountain valley, for the valley of the mountains will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come and all the holy ones with Him.
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6 [/SUP] On that day there will be no light; the sunlight and moonlight will diminish.
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7 [/SUP] It will be a day known ⌊only⌋ to Yahweh, without day or night, but there will be light at evening.
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8 [/SUP] On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea, in summer and winter alike.
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On that day, Yahweh will become King over all the earth—
Yahweh alone, and His name alone.
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10 [/SUP] All the land from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem will be changed into a plain. But ⌊Jerusalem⌋ will be raised up and will remain on its site from the Benjamin Gate to the place of the First Gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses.
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11 [/SUP] People will live there, and never again will there be a curse of complete destruction. So Jerusalem will dwell in security.
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12 [/SUP] This will be the plague the LORD strikes all the peoples with, who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
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13 [/SUP] On that day a great panic from the LORD will be among them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of one will rise against the other.
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14 [/SUP] Judah will also fight at Jerusalem, and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be collected: gold, silver, and clothing in great abundance.
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15 [/SUP] The same plague as the previous one will strike the horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all the animals that are in those camps.
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Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King,
the LORD of Hosts, and to celebrate the Festival of Booths.
{Who was it that said that Temple Worship and Celebration of the Feasts in the Kingdom was apostasy?}
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Should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, rain will not fall on them.
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And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter, then rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague the LORD inflicts on the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Booths.
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This will be the punishment of Egypt and all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Booths.
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20 [/SUP] On that day, ⌊the words⌋
HOLY TO THE LORD will be on the bells of the horses. The pots in the house of the LORD will be like the sprinkling basins before the altar.
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21 [/SUP] Every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the LORD of Hosts. Everyone who sacrifices will come and take some of the pots to cook in. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of Hosts.
Revelation 19:6-21 (HCSB)
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6 [/SUP] Then I heard something like the voice of a vast multitude, like the sound of cascading waters, and like the rumbling of loud thunder, saying: Hallelujah, because our Lord God, the Almighty, has begun to reign!
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7 [/SUP] Let us be glad, rejoice, and give Him glory, because
the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has prepared herself.
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She was given fine linen to wear, bright and pure. For the fine linen represents the righteous acts of the saints.
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9 [/SUP] Then he said to me, “Write: Those invited to the marriage feast of the Lamb are fortunate!” He also said to me, “These words of God are true.”
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10 [/SUP] Then I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow slave with you and your brothers who have the testimony about Jesus. Worship God, because the testimony about Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”
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Then I saw heaven opened, and there was a white horse. Its rider is called Faithful and True, and He judges and makes war in righteousness.
[SUP]12 [/SUP] His eyes were like a fiery flame, and many crowns were on His head. He had a name written that no one knows except Himself.
[SUP]13 [/SUP] He wore a robe stained with blood, and His name is the Word of God.
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14 [/SUP] The armies that were in heaven followed Him on white horses,
wearing pure white linen.
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A sharp sword came from His mouth, so that He might strike the nations with it. He will shepherd them with an iron scepter. He will also trample the winepress of the fierce anger of God, the Almighty.
[SUP]16 [/SUP] And He has a name written on His robe and on His thigh: KING OF KINGSAND LORD OF LORDS.
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17 [/SUP] Then I saw an angel standing on the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice, saying to all the birds flying high overhead, “
Come, gather together for the great supper of God,
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so that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of commanders, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of their riders, and the flesh of everyone, both free and slave, small and great.”
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19 [/SUP] Then
I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and against His army.
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20 [/SUP] But the beast was taken prisoner, and along with him the false prophet, who had performed the signs in his presence. He deceived those who accepted the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image with these signs. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
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The rest were killed with the sword that came from the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds were filled with their flesh.
How Many Kings of the Earth does that leave?
Have you always had trouble believing what GOD has said in HIS WORD?