148 about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, 0 Lord. Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to JUDGE all the heathen round about. Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down: for the press is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great. "Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. The Lord also shall ROAR out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem [where Christ shall have returned -- see Zech.1:1]: and the heavens and the earth shall shake[in the mightiest earthquake in all time -- see Revelation 16:16-21]; but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel" (Joel 3:9-16). This truly shall be the "war to end all wars." The prophet Zechariah adds to the clarity of the picture. He describes the scene thus: "Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city" (Zech.14:1-2). "Then shall the Lord go forth, and FIGHT against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle" (verse 3). This verse describes the "battle of that great day of God Almighty" (Rev.16:14) -- or, as many refer to it, the last battle of "Armageddon" (Rev.16:16). When God stands up, everybody watches, and when God fights, everybody fears. Zechariah continues, "And his feet [the feet of Christ, Yeshua the Messiah] shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains [newly formed]; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee" (Zech.14:4-5). Earth Orogeny The apostle John tells us that this great earthquake which will accompany the return of Christ, and will occur when He sets His feet upon the Mount of Olives, will be "such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found" (Rev.16:18-20). This earthquake will be global in nature! It will be felt around the world, in every
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