I freely admit that I do not now, nor have I ever possessed, a chart to serve as a road map of End Times events. I subscribe to the notion that the best teacher of how things are going to be fulfilled at Christ’s Second Coming is the way things were fulfilled at His First Coming. And for me it was not so much about specific dates and times as much as it was about milestones. God does not predict in advance what will happen during every second of every minute of every hour, but He does provide checkpoints along the way to testify that the overall plan is on a genuine path to fulfillment. And in the Last Days, one of the most significant milestones is Jerusalem.
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The most repeated event associated with the Last Days which is also warned about more than any other is deception, both in the general population of the world’s unsaved but particularly among God’s people. In the modern sense of the word, “deception” is most often associated with someone deceiving or tricking an unwitting victim. In the biblical definition it is a very long process by which the willing voluntarily and consistently choose what they know to be wrong so that the inevitable end result is that they are given over to deception. Spiritually deceived people are simply given over to the very thing they have been pursuing all along.
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It fascinates me how many things in general people know to be associated with the Bible such as the fact that God will cause the Jews to return to the land of Israel. Yes, it is a indisputable milestone testifying to the imminent return of Christ and a host of other events to follow. But I am equally fascinated by the fact that because so few seem to read the specific details of such things as provided in actual Scripture, a basic error has taken root. What we see in verses such as these, and which will be greatly expanded on in the rest of Zechariah going forward, is that it is not merely a physical return but a spiritual one.
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The messages through Haggai and Zechariah basically come between the 4th and 5th chapters of Ezra, which is the reason for the Walk with the Word reading schedule breaking up the book of Ezra in this manner. Under extremely unfavorable earthly circumstances they have returned to the land for the sole purpose of rebuilding the Temple and have only gotten only as far as laying the foundation before they give up. Yes, there was visible resistance against their efforts, but the truth is that it was not going the way they expected. Those “who had seen the first temple, wept” at the realization of how far it was falling short in comparison to the first one. ^[1] It was not a project that had been derailed by earthly forces, but really more the case that they took the opportunity to set it aside in the name of that opposition because it really was not going the way they had expected anyway.
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