Christians please clarify this biblical quote?

Question

Please explain the concept of morality as well...

" Lo, a day shall come for the Lord when the spoils shall be divided in your midst. And I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle: the city shall be taken, houses plundered, women ravished; half of the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be removed from the city. (Zechariah 14:1-2 NAB)

Answer 1

yo!! morning,breakfast is ready,lets go to war and capture a city. we shall ruin said city,let some people run away, the rest are staying (husquarana 28:11-06 GU1)

Answer 2

I believe this has already come to pass, but I may be wrong.

It was promised that since the Jew's were the only people wicked enough to crucify their own Savior that their cursing for doing so would be a hatred from all mankind till the end of time when Christ comes again. When Christ comes the second time the Jew's will readily repent and accept the Messiah as Jesus Christ and bow down and worship him.

Answer 3

Zec 14:1 -
Behold the Day of the Lord cometh - Literally, “a day cometh, the Lord’s,” in which He Himself shall be Judge, and no longer leave man to fulfill his own will, and despise God’s; in which His glory and holiness and the righteousness of all His ways shall be revealed.
And thy spoil shall be in the midst of thee - Jerome: “How great will the strait be, that the spoils should be divided in the midst of her. It often happens that what, by a sudden assault, is plundered in the city, is divided in the field or in solitude, lest the enemy should come upon them. But now there will be such a heavy weight of ills, such will be the security of conquest, that the spoils shall be divided in the midst of the city.”

Zec 14:2 -
I Will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle - This is a feature which belongs to the end. It had been dwelt upon by Joel; Joe_3:2-9, Joe_3:11; Ezekiel spoke of the “many nations” Eze_38:6, Eze_38:15, Eze_38:22 which should come under Gog. John foretells of an universal strife at the end, when “The spirits of devils, working miracles, go forth unto the king; of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty” Rev_16:14; and “Satan shall be loosed out of his prison and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints round about, and the beloved city” Rev_20:7-9. Since no creature can do aught but what God wills, and, in his phrensy against God’s people, is but His instrument, “to try them and to purge and to make white to the time of the end” Dan_11:35; Dan_12:10; and the strength of body or intellect, which is abused against His law, He continuously in the order of nature supplies, God may be said to do what Satan does against Him. Satan, in his blind fury, crowns martyrs, fills the thrones of heaven, works, against his will, the All-wise Will of God.
And the houses rifled, and the women ... - The horrors of pagan war repeat themselves through people’s ever-recurring passions. What was foretold as to Babylon is repeated in the same words as to the Church of God. Seemingly “all things” come “alike to all Ecc_9:2 : there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean and to the unclean: to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner.” The outward event is the same, the hidden part is known to God alone. “And the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city,” unlike the lot of the earthly Jerusalem, in the destruction both by Nebuchadnezzar (which was past) and the Romans (see at Mic_3:12, pp. 46-50). At the first, “Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, carried away the rest of the people left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude” 2Ki_25:11, so that Jeremiah mourned over it, “Because of the mountain of Zion which is desolate, foxes walk” (habitually) “upon it” Lam_5:18. The Romans (see at pp. 46, 47) “effaced the city.” Now “a remnant is not cut off,” because “for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened” Mat_24:32; for our Lord had said, that “the gates of hell should not prevail against” His Church Mat_16:18.

Answer 4

ah, yes, talking about armageddon. the spoils obiously are the rewards for those loyal to jesus, the inheritance of the kingdom of heaven. jerusalem, in a jewish nation, amongst islamic nations has always experienced international hostilities, also meaning that jerusalem and israel will be the battlefront for armaggedon. in revalation the bible talks about a multitude of jews in israel and jerusalem (most likely converted to christianity) that god will protect and hide in the mountains, and while the anti-christ is laying waste to the rest of the world they will be safe from his destruction.

Answer 5

Sounds like Jerusalem as it is at the moment. Divided among the Jews and Muslims...

Answer 6

This is the same battle prophesized as is in Revelation 19. It is the final battle, when Christ returns to fight agains the nations that are seeking to annilate Israel.

Answer 7

1099 AD, Christians during the first crusade went in, slaughtered scores of muslims and jews, then promptly lost the city to Saladin.

Answer 8

Please understand that we must view any passage in the Bible in its proper context, which here is one of prophecy. This is not a statement on morality; theft and rape are certainly not moral. However, the Old Testament is filled with the cycle of straying from God, God bringing His wrath on those who stray, then God restoring and forgiving. This passage is prophecy to say that there are consequences to straying from God. It is NOT justifying theft and rape. It is a call to walk closely with God, with warning to those who wander away and pursue selfish interests.

Answer 9

What God is saying is that one day He will judge this world and the people living here. And the nations will try and stand up against Him, but they will fail. Period.
Jesus is comming back, and boy is He mad

Answer 10

You are only posting this question because of ur previous one about wanting to use a religious girl for sex.

God was wrathful and angry, because He has tried every tactic to get people to come to him without affecting free will. It just so happens that love turned out to be the best way!