Paraphrased Old Testament Scriptures Concerning

Tribulation Period Judgments and Events

​​INDEX FOR THIS SECTION

1. FIRST JUDGMENT: fire, earth burned up; conquest by bow, crown; hail with blood hurled to earth; sores

2. SECOND JUDGMENT: An asteroid hits the sea, the sea turns to blood; sea creatures die; sword. The situation

3. THIRD JUDGMENT: starvation, famine, Satan thrown to earth; rivers and springs turn to blood

4. FOURTH JUDGMENT: sword, plague, pandemic, famine; great heat; sun, moon, stars darkened

5. FIFTH JUDGMENT: evil angels (locusts) released on earth to torture men; darkness; intense heat; death,

6. SIXTH JUDGMENT: earthquake, moon turns red; intense heat, Euphrates dries up; fire, smoke, sulfur, men flee to caves

7. SEVENTH JUDGMENT: Second Coming; earthquake, lightning, hail; cities, mountains, islands collapse

8. THE PERIOD FROM THE SECOND COMING TO MILLENNIUM START

9. BELIEVERS WILL HAVE A NEW NAME “IN THAT DAY”

10. INFORMATION REGARDING THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE

11. JESUS WILL BE RECOGNIZED AS GOD & THE MESSIAH “IN THAT DAY.” THEY WILL CALL OUT TO HIM AND HE WILL COME AND SAVE THEM

12. JESUS IS PRESENTED AS A PARTNER WITH THE FATHER IN PROPHECY

13. THE TEMPLE WILL BE REBUILT AND IN USE IN THE TRIBULATION

FIRST JUDGMENT: fire, earth burned up; conquest by bow, crown; hail with blood hurled to earth; sores

• Ezek 38:1-16, 39:1-2 – After the re-gathering of the people of Israel from many nations, and when they are living in safety, God will bring a coalition of nations to attack Israel. This coalition will include nations from the far north, including nations between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, several other Islamic nations including Iran, and possibly some of the nations from Eastern Europe. Ezek 38:21-22 clearly places these events in the 1st and 2nd judgments (Rev 6:3-4, 8:7).
• Isa 66:19-21 - Jesus will send some of the survivors to the nations to tell the Jews (brothers) still scattered among the nations about Jesus. Many will become believers and return to Israel as redeemed.
• Zech 4:1-14, esp verse 14 - There are two special witnesses for God during the first half of the tribulation. The description given here of the two olive trees, two branches, lampstand, golden bowl, seven channels, etc., helps greatly in understanding the makeup of the two witnesses in Revelation. We are told in verse 14 that the two olive branches are two who are anointed to serve the Lord.
• Mal 4:4-6 – God will send the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. People who he witnesses to will either turn to Jesus or else he will strike them with a curse.
• Joel 1:15 – The day of the Lord will come like destruction from the Almighty.
• Isa 13:9, 17-22 - The day of the Lord is coming, a cruel day, a day with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land of Babylon desolate and destroy the sinners within it.
• Isa 11:13-16 - Israel will conquer all of those in the countries surrounding them.
• Ezek 38:22, 39:3-6 – God will execute those nations that attack Israel by pouring down on them torrents of rain, hailstones and burning sulfur. This fulfills Rev 8:7, a description of the 1st judgment.
• Ezek 39:9-10 - Magog will be executed within Israel. Israel will use the weapons that they take from Magog and use them as fuel for seven years.
• Isa 13:1-5 - In that day the Lord will muster an army from far away lands to come and destroy the whole country of Babylon (Iraq).
• Isa 13:17-22 - God will stir up the Medes (Iran) against the Babylonians (Iraq) and it will be overthrown like Sodom and Gomorrah, and will never again be inhabited.
• Jer 51:9 – Babylon’s judgment reaches as high as the clouds. This sounds like a description of nuclear weapons.
• Jer 51:32 – The marshes of Babylon are on fire.
• Joel 1:16-20 – The trees and pastures are burned up by fire.
• Zeph 3:8 – The whole world will be consumed by the fire of God’s jealous anger.
• Ezek 39:11-16 – Gog will be buried in a valley in Israel. It will take seven months to bury all of the dead.
• Zech 12:6-9 - Israel will be attacked by the nations of the earth on the very first day of the tribulation. However, the nations who attack Israel will panic like mad men. The weapons fired upon Israel will not work for some supernatural reason. The leaders and people of Judah will suddenly become believers in God (the 144,000). The leaders of Judah will become extremely strong and Israel will militarily take control of all of the countries surrounding them. During all of this, neither the buildings nor the peoples of Jerusalem will be harmed. God will personally set out to destroy the nations that attack Israel. This may be through the vehicle of the second judgment, the asteroid that apparently hits the Indian Ocean.
• Isa 7:23 - In that day valuable vines will be replaced by briars and thorns.

SECOND JUDGMENT: An asteroid hits the sea, the sea turns to blood; sea creatures die; sword, men kill each other

• Ezek 21:7-10. Compare to Luke 21:25-26 - Ezekiel was groaning and the people asked him why he was groaning. He replied that it was because of the news that was coming. Every heart will melt and every hand will go limp; every spirit will become faint and every knee will become as weak as water. The sword will flash like lightning. Obviously, this also applied to the Babylonian captivity.
• Isa 27:1 - In that day the Lord will punish with his sword, his fierce, great and powerful sword.
• Ezek 21:1-17, 28 - God will draw his sword and use it against both the righteous and unrighteous of Israel.
• Ezek 38:21 – Every man’s sword will be against his brother (2nd seal judgment, Rev 6:3-4).
• Isa 19:2 – Neighbor will fight against neighbor.
• Job 19:28-29 – Job knew that Jesus would there would be judgment for those who do not honor God. He said that this judgment would include wrath through punishment by the sword.
• Zech 14:12-15 – People and animals will suffer from radiation sores and men will want to kill each other. Men will be stricken by the Lord with great panic (because of what they see coming in the skies).
• Joel 2:30 – In that day there will be wonders in the heaven and on earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke.
• Ezek 38:18-20 – God will be so extremely angry with Israel at the time that he brings the nations against her. (For giving her land away? For not returning to him as their God and accepting Jesus?) God will do something (he calls it an earthquake) that will cause all of the people living on earth and all of the animals on earth to tremble in fear. People will recognize that it is supernatural and an act of God. Even the fish of the sea and birds of the air will be affected.
• Isa 8:7-8 – The Lord will bring against Israel the floodwaters of the great river Euphrates; it will spread across Iraq and into Israel and rise to the height of a neck.
• Jer 51:42-44 – The roaring waves of the sea will cover Babylon. Babylon will become desolate, dry and abandoned.
• Joel 3:19 – Egypt will be desolate and Edom (Jordan, Saudi Arabia and part of Egypt; Edom may also be interpreted as the descendents of Esau from Obadiah 1:6-9) a desert waste in that day.

THIRD JUDGMENT: starvation, famine, Satan thrown to earth; rivers and springs turn to blood

• Isa 15:6-9 - The waters in Moab are full of blood.
• Jer 23:15 – God will make the false teachers eat bitter food and drink poisoned water.
• Ezek 28, 31 - Satan’s fall is presented in allegorical form in Isa 14 and Ezek 28.

FOURTH JUDGMENT: sword, plague, pandemic, famine; great heat; sun, moon, stars darkened

• Joel 2:31 – The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood in that day.
• Isa 13:10 - The stars will not show their light, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light.
• Ezek 32:7-8 - The sun, moon and stars will be darkened by clouds.
• Isa 5:30 - In that day there will be darkness and distress; even the light will be darkened by clouds.
• Joel 2:1-2 – The day of the Lord is coming, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness.
• Amos 5:18-20 – The day of the Lord will be darkness, not light; it will be pitch-dark, without a ray of light.
• Amos 8:9 – In that day the earth will be darkened in broad daylight.
• Isa 15:6 - The waters in Moab are dried up, the grass is withered, the vegetation gone, nothing green is left.
• Isa 19:5-10 - There will be a great drought in Egypt.
• Ezek 6:11-14, 14:21 - Israel will be punished by the sword, famine, (wild beasts) and plague and he will make their land a waste land because of idol worship. This applied to the Babylonian conquest of the sixth century BC but obviously also applies to the end time scenario laid out in Rev 6:8 for the fourth seal judgment.
• Amos 8:11-13 – In that day there will be famine, not of food but of hearing the word of the Lord; they will search for the word of the Lord, but will not find it.

FIFTH JUDGMENT:evil angels (locusts) released on earth to torture men; darkness; intense heat

• Zech 14:2-7 – At the mid point of the tribulation Jesus will bring all of the nations to Jerusalem again to fight against it. Jerusalem will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. (It is at this time that the antichrist goes into the temple and declares himself to be God.). Half of the people will go into exile and the other half will remain.
• Dan 7:25 – The antichrist will speak out against the Most High, Jesus. He will rule over the saints of Jesus for 3 ½ years during the second half of the tribulation.
• Dan 7:23 – The antichrist crushes the whole earth.
• Dan 8 – Applies to the desecration of the temple in 171-165 BC by Antiochus Epiphanes. Some of this may also apply to the future desecration by the antichrist, Dan 8:26. Dan ch 8 seems to primarily apply to prophecy of the kingdoms that would arise during the time from Daniel to Christ.
• Jer 51:14 – God uses a swarm of locusts to devastate Babylon. By their description these locusts may be vehicles of war at the time of the Tribulation or they may be some plague released by the evil angels who are released from the Abyss in the 5th trumpet judgment.
• Ezek 22:17-22, 31 - God will gather the Jews together and pour out his wrath and fiery anger upon them as he melts them with intense heat.
• Dan 7:6-17 – The beast is an empire of several nations (7:17) and heads are the individual nations of the empire. Horns are the leaders of the individual nations (Dan 7:8). Horns in the Bible are generally strong and prideful political leaders.
• Dan 7:7-8 – The antichrist becomes the leader of the 10 leader empire. He personally overcomes the other leaders and rules their nations.
• Dan 2:40-43 – The revived empire ruled by 10 leaders will be divided. Some nations will be strong and some weak. They will end up not being compatible with each other (may imply that some are Christian and others Islamic).
• Hosea 6:5 – God killed Israel and Judah with the words of his mouth; his judgments flashed like lightning upon them.
• Ps 92-99 – These Psalms are about a new song that the redeemed Jews (Rev 14:3) will sing when they are raptured to heaven soon after the mid-point of the tribulation period. This song is about the impending reign of Jesus on earth during the millennium. Some of the words of the song are quoted in Ps 96.

SIXTH JUDGMENT: earthquake, moon turns red; intense heat, Euphrates dries up; fire, smoke, sulfur, men flee to caves

• Joel 2:31 – The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood in that day.
• Isa 2:21 - Men will flee to caverns in the earth in that day.
• Isa 10:23 - Destruction is decreed upon the whole land.
• Isa 11:15 - The gulf of the Egyptian Sea and the Euphrates River will be dried up.
• Jer 50:38, 51:36-38 – The waters and rivers of Babylon dry up.
• Joel 1:20 – The streams of water have dried up, fire has devoured the open fields.
• Isa 15:1-5 - Moab (Jordan) is destroyed in a single night.
• Isa 16:4, 13 - Within three years of Moab (central Jordan) refusing sanctuary to Israel’s refugees, (starting at the abomination of desolation soon after the midpoint of the tribulation period?) Moab will be destroyed and her survivors will be very few and feeble.
• Isa 17:1, 10 - In that day Damascus (Syria) will be destroyed because she has forgotten God her Savior, she has not remembered the Rock, her fortress (Jesus).
• Isa 14:31 - The Philistines (Palestinians) will be destroyed by a cloud of smoke from the north.
• Isa 24:5-6 - Earth’s people have violated the everlasting covenant and must bear their guilt; therefore earth’s inhabitants will be burned up and very few will be left.
• Ezek 20:45-48 - God will supernaturally set a fire to the trees of southern Israel, both green and dry, and everyone in Israel, both in the north and the south, will be scorched by it,
• Ezek 25-32 - Because of their treatment of Israel, God will stretch out his hand to punish and destroy Ammon (North Jordon) Ezek 25:1-7, Moab (Central Jordan) Ezek 25:8-14, Edom (southern Jordan) Ezek 25:12-14, all of chapter 35, Philistia (Gaza Strip and Southern Israel) Ezek 25:15-17, Tyre (city in Lebanon) Ezek 26, 27, 28, Sidon (city in Lebanon) Ezek 28:20-24, and Egypt, Ezek 29-32.
• Joel 2:1-17– A large and mighty army comes, larger than any in the past or in the future. Fire is in front of and behind them, they have the appearance of horses and the sound of chariots. They consume everything in front of them. At the sight of them nations are in anguish, every face turns pale. Before them the earth shakes, the sky trembles. The sun and moon are darkened, the stars no longer shine. The Lord thunders at the head of his army; his forces are beyond number and mighty are those who obey his command. (This army of the Lord is the army of 200 million of Rev 9:16 and 16:12 which comes from the east, just as Jesus returns from the east, Ezek 43:4. Rev 9:17-18 taken with Rev 14:9-11 seems to indicate that this army is an army composed of the Lord’s angels, under his command. God calls this “his army” in Joel 2:25. Sulfur came from the mouths of the horses in Rev 9:17-18 and sulfur was used to torment those who followed the antichrist in Rev14:9-11. This sulfur seems to represent the fires of hell into which they will be thrown. Rev 14:14-20 makes it clear that it is angels who are executing the sixth judgment on earth. They swing their sickles and harvest those under the wrath of God.) This is the day of the Lord and it is dreadful. An angel precedes the army giving the residents of earth one final chance to accept Jesus and his gospel or face certain and eternal death (Rev 14:6-7, Joel 2:13). Finally, the priests of Israel call on Jesus to return and spare them; he hears them and the bridegroom, Jesus, and the bride, the church, leave their chambers in heaven and return to earth. The Lord takes pity on his people of earth and saves them from sure destruction.

SEVENTH JUDGMENT: Second Coming; earthquake, lightning, hail; cities, mountains, islands collapse

• Joel 3:2-3, 9-17–God will gather all nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat and enter into judgment upon them concerning his inheritance, the people of Israel. The sun and moon will be darkened and the stars no longer shine. God will judge the nations on every side. The great harvest of evil of Rev 14:17-20 takes place (Compare to Joel 3:13-14).
• Isa 11:1, 4 - The Branch, the root of the stump of Jesse, will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth. with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked.
• Isa 29:5-6 - But your many enemies will become like fine dust, the ruthless hordes like blown chaff. Suddenly, in an instant, The Lord Almighty will come with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with windstorm and tempest, and flames of devouring fire.
• Isa 13:13 - The heavens will tremble and the earth will shake from its place.
• Isa 2:21 - The Lord will shake the earth in that day.
• Isa 24:19-20 - The earth is broken up, the earth is split asunder, the earth is thoroughly shaken, the earth reels like a drunkard, it sways like a hut in the wind.
• Zeph 1:14-18 – The day of the Lord will be bitter, a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, of trouble and ruin, of darkness and gloom, of clouds and blackness, of trumpets and battle cry. People will walk around like blind men. Blood will be poured out like dust. In the fire of God’s jealousy the whole world will be consumed.
• Isa 24:3 - The earth will be completely laid waste.
• Isa 30:30 - The Lord will cause men to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail.
• Isa 63:1-6 -Jesus returns to Zion after passing through Bozrah in Edom, with his garments stained crimson, robed in splendor and striding forward in the greatness of his strength. The blood is from stains from Jesus trampling the nations in his anger.
• Isa 34:4-6 - All the stars of the heavens will be dissolved, and the sky rolled up like a scroll,. My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; see it descends in judgment on Edom (Jordan); for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah.
• Isa 66:15-16 - The Lord is coming with fire and sword to execute judgment upon men in his anger, and many will be killed.
• Isa 13:12 - Man will become scarcer than pure gold.
• Isa 10:24-25 - God’s anger against Israel will cease and be redirected at the Assyrians (Iran).
• Isa 30:31 - The voice of the Lord will shatter Assyria (Iraq); and his scepter will strike them down.
• Isa 30:33 - The breath of the Lord, like a stream of burning sulfur sets it ablaze.
• Isa 31:8 - Assyria (Iraq) will fall by a sword that is not of man.
• Isa 34:2 - The Lord is angry with all nations; his wrath is upon all their armies. He will totally destroy them.
• Isa 10:34 - Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.
• Isa 34:10 - From generation to generation it (Edom, Jordan) will lie desolate; no one will ever pass through it again.
• Dan 11:40-45 – The antichrist will conquer all of the Middle East except for Jordan. The countries that he conquers include Israel, Egypt, Libya, and Nubia (Sudan, just south of Egypt). Reports from the north and east alarm him, possibly because an alliance of Russia and China are on the way to engage him. When he hears this he preemptively attacks them and tries to destroy them.
• Dan 11:45 – The antichrist will set up his capital in Israel, possibly on Zion in Jerusalem. It is there that he meets his end.
• Isa 14:24-27 - The antichrist, called the Assyrian, will be crushed in Israel, for it is the plan determined for the whole world.
• Dan 7:21-22 – The antichrist is waging war against the saints of God until Jesus returns at the 2nd coming and defeats him.
• Dan 11:36 – The antichrist will be successful until the time of wrath is completed at the Second Coming.
• Dan 7:8, 11 – The antichrist speaks boastfully. He is thrown into hell after the Second Coming.
• Micah 5:9 – Israel’s hand will be lifted up in victory and all of her enemies will be destroyed.
• Micah 5:10-15 – God will destroy all of Israel’s false gods, all of the vehicles that Israel uses to avoid accepting Jesus as God. He will destroy her cities. He will also take vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations that have not obeyed him.
• Zech 9:15-16 – The Lord will sound his trumpet and save his people on that day as the flock of his people.
• Zech 14:2-3 – At the mid point of the tribulation Jesus will bring all of the nations to Jerusalem again to fight against it. Jerusalem will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. (It is at this time that the antichrist goes into the temple and declares himself to be God.) Half of the people will go into exile and the other half will remain. Later, after 3 ½ years of further tribulation, the Jewish people and nation are finally ready to call upon the name of Jesus to come back to earth and save them. The heat has been turned up so much by God that the world is about to be totally destroyed. When the Jews call on Jesus he waits 3 ½ more days and then comes back to save them.
• Zech 14:4-11 – At the Second Coming Jesus feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem. It will be a truly unique day, as Jesus supernaturally reconfigures the earth, repairs the damage, and places it back into its Garden of Eden like state.
• Mal 3:2-4 – When Jesus returns he will be like a refiner’s fire or a launderer’s soap. He will purify the Levites and refine them like gold or silver. Then he will have men who can stand before him.
• Isa 14:9-20, Rev 20:1-3 - Satan will be thrown into Hades and be met there by the spirits of the departed; they say to him, “You have become weak like us and your pomp is now gone.”
• Isa 14:21, Rev 20:4-6 - Those who follow Satan will not be resurrected to inherit the earth as will those who follow God.
• Ezek 34:1-16 - The shepherds of the Jewish people, the Rabbi’s, were not tending the flock and feeding them the right food (they did not recognize Jesus as God and Messiah), Ezek 34:1-10. Because of that, God said that he would come to earth himself as Jesus and tend to the flock himself. He will do so on a day of clouds and darkness, Ezek 34:12. He will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, but he will destroy those who led them astray. He will herd the flock with justice, Ezek 34:11-16.
• Isa 47:1-15 – The destruction of mystery Babylon, the great prostitute, just before the Second Coming.

THE PERIOD FROM THE SECOND COMING TO THE START OF THE MILLENNIUM

• Isa 18:3 - When the trumpet sounds and a banner is raised on Mount Zion, the whole world will hear it.
• Isa 24:21-22 - In that day the Lord will punish the powers in the heavens and the kings of the earth below; they will be herded together like prisoners bound in a dungeon, they will be shut up in prison and punished after many days. Satan, his evil angels, and all evil men will be bound in Hades during the millennium awaiting their final judgment.
• Isa 16:5 - Jesus will sit on a throne and judge as he seeks justice.
• Obadiah 1:17-18 – In that day there will be deliverance on Mount Zion; it will be holy and the house of Jacob will receive her inheritance.
• Micah 2:12-13 – Jesus will re-gather his sheep, the remnant of Israel, in that day.
• Ezek 34:17-24 - Right after his return to earth, Jesus will judge between the sheep and the goats. This is the sheep-goat judgment described by Jesus in Matt 25:31-46.
• Zeph 3:10-13 – The sheep-goat judgment: In that day God will remove the evil from the land and leave only those who trust in the Lord.
• Mal 4:1-3 – That day will burn like a furnace. Every evildoer will burn like stubble; nothing will be left of them. But those who believe in Jesus will rise with healing in his wings. Believers will leap like calves released from the stall.
• Joel 3:1 – In those days and at that time, God will restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem.
• Joel 3:20 – Judah will be inhabited forever and Jerusalem through all generations, from that day on.
• Amos 9:11-15 – In that day, God will restore Israel, restore its fallen ruins and make it as it was before. God will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. Israel will never again be uprooted from the land God gave them.
• Isa 26:1, 13-14 - In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah, “We have a strong city; God makes salvation. O Lord, our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but your name alone do we honor. They are now dead, they live no more. You punished them and brought them to ruin, you wiped out all memory of them.”
• Isa 60:18-22 -There will no longer be violence in the land, the days of sorrow will end, the Lord will be your everlasting light, the sun will never set, they will possess the land forever; They are the shoot I have planted. “I am the Lord; in its time, I will do this swiftly.”
• Isa 30:25-26 -In the day of great slaughter, streams of water will flow on every high mountain and every lofty hill. The moon will shine like the sun, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter, when the Lord binds up the bruises of the people and heals the wounds he inflicted.
• Isa 45:23-25 -Before me every knee will bow; by me every tongue will swear. They will say of me, “in the Lord alone are righteousness and strength.” All who have raged against him will be put to shame. But in the Lord all the descendents of Israel will be found righteous and will exult.

BELIEVERS WILL HAVE A NEW NAME “IN THAT DAY”

• Isa 61:2-3 - That day will be the day of vengeance of God. He will send Jesus to comfort those who mourn, provide for those who grieve in Zion, to bestow on them a crown of beauty and a garment of praise. They will be called “a planting of the Lord” for the display of his splendor.
• Isa 62:2-4 - You will be called a new name that the mouth of the Lord will bestow. No longer will they call you Deserted or name your land Desolate. But you will be called, “The Delight of the Lord” and your land “Beulah,” or married.
• Isa 62:11-12 - Your Savior comes and his reward is with him. You will be called “The Holy People, the Redeemed of the Lord, Sought After and the City No Longer Deserted.” .
• Ezek 48:35 - The name of the city will be “The LORD is There,”
• Zech 8:3 - Jesus will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Jerusalem will be called “The City of Truth,” and the mountain of the Lord Almighty will be called “The Holy Mountain.” ♦ Jer 23:6, 33:14-16 – The Branch will be raised up in that day and will be called, “The Lord our Righteousness.”

INFORMATION REGARDING THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE​

• Zech 1 8-17 - The four horsemen appeared in a vision during the rebuilding of the temple in the 6th century BC just as they will appear at the time of the rebuilding of the tribulation temple in Jerusalem.
• Zech 1:10 – The four horsemen on the colored horses are “the ones the Lord has sent to go throughout the earth.”
• Zech 1:11 – The four horsemen report to Jesus, who was the angel of the Lord in the Old Testament. They are special angels who keep Jesus informed about events on earth relating to his people, the Jews. They also carry out special assignments for Jesus with respect to the Jewish people and the nations of the earth who interact with them.
• Zech 6:1-8 – These verses continue the theme from Zech 1:10. We again see the four horses which go throughout the earth, verse 7. Here we see the horses pulling chariots, verse 1. Verse 5 tells us what these riders on horses really are; they are the four spirits or angels of heaven who stand in the presence of the Lord. We know from Rev 4:6-11, Ezek 1:4-28, 10:1-22, esp vs 20, that these creatures are cherubim, a very special class of angels.

JESUS WILL BE RECOGNIZED AS GOD & THE MESSIAH “IN THAT DAY.” THEY WILL CALL OUT TO HIM AND HE WILL COME AND SAVE THEM

• Zech 12:10-13 – Jesus will pour a spirit of grace upon the Jewish people and they will look on him, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn bitterly because of what they did to him. Jews of every clan will sweep bitterly for Jesus.
• Zech 13:1-6 – On that day the Jews and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will accept Jesus as their savior; they will become cleansed from sin and impurity. They will turn on those leaders who led them astray and did not tell them the truth about Jesus. The leaders, prophets, will be ashamed and make all kinds of excuses for their ignorance.
• Zech 13:8 – In the whole land 2/3 will be struck down and perish; one third will be left in it. Jesus will refine the remaining 1/3 and they will become believers. They will call on the name of Jesus and he will answer them.
• Hosea 2:20-23 – In that day, Israel will finally acknowledge the Lord (they will accept Jesus).
• Hosea 3:4-5 – Israel will live for many days without the blessings of the Lord; finally in the last days they will come trembling to the Lord and to his blessings.
• Hosea 5:14-6:3 – God will carry Israel off with no one to rescue them. Jesus will return to heaven until they admit their guilt and earnestly seek him. Israel will finally return to they Lord and seek Jesus. After two days Jesus will revive them and on the third day he will restore them so they may again live in his presence.
• Joel 2:16-18 - the priests of Israel call on Jesus to return and spare them; he hears them and the bridegroom, Jesus, and the bride, the church, leave their chambers in heaven and return to earth. The Lord takes pity on his people of earth and saves them from sure destruction.
• Isa 4:2-3 - The Branch, Jesus, will be recognized as God by all in Israel in that day.
• Isa 11:10 - In that day, the nations will rally to the Root of Jesse.
• Isa 10:20 - In that day the remnant of Israel will truly rely on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
• Isa 12:1-6 - In that day Israel will praise the Lord, the Holy One of Israel (Jesus), call on his name and make his name known among the nations.
• Isa 29:23 - They will acknowledge the holiness of the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
• Isa 17:7 - In that day men will look to their Maker, and turn to the Holy One of Israel (Jesus).
• Isa 60:16 - Then you will know that I, the Lord am your Savior, The Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
• Isa 19:19-22 - Egypt will turn to God, and become believers in Jesus.
• Isa 25:9 - In that day they will say, “Surely this is our God; let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.
• Isa 29:19 - In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
• Isa 35:4-5 - Be strong, do not fear; our God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you. Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
• Isa 30:19 - O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry out for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you.
• Ezek 16:60-63 - In that day, God will establish an everlasting covenant with Israel, they will finally recognize God and be ashamed.
• Jer 50:4-5 – In that day Judah and Israel will turn to the Lord and bind themselves to God in a new covenant.
• Joel 2:32 – In that day everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
• Joel 3:21 – The bloodguilt of Israel will be pardoned in that day. They are guilty of the blood of Christ and will be forgiven when they finally recognize and accept him for who he is, God.
• Zeph 3:9 – God will purify the lips of the people of the world and they will all call on the name of the Lord (Jesus Christ).
• Zech 3:8-9 – In the model in Zech 3:8-9 a stone representing Jesus, the Branch, is placed in front of Joshua the 6th century BC high priest. This stone has 7 eyes, representing the eyes of the Lord which range throughout the earth, Zech 4:10. These seven eyes represent the sevenfold Holy Spirit (Ezek 4:6) working throughout the world thorough the lampstand with 7 candles, representing the gentile nations of the earth. As God the Father is speaking he says that he will send Jesus and that through him he would remove the sins of this land in a single day. That seems to have two fulfillments. The first is obviously through the death and resurrection of Jesus in his First Coming. The second seems to better fit the context and it applies to the Second Coming of Jesus. When it says “this land” it seems to apply to Israel and the Jewish people. Their major sins concerned recognizing who God really is. They repeatedly fell into idol worship over the centuries. However, their greatest sin was in the rejection of God when he came to personally visit them in the person of Jesus. This sin will be forgiven at the Second Coming of Jesus as Israel corporately and individually call out to Jesus to come back to earth and save them, Zech 13:9, Hosea 5:8-6:3.
• Zech 8:12-15 – Jesus will come to earth and save the remnant of Israel. He will give them an inheritance.
• Zech 10:9-12 – Israel will pass through the sea of trouble while they are scattered among the nations. They will remember God even while they are scattered. However, God will subdue their sea of trouble and re-gather them in the Lord; and in his name they will walk.
• Isa 31:5 - Like birds hovering overhead, the Lord Almighty will shield Jerusalem, he will shield it and deliver it; he will pass over it and will rescue it.
• Isa 63:9-10 - In his love and mercy Jesus saved and redeemed Israel. He lifted them and carried them all the days of old, yet they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit.

JESUS IS CLEARLY PRESENTED AS A PARTNER WITH THE FATHER IN PROPHECY

• Jer 51:19 – It is clearly Jesus who was a descendent of, or Portion of Jacob. Jesus is clearly the creator of all things as presented in Col 1:15-17. Jesus clearly created the very tribe from which he descended. The LORD Almighty is and has always been his name. These words are being spoken by the Father, vs 1.
• Dan 7:13-14, 21-22, 25-27 – In verses 13-14 we see one who is like a son of man, one who is worshipped, approaching the Ancient of Days. The Ancient of Days is clearly the Father God. The son of man is also clearly God and therefore must be Jesus. In verses 21-22 we again see the Ancient of Days, only this time with one called the Most High. We see that a time will come when the saints of the Most High will possess the millennial kingdom. Again this clearly seems to be Jesus. Next in verses 25-27 we see the antichrist speaking out against the saints of the Most High, and ruling over them for 3 ½ years. The power of the antichrist is broken at that time and the kingdom of heaven is handed over to the saints of the Most High. We are told that this kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and that all rulers will obey the Most h\High. From Rev 11:15 and 19:11-16 we clearly see that the one that is presented as the Most High is Jesus.
• Zech 2:6-9 – This is very clearly Jesus speaking. He presents himself as the one who will personally punish those who plunder Israel. He says that he is sent by God the Father. Jesus refers to Israel as “the apple of God’s eye.”

THE TEMPLE WILL BE REBUILT AND IN USE IN THE TRIBULATION

• Ezek 40:1-4 - Ezekiel is shown a vision of the rebuilt temple. There is a man with a bronze glow measuring the temple area. This may be a vision of John measuring the temple in the future from Rev 11:1-2. The temple area is described in detail in Ezek 40-43.
• Ezek 43:1-5 - Ezek sees the Holy Spirit returning to the tribulation temple in the future, The Spirit returns via the Eastern Gate. The Eastern Gate is to remain shut, Ezek 44:1-3.
• Ezek 43:10-11 – The design of the tribulation temple was also to be used for Zerubbabel’s temple which was rebuilt in the period 518-514 BC.
• Zech 1:11-17 – There will be a period of rest and peace all over the world that will precede the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem. This may apply to both the second and the final temples.