Zech. 14:8

8 And it shall be in that day [yowm], that living [chay] waters [mayim] shall go out [yatsa'] from Jerusalem [Yaruwshalaim]; half [chetsiy] of them toward the former [qadmowniy] sea [yam], and half [chetsiy] of them toward the hinder ['acharown] sea [yam]: in summer [qayits] and in winter [choreph] shall it be. KJV-Interlinear

8 And it will come about in that day that living waters will flow out of Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea; it will be in summer as well as in winter. NASB

Yesterday we saw that one of the changes that will occur immediately following Christ s Second Advent return, is the change in the day/night schedule, neither day nor night.

Expanding that phrase which really means that all of the contrasts, which have symbolized the differences between good and evil, will also change. That is, neither hot nor cold, neither dark nor light, neither truth nor lies.

All of the contrasts will be gone. Evil will be gone. No more nighttime will exist. No more evil influences from Satan.

What will exist, will be the soft and gentle light, which will not emanate from the sun, and the night stars and moon, but Christ Himself will be the source of all light which will cover continuously, the entire planet.

A huge spring, will erupt up, from out of the ground in Jerusalem, and it will flow like a large river. Half of the water will flow to the east, to the front, toward the Dead Sea, and half will flow to the west, to the hinder side, to the Mediterranean Sea.

These waters will flow year round. They will not dry up in the summer or fall, they will not rush and swell with the spring rains, and they will not freeze up in the dead of winter. Because there will no longer be the seasons of the year.

You recall that a couple of lessons ago, we left the remnant of Jerusalem, running for their lives down a valley, which was opened up by Christ. That valley ran from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea. It is now full of water.

Now we have a giant flow of water, a river large enough to carry ocean-going vessels, coming from Jerusalem, and flowing in both directions, both east and west. Jerusalem will become a seaport in the Millennium.

When the heat of battle was on, when Satan had in his mind to kill everyone so that Christ would have no one to deliver, then, just as in the days of the exodus when Pharaoh chased after the Israelites, so too, we can presume that the forces of evil will be giving chase after the folks escaping from Jerusalem.

Though nothing specifically is mentioned, we can put together the missing parts of the puzzle. The Remnant will be running through the valley. The enemy forces will be giving chase. At some point, Christ will direct the remnant to some safe exit from the valley, to higher ground, and then the waters of judgment, if you will, will erupt out of the ground simultaneously with another earthquake. That second earthquake will open up another valley to the west this time, from Jerusalem to the Mediterranean Sea.

All who are caught in the valley, will either be crushed by the earthquake, or carried away to their deaths by the rushing water.

The enemies of God will all die. Many will die at the hand of the many natural catastrophes, many will die from fighting amongst themselves, and finally many, the last of all the evil forces, will die by the direct command of Christ Himself.

In the final moments of the Tribulation, when all light is removed from planet earth, that is the symbol of the total and final exclusion of truth, from the lives of all of the evil people of the world. In those final weeks, days and hours, we can assume that there will be some, who will turn to God and Christ, and gain their salvation.

But, just as in the flood of Noah, and likewise we speculate at the time of the Rapture, there will come a time when there will be no more believers. That the time will come when, for the sake of those who have believed, a change must take place in order to preserve the saved.

In Noah s time, it was the flood. In our dispensation, it will be the Rapture. In the future Tribulation, it will be the Second Advent. These three events separate permanently those who have believed from the rest of an unbelieving world.

In Noah s day, there was no further chance for salvation for those who refused to get onto the ark. In the time of the Rapture, there will be a second chance for those who just need a kick in the pants, in order to get them to change their minds about Christ. At the Second Advent, total darkness will seal off the doom for those who refuse to believe in Christ, and their judgment will come immediately following that darkness.

The soft light of Christ will emanate thereafter throughout the Millennium, and forever into eternity.

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