141 Behold , a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you. 2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle , and the city will be captured , the houses plundered , the women ravished and half of the city exiled e , but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city . 3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations , as when He fights on a day of battle . 4 In that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives , which is in front of Jerusalem on the east ; and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley , so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Zechariah 14:1-4
Commentary on Zechariah 14:1-7
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The Lord Jesus often stood upon the Mount of Olives when on earth. He ascended from thence to heaven, and then desolations and distresses came upon the Jewish nation. Such is the view taken of this figuratively; but many consider it as a notice of events yet unfulfilled, and that it relates to troubles of which we cannot now form a full idea. Every believer, being related to God as his God, may triumph in the expectation of Christ's coming in power, and speak of it with pleasure. During a long season, the state of the church would be deformed by sin; there would be a mixture of truth and error, of happiness and misery. Such is the experience of God's people, a mingled state of grace and corruption. But, when the season is at the worst, and most unpromising, the Lord will turn darkness into light; deliverance comes when God's people have done looking for it.