Zechariah 14:12-21
“This shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem... And every one that is left of all the nations... shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.”
King James Version
The plague on the nations that warred against Jerusalem, and the survivors going up year by year to worship the King and keep the Feast of Tabernacles — the holiness of the kingdom age.
Fulfillment References
Zechariah 14:9 Isaiah 66:23 Revelation 19:15 Leviticus 23:34
How Traditions Read This Prophecy
Apostolic (Oneness) PentecostalThe King, 'the LORD of hosts,' whom the nations worship, is Jesus — the one God reigning, the nations keeping His feast.
JewishThe Messianic age when the nations come up to Jerusalem to keep Tabernacles before the King, the LORD of hosts.
CatholicThe reign of Christ the King, the nations gathered in worship; holiness pervading all.
ProtestantThe kingdom age — the nations worshipping the King and keeping Tabernacles, with 'holiness unto the LORD' on everything.
OrthodoxChrist the King worshipped by the nations in the age to come.
DispensationalThe literal millennial kingdom — the nations keeping the Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem under Christ's reign.
AcademicThe 'nations keeping Tabernacles' draws the Feast of Ingathering into the eschatological pilgrimage of the nations (cf. Isa. 2; 66:23).
Scholarship & Sources
Zechariah 14:16-19 draws the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot, the ingathering) into the nations' eschatological pilgrimage to Zion (cf. Isa. 2:2-4; 66:23); 'holiness unto the LORD' on the bells and pots (14:20-21) universalizes the temple's holiness to all of life.
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