Shabbat Shalom everyone. Open your Bible to the last chapter of the prophet Zechariah. Remember we are studying the prophet Zechariah and his message to the Jewish remnant to return from Babel to the city of Yerushalayim. So we turn to Zechariah chapter 14, please. And the last portion that we have before us today, beginning from verse 16 to verse 21, and I'm reading: And it shall come to pass that everyone that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. And it shall be that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.

And if the family of Egypt go not up and come not that have no rain, there shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses holiness unto Jehovah. "And the pots of the Lord's house shall be like the bells before the altar. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judea shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts. And all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seeth therein, and in that day shall there be no more the Canaanites in the house of the Lord of hosts." Imagine, we are actually officially reading the last verses of the prophet Zechariah.

And so here we are at the end of the revelation that Zechariah, the Hebrew prophet, had received from the Lord concerning the future that Israel will enjoy. And not only Israel, beloved brothers and sisters, but the whole world will enjoy this wonderful period of time that the Bible really calls it the Kingdom Age. In fact, the theme or the subject of this message today is really the Messianic Kingdom. The future day that we are looking forward, and many times we learn from the Word of God concerning this coming beautiful day. Now, reminding you as we are moving on into these verses that the fact that there will be such a glorious day that the whole world will enjoy in this future day that is ahead of us.

It is really ought to be the desire of everyone that read the Bible, the Word of God. Every person, whether he is Jewish or non-Jewish, whether he is a boy or girl, men or women, whoever we are, whoever we are, specifically those of us who belong to Yeshua, who are part of the assembly, of the ecclesia, we ought to have this desire in our heart looking forward for this glorious day that is yet to appear in the future day. And not only because we desire this, beloved brothers and sisters, but it is really in the program of God, in the plan of God. In other words, if we do not wish and long for this wonderful age, we are really not in line with the thoughts that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that Yeshua, the Mashiach, the Messiah, have in his heart.

In fact, I want you just for a moment to turn to Matthew chapter 6, if you will. And I want you to see what Yeshua taught his very own disciples already there years ago, when he was here upon the face of this earth. I want you just to see what he taught them to pray. If you remember Matthew chapter 6, we just had it in our reading a few minutes ago. Matthew chapter 6, and listen to this prayer that Yeshua have taught the disciples in Israel, his own Hebrew disciples, to pray. He says in verse 8, "Be not therefore like unto them, for your Father knoweth what things he have need of before you ask him.

After this manner therefore pray, our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come." In Hebrew, "Avinu sheba shamaim, yitkadash shimcha, tavo malchutcha, thy kingdom come." That was the desire and the prayer of those early disciples when they were living in Galilee, in the Galilee, in the north of Israel. They were taught by the Messiah Yeshua on the Sermon on the Mount when he was presenting his teaching. The multitude were learning, the disciples were learning. And one of the things that he taught them to pray, "Thy kingdom come." Why does he ask them to pray in such a way? Because, beloved brothers and sisters, all the kingdoms that have been established by men over the many generations, all those kingdoms really did not arise to that which God had expected for men.

The greatest king, the greatest leader, the greatest monarch always came short of what God had expected for mankind. And the whole world is looking for a king to come who will finally reign and rule in righteousness. But unfortunately, before they will accept the true and living Messiah, Yeshua himself, they will end up to accept the false Messiah who will actually lead the nations yet astray. So, I would like to dwell a little bit about the Messianic Kingdom. And I would like to connect these last verses with previous verses that we have in the Word of God. Now, let me just say one thing. You notice, as we read this chapter, that three times the word "The Feast of Tabernakal" in Hebrew, "Chag Sukkot" is mentioned.

You notice, verse 16, "The Feast of Tabernakal", verse 18, "The Feast of Tabernakal", verse 19 at the end, "The Feast of Tabernakal". Three times we find here in this passage, Zechariah 14, 16, 14, 18, 14, 19, three times we find the name of "Chag Sukkot", the Feast of Tabernakals that is mentioned here. Why is it that we have this feast so prominent here in those last verses of the prophet Zechariah? Let me remind you, the Lord had given our own people seven feasts. In Hebrew we call it "Moadei Yehovah", seven appointed seasons that God had given His own people Israel a long time ago. You'll find it very clearly presented before us in Leviticus chapter 23.

Now every feast, every Moadei, every appointed season that God had given Israel our nation is really linked, number one, with the person of the Messiah. Number two, it's linked with the blessing that God intended for Israel and the nations of the world. So, if you know those seven feasts, then we can just repeat them. We have the Feast of Passover first. Then we have the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Following by the Feast of First Fruit. Immediately, 50 days after that, it's followed by the Feast of Weeks. And then later on in the Fall Feasts of Jehovah, we have the Feast of Trumpet. Then we have the Day of Atonement or the Feast of Atonement.

And the last feast in Jewish history is the feast that is called Tabernacles. In Hebrew, we call it Sukkot, the Feast of Booths. So every one of these seven feasts present before us something in relationship, first of all, to the nation of Israel, but link it with the person of our Lord, Yeshua the Messiah. So we have Pesach, Matzot, Katsir, Shavuot, Teruah, Kippur, and Sukkot. I'm just giving this to you in Hebrew, so you will hear this as well in the Hebrew language. And everyone, beloved brothers and sisters of these seven feasts, link with the person of the Messiah. Then we have immediately the Feast of Chagamatzot, the unleavened bread.

We read, let us celebrate the feast with the unleavened bread of sincerity in truth. The Messiah, Yeshua, there was no leaven in him. He was a pure man, sin apart. He lived a life that pleased God throughout his 33 years of life here in this world. Then we have the Feast of Katsir, or first fruit. Immediately, three days after he died, when he was hung on a tree on the cross, they placed him in a tomb. And if you remember, up from the grave he arose. This first fruit speaks about the resurrection of the Messiah. We find it in 1 Corinthians chapter 15 that he became the first fruit by his resurrection of all them that slept.

So we see the first three feasts that God had given to Israel had been already fulfilled in the person of the Messiah. He was the Messiah. He was the Pesach. He was the Matzot. He was the Katsir. He died for our sins. He was living a perfect life, unleavened bread. He rose from among the dead. We see thoroughly and throughout Scripture how this only could be fulfilled in the person of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah. Well, fifty days after the resurrection of the Messiah, we have a fourth feast that is called in Hebrew Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks. Seven weeks, seven times seven, forty-nine plus the day after makes it fifty.

In the Greek is Pentecost. In the Hebrew is Shavuot. And if you remember, beloved brothers and sisters, the church, the assembly was born on the Feast of Weeks, when the Holy Spirit of God descended from heaven and formed the body of the Mashiach, the body of the Messiah, on the feast that is called Shavuot. In fact, another word we can give to that, the word origination, the beginning of the origin of the new covenant that God made with the house of Judah and with the house of Israel. On the basis of the blood that he shed, he formed the new covenant, which now Jew and Gentile are united together in the body of Messiah.

And that's where we are today, even two thousand years later. So we have the first four feasts that have been already past history from our point of view. But then we know that there are three more feasts that are yet ahead in the program of God. The Feast of Trumpet, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. And finally, the feast that is called Sukkot, the Tabernacles, of which we read here in Zechariah chapter 14. In those last feasts that God had given to our people Israel, we see the future program of God. Yom Toa, the blowing of the trumpet, speaks about the regathering of the nation of Israel to the land.

The physical regathering of the nation of Israel to the land of the Bible, to the land of Israel. You can read it in many passages, including Matthew chapter 24, that he will send his angels and they will gather the nation of Israel out of all the four corners of the earth to be brought to the land of the Bible, the land of Israel. Then a few days later, we have what is called Yom Kippur of the Day of Atonement, of which we already read in Zechariah chapter 12 and then verse 10, where Israel will recognize Yeshua, the Messiah. And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and supplication, and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced.

That's the day of atonement, where there will be a national confession, when Israel, the nation, will repent and recognize that Yeshua, the Messiah, was the one that they have neglected to accept for such a long time, as far as you and I are concerned. 2,000 years have passed since the Messiah died on the tree, and 2,000 years our Jewish people are scattered throughout all the nations of the world. There is not a nation where Jewish people are not found, struggling in their lives, hated by the nations of the world, persecuted from generation to generation. And I can tell you, beloved brothers and sisters, that we are heading towards the climax of the hatred that will rise against the Jewish people, which the climax will come at the tribulation period, of which we read also in our chapter, if you remember in the previous chapter that we have read in chapter 13, verse 8, This great tribulation that will produce the day of atonement, the national repentance of the nation of Israel, is still yet to come to pass in the future day, where Israel will recognize Yeshua, the Messiah.

And that's what we know with the program of God, it is called really Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, the national repentance of the nation of Israel. So the only thing that we have left here at the end of the tribulation will be one wonderful feast that is called Sukkot or tabernacles. The feast of tabernacles take us beyond the tribulation period, it takes us to a glorious age, in which the Messiah Yeshua will reign over his nation Israel, and over the nations of this world. And you remember, it's a time of celebration, where they must celebrate, we read it from the book of Deuteronomy, they must have joy in their heart, and celebration of God's provision, and taking care of the nation of Israel.

And in these last verses, this man, Zechariah, who is now preaching to a Jewish remnant, who just finished to build the second temple, and he is encouraging them, he says, listen, yes, the Messiah will come, and will be rejected, but there is a coming day that he will be accepted, and there will be this glorious celebration that all the nations of the world will participate in this great celebration that is called the Feast of Tabernacles. We can really say, beloved brothers and sisters, whenever you read the word tabernacles, you should put next to it the kingdom age, the Messianic kingdom. Now, the Old Testament saints never knew how long this kingdom will last.

Not Isaiah, not Jeremiah, not Ezekiel, including Zechariah, they did not know how long that kingdom will last. The only way that we know how long that kingdom will last is by reading Revelation chapter 20, which John received a revelation from the glorified Mashiach, Yeshua, who told John, who told John, the lengths of this millennial age, or the kingdom age, I should say, will be 1,000 years long. Can you imagine, brothers and sisters, a kingdom that will last for 1,000 years, where there will be a time of blessing that will flow here to the nations of the world. This is an amazing truth to get a hold of as we study over this beautiful time here in the last verses of chapter 14.

So, Zechariah is now concluding his final revelation that he received, sharing it with the remnant that returned from Babel. And so he began, notice that, by the way, in verses 16 to 19, in our chapters, Zechariah chapter 14, we have a worldwide worship of King Messiah in the city of Jerusalem. A worldwide worship that is yet to occur in the coming day, the worship of the Messiah, but is going to be really happening specifically in the city of Jerusalem. So let's just look over them and I'll connect with some other verses as well. Look what he says in verse 16, first of all. In verse 16, we learn that there will be delegations from all the nations of the world that will be sent to worship the king in the city of Jerusalem.

It says here in verse 16, and it shall come to pass. Now, I want to lift up some words out of this verse that I think is very nice to see. First of all, it says that everyone that is left, now what does it mean that is left? In other words, you remember that we just studied earlier in chapter 14, that there will be the gathering of all the nations against the people of Israel. You remember God said in chapter 14, and I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle. The city, as we have talked about, they will be taken. The houses will be rifled. Women will be ravished.

Half of the city shall go forced into captivity, and the leftover of the people will remain there in the city. In other words, what the Lord already said to Zechariah in the previous verses, he's speaking about the fact that there is coming a day where all the nations are going to come against the city of Jerusalem and the people of Judah. But now the Lord came, and he defeated those nations that sought to destroy Jerusalem and the people of Judah and the people of Jerusalem. The Lord himself, you remember we read this in the verses after then, that the Lord will come. It says in verse 3, the Lord will go forth and he will fight against those nations as when he fought in the day of battle.

The Messiah will come, the second coming, and he will destroy the enemies that rose against the nation of Israel. But apparently, he will not destroy all of them because there will be some of them from the nations of the world that will realize that he is that true Messiah. That he is the promised one that has been promised to the people of Israel. So there will be what you call a residue, a leftover nations that will not be judged and will not enter into the eternal separation from the Messiah. They will remain here in this world, and they will continue to live in this world, but they will believe that Yeshua is the Messiah.

There will be these leftover people of the world, as it says here in verse 16, everyone that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem. In other words, there will be those that will remain here. Can you imagine? There will be people who will be left here in every nations of the world. Those who will believe the God of Israel and will accept Yeshua as the Messiah. So what they will have to do, they will actually have to participate in the celebration that we have instructed in the Bible, in the feast that is called the Feast of Sukkot, the Feast of Booth. So what's going to happen here?

They will come, notice that, every one of them will come every year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and keep the Feast of Tabernacle. You know, somebody said, well, it is not possible that all the nations of the world will gather in Jerusalem every year. There are so many people who are going to be living here in this world during the Kingdom Age. How is it possible? Well, I want to suggest to you, they will not all come, but they will send delegation, even Israel, in Deuteronomy chapter 16. Not every Jewish man came every feast to the city of Jerusalem, but the mail came, delegations came, representation of the families and the tribes have come every year to represent the family and the rest of the tribes in the city of Jerusalem.

Well, it's going to be very similar. They're going to come, they're going to send representation to the city of Jerusalem and notice, brothers and sisters, it says they're going to come from year to year. Apparently, what we learn from here, that what John received in Revelation chapter 20, that there will be 1,000 years in the Kingdom. Well, every year of these 1,000 years, there will be those that will be brought to the city of Jerusalem to represent their people and their nation in the city of Jerusalem. Notice another word here that is important to lift up here. It says in verse 16, everyone that is left, that were against Jerusalem, shall even go up from year to year.

Now, notice the word go up. Now, we just sang the song, come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. The Hebrew word here, to go up, it's the word la'alot. It's come from the Hebrew word aliyah. You know, every Jewish person who immigrate to Israel today, we say, oh, did you make aliyah? Did you go up? Did you immigrate to Israel? It is an expression that we still use today in Israel when a person is immigrating to the city of Jerusalem. You don't say it when you arrive to Canada or you go to the States or any other country.

You only say it when you immigrate to the land of Israel. We call it aliyah. Now, notice how many times that word aliyah is being mentioned here. Verse 16, even go up, ve'alu. Notice it says verse 17, come up, ve'alu, or ala. And a little bit in verse 18, up again, ta'ale, to go up. And again, it's mentioned about four, verse 18 again, it mentioned about five times in these verses to go up. And why do we say to go up? Because literally, if you're going to Jerusalem today, you can't help it. But you're going on the windy hills of Judea, and you literally go physically up to the city of Jerusalem.

When you go out of Jerusalem, you go down, you're red. And by the way, when a person leaves the land of Israel, and he's no longer living in Jerusalem, we call him, we say to him, did you, ha'im yaradeta? Did you go down of Israel? This is an expression we still use today. Every Israeli who was born and raised in Israel, lived a few years in his life, and then he left Israel? We use this expression, hu yarad. He went down. In other words, going to Jerusalem is always up. Going out of Jerusalem, it's always down. Let me make an illustration. You remember this man in Luke 10?

There was a certain man who went down from Jerusalem to Jericho. It is a literal down, going all the way down to Jericho. And you remember, he was caught among thieves. And he was stripped. And he was left half dead until the Samaritan came, who is a type of the Messiah, to assist him, and to bring him into the inn, and to take care of these men. So, it is interesting how Jerusalem is always looked upon as a city that is high and lifted up, because God set his name in the city of Jerusalem. So, in verse 16, those verses are very important. Now, notice another word that I want to point out here in verse 16.

It says that every year they will come to worship the king. And you notice that king, according to verse 16, is none else but Jehovah of hosts. Now, again, it is one of those verses that shows us the humanity of the Messiah and the divine nature of the Messiah. He is that king, the man, and yet he is none else but divine person, God the Son. Go back to chapter 9 of Zechariah. I want you to see that king there is mentioned. You remember? We read in Zechariah chapter 9 and verse 9. It says, Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion. Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem. Behold, thy king cometh unto thee.

He is just, and he hath salvation, lowly and riding upon an ass and upon a cold to the fall of an ass. Verse 10. And I will cut off the chariots from Ephraim, and the horses from Jerusalem, and the battle boar shall be cut off, and he, that same king, shall speak shalom unto the heathen, and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and for river even unto the end of the earth. That's the king. He came the first time, he was rejected. He came the second time, he will be accepted. And then he's going to rule as the king of kings, and as lord of lords.

So, the nations are going to come. And you know, it is an amazing thought, just to think about it, especially today, when you look around, and you see how God is rejected by the world, the vast majority of the world. And the name of Jesus, the name of Yeshua, is being despised. They use his name only for swear word, the vast majority of the people today in this world. And yet there is coming a day when he's going to be totally different, beloved brothers and sisters. Everyone will have to recognize that he is the Messiah by the end of the tribulation. And everyone will recognize that he's the only one that deserves worship, and adoration, and praise.

And that's a great time that will happen. And the world is longing for this time, looking for it somewhere else, not recognizing that the only place that he can look, that should look, is in the Bible, in God's word, where the Messiah is being presented before us. And they're going to come to worship him. They're going to come to fall at his feet and worship Yeshua, the Messiah. You remember the blind man in John 9? How the Lord gave him his sight? And he says, Do you believe on the Son of God? And he says to him, the blind man that used to be blind, he says, Who is he, Lord, that I will believe on him?

And he says, It is I. And then he fell at his feet. And he worshipped him. He fell at his feet. He recognized him as the one who deserves the worship and the praise from the heart of everyone. Here in this world, during coming a day, that the nations of the world will come and they will have to recognize that he is the Messiah. They will not be afraid of him, but they will come to worship him. And they're going to come at that time, as it is spoken wonderfully here in these last verses of the prophet Zechariah. Now, turn with me for a second to Isaiah chapter 2.

The first five verses of this chapter are just to read them and comment something. The word that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. Notice again, Judah, Jerusalem. The Messiah came from Judah. Jerusalem is the city of the great king. The city that God has set his name there. Verse 2. And it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain, the kingdom, the mountain of the Lord's house, shall be established in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills. And all nations, listen, brothers and sisters, shall flow unto it. And many people shall go, and they will say, Come ye, let us go up unto the mountain of the Lord, unto the house of the God of Jacob, and he shall teach us his ways, and we will walk in his path.

For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. This is a beautiful verse. Ki mitzion tetzei Torah, ve'dvar Adonai meh Yerushalayim. Out of Zion shall go forth the law. That's the way God has established this. Not because Israel is better, not because the Jewish people are superior, because that's the way God has set it in his word. He is going to fulfill what he planned it in his program. He must do so. He must be true to his word. Out of Zion shall go forth the law. And the word of the Lord will come out of the city of Yerushalayim.

What a day, beloved brothers, it's going to be when the nations will come to celebrate the feast of Tabernacle, namely to celebrate the kingdom age and God's provision through the Messiah Yeshua. This will be a glorious time. So those words that I wanted to lift up out of verse 16, such as those that will be left, the remnant of the Gentiles, and then they will go up to the city of Jerusalem, and they're going to come for the purpose of the worship of the king of Israel, the king of kings and lord of lords. And it will happen, as it says here, on the feast of Sukkot, the feast of Tabernacle.

So every year, so some people ask, well, Brother Gideon, will people celebrate the feasts that God had given Israel historically in the Messianic kingdom? Well, at least from this passage, we understand that they will celebrate the feast of Sukkot. Every year, they're going to go to celebrate the feast of Tabernacle in the land of Israel. Now, let's move on, and we'll see what happens now in the next verse 17. What's going to happen if someone will decide, they will say, listen, you know what? I don't have to go to Jerusalem. I don't have to be part of a delegation that's going to go to worship the king in the city of Jerusalem.

And apparently, because it is not the eternal order, even in the kingdom age, sin still will be happening in this world. The kingdom age, the thousand years reign of the Messiah, is not the eternal order of Revelation 21 and 22. Even in this glorious age, as great as it is, it still will have those that will somehow fall into sin and will rebel against the king of kings and lord of lords. And so some, listen to verse 17, and it shall be that whoso will not come up, mi shaloh ya'aleh, who that will not go up, of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the king, the lord of hosts, even unto them shall be no rain.

Now, in other words, you can see, beloved brothers and sisters, that there will be those who will say, you know what? I don't have to go to Jerusalem. I don't want to go to the city of Jerusalem to worship the king. Well, God is going to discipline those nations. And the first thing that we find out, the fact that there will be no rain. Now, it is interesting because we know that rain, it's always, in the Bible, speaks about the shower of the blessings of God upon the nations of the world. Years ago, and it's come to Israel, the Jewish people, the people of Israel, they were not lawyers and doctors and businessmen.

They were farmers. They were shepherds. They were not computer giants at that time. You know, there was not even computers some 3,500 years ago. You couldn't have your iPad, and you can have some of these genius Jewish men who is able to tell you and to put all sort of things in the computer. They were simply farmers. They were shepherds. They worked the ground. And they depended. The essential of the rain that would come in a spring and in a fall was very important for the nation of Israel. So rain shows us the blessing that God provided for the nation. If there is rain, there is crop.

If there is crop, there is bread. If there is bread, there is food to eat. And therefore, you can be satisfied with the provision that God had given you through the land. But what's going to happen if there will be no rain? If there is no rain, then you are deprived of that which is necessary to even meet your own personal needs. And so God says, if whosoever will not come up, of all the families that are on the face of this earth to go to the city of Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them there shall be no rain.

Therefore, they will see the consequence of rejection of the King, the Messiah. That will be one of the judgments that will fall upon those who will refuse to submit to the authority of the King. Turn to Psalm 66. It's in connection with this. The verses that I read are the earlier verses of this Psalm. We read in verse 1, Make joyful noise unto God, all ye lands. Sing forth the honor of His name. Make His praise glorious. Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works. Listen to this, what the psalmist says, Through the greatness of thy power, thine enemies will submit themselves unto thee. All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee.

They shall sing thy name, Selah. Here's the psalmist, prophetically looking to the Messianic kingdom. And he's saying, Look, the way that the world will ultimately submit to the Messiah, even during the kingdom age, specifically for those who will not want to come to worship the King. He is a King and judge here in this world. He will rule, and he will, as he says here, through the greatness of thy power, even your enemies eventually will end up to submit themselves unto thee. And this is very well connected with verse 17 of Zechariah chapter 14, that if those will not come to worship the King in the city of Jerusalem, even they will have no rain.

And no rain means that God will shut the windows of heaven, and the rain will not fall upon those nations that will refuse to come to the city of Jerusalem. And I'm wondering sometimes, how will God do so? I mean, he can shut one area, and then open it in another area. It reminds me of one time when I was driving from here home to Niagara, and I was driving with pouring rain. And then all of a sudden, no rain. I drive 60 miles an hour, and then all of a sudden, there is like there is a line where the rain did not fall. It was dry like anything, as if God had put a line in glory in heaven, and cut the sky into two.

this side was completely dry, the other side was totally wet. The greatness of God's power, His ability to bless in one area, and to judge in another, to pour rain in one location, and another location, not to win those nations who will refuse to come to worship the king through his greatness, they will end up to submit to his authority. That's what we have in verse 17. Beloved brothers and sisters, now notice that we're moving on, because we have only a few verses here at the end of this chapter. In verses 18 and 19, the Spirit of God is zeroing on the nation that is called Mitzrayim, Egypt.

Now, I often, when I study this passage, I wonder why did God mention here only specifically one nation, called the nation of Mitzrayim, the people of Egypt. Notice it says in verse 18, And if the family of Egypt go not up and come not that have no rain, there shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the Feast of Tabernacle. Verse 19, And this shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that come not up to keep the Feast of Tabernacle. Now, he's speaking obviously about all the nations of the world, but he's mentioning one specific name of a nation that in Hebrew we call it Mitzrayim.

In English, of course, it is the land, the people of Egypt, or the nation called Egypt. Now, why is Egypt is mentioned here? And let me suggest to you on a basis of the Word of God. If you remember, beloved brothers and sisters, that Israel, as a nation, was born when they were delivered from the land of Egypt. Egypt historically had many, many gods. We read it in Exodus chapter 12, that God has a case against the gods of Egypt. They had many, many gods. You read it in Exodus chapter 12. And the true and living God delivered his people out of bondage, out of idolatry of a nation that had gods and idols, in order to bring them to himself, to be a separated nation, a nation that devoted totally to the Lord.

And you remember he sent Moses to the land of Egypt. And I want to read the verses that we read about Egypt in Exodus chapter 4. You remember? Moses was sent to go to Egypt. And it says in Exodus chapter 4 and verse 21, The Lord said unto Moses, When you go and return into Egypt, see that you do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand, and I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go. Then verse 22, And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah, Israel is my son, even my firstborn. I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me.

And if thou wilt refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn. Chapter 5 and verse 1, And afterward Moses and Aaron went, and they told Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Let my people go, that they will hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. And notice what Pharaoh said in verse 2. Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah? That I should obey his voice to let Israel go. I know not Jehovah, neither will I let Israel go. The king of Egypt said to Moses, Who is Jehovah? Who is this Jehovah that I will let Israel go? And he did not let Israel go.

And you remember the 10 plagues, Aseret HaMakot. One by one, God have judged Egypt, until finally he have allowed Israel to go out of the land of Egypt. He took those plagues and the judgment of God to deliver his people Israel out of slavery and bondage. But Pharaoh refused to let Israel go. You know when he finally realized that he must let them go? When the firstborn of every Egyptian home died because of the refusal to let the people of Israel go. Now God does not find a pleasure in the death of anyone. But God demands his glory to be accepted and acknowledged by mankind. And Egypt is a representation of the world and its system that rejects God.

And rejects the truth concerning the living God. And so Egypt is mentioned here. Because Egypt becomes an example to all the nations of the world. And Egypt might say, during the Kingdom Age, He says, Wow, why should I send delegation to go to Jerusalem? And they will look back at the history and they're going to say, Wow, many, many years ago, When these people of Israel were enslaved by us. And then they're going to say, Well, we let them go and look at what happened to us. And they might say, We're not going to do what we have done in the past. We are not going to go.

We are not going to submit. Well, God says, And he's really zeroing on the Egyptians, But he's really speaking of all the nations of the world. Also, notice the word for plague. Interesting that the word plague, The Hebrew word here is magepha. It reminds us of the ten magephot, The ten plagues that have fallen upon Egypt Some years ago, Before the time when God delivered Israel out of the land of Egypt. So God says, There shall be a plague wherewith Jehovah will smite the heathen that come not up and keep the feast of tabernacle. It will be mandatory to keep that feast. Everyone will be obliged to come to Jerusalem to celebrate that feast.

It's not a matter of necessarily you like it or you don't like it, But it is a celebration that God will demand from those who will live here in this world during the kingdom age. Again, I want to repeat a word that is mentioned again and again. In verse 16, Worship the king. Verse 17, Worship the king. Verse 18, Keep the feast. Verse 19, Keep the feast. Notice, Worship and keeping. The word of keeping is Lachog, to celebrate the feast of the tabernacle which is representing the kingdom age and the celebration of what God have done through Yeshua the Messiah. Now, these last two verses we have the Messianic kingdom will be characterized by holiness unto the Lord.

You know, today, there is so much unholiness that exists in the world. Unholiness, unfortunately, even in the lives of God's people, the believers. And God desires that there will be Kedushah, holiness unto the Lord. He is holy? He said to Israel in Leviticus chapter 11, Be ye holy for I am holy. God demands that there will be separation unto him. And the word for holy simply means Lekadesh, to be set apart for God. And so, in these last verses, we see in the Messianic kingdom, the whole kingdom will be characterized by a time of separation unto the Lord. Notice a few things that we find here in these verses 20 and 21.

First of all, in verse 20a, we find out that even the bells that will be upon the horses will be holiness unto the Lord. Notice verse 20, In that day there shall be upon the bells of the horses holiness unto the Lord. Now imagine, the horses have those bells that are on their body as they ride upon them, as they use them, and they will have this written on the bells, k'dushah, kadosh le'elohim, kadosh le'ehova, holy unto the Lord. Even the bells upon the horses will be set apart, designated for Jehovah, for the Lord. Now do you remember that this expression, holiness unto the Lord, the only one that had this mitre, you remember when Aaron, the high priest, had this mitre, and he had something upon his mitre that it says, kadosh le'adonai, holiness unto Jehovah.

Aaron, when he went to serve in the tabernacle, he was devoting himself to the service of God. This mitre represented that he is coming to the presence of God set apart for Jehovah, for the Lord. Well, in the future day in the messianic kingdom, even those horses that represent what they've been used in the past for warfare, and for fighting, and for conflict, now they are going to be representing that which is set apart for God in the future day. the bells of the horses shall have this sign holiness unto the Lord. But not only the bells upon the horses, it says here in verse 20b, listen to this, in verse 21a, it says even the pots, it says and the pots of the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar.

Now, apparently, first of all, we find out that there will be a temple there because it says the Lord's house. So there will be a temple established in the Messianic kingdom. You can read about this temple in Ezekiel chapter 40 all the way to the end of the book of Ezekiel. Apparently, there will be a temple built, the Messiah will reign from this temple in the city of Jerusalem and the service and the worship will be conducted in this future day in the temple. and the pots and the bowls that will be there for the Lord's house will be holiness unto the Lord. It will be set apart for God.

But not only that, you know, you can understand, okay, the pots and the bowls will be set apart for the Lord, but then notice that even every home, it says in verse 21a, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judea shall be holiness unto the Lord. Now imagine you sisters, you ladies, you're making some meal to your husband, and you are cooking in a pot in the kitchen of your home. Imagine even those cooking pots that you are cooking and preparing something for your children, for your family, those pots, those very dishes, those very pots that we are using for baking, for cooking, for eating all the homes, all the houses, the pots, and all the vessels, all of them going to be set apart for the Lord Jesus, for the Messiah himself in the coming kingdom, not only in the temple, but also in the homes.

It says in verse 21, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judea shall be holiness unto Jehovah. It will be separation to the Lord. And then finally, brothers and sisters, and I think that is really beautiful at the end, and we're going to conclude with that. In verse 21, at the end, it says that the Canaanites will no longer be in the land and in the house of the Lord. It says here in verse 21, be, and all they that sacrifice, and again I would like to suggest apparently there will be sacrifices in the messianic kingdom, but what is the difference between the sacrifices that happened before the messiah come and the sacrifices that are going to be presented at the kingdom age after the messiah have done, there's two different aspects to those sacrifices.

Every sacrifices that our people Israel have offered in the past spoke about the coming of the messiah. And once the messiah came, he became the supreme sacrifice, and there is no more need to offer sacrifices on the altars, because the blood of bulls and goats cannot remove sin. Only when the messiah Yeshua came, he removed sin by the blood of his cross. But those sacrifices that will be offered during the kingdom age, they will only serve to be a memorial, a reminder of the finished work of the messiah, that he has already done the work. It will no longer be done in order to receive forgiveness of sins, but as a memorial to remind the nations of the world of the finished work that the messiah had accomplished.

So those sacrifices will happen and it says here in verse 21, be all they that sacrifice shall come and they will take of them and see us therein and in that day and here is the climax here and that's how we end the book, there shall be no more Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts. And the Canaanite, if you remember, throughout Israel's generation, throughout the history, the temple had been constantly plundered by the nations surrounding the people of Israel. And again and again it had been desecrated. I mean, we can look at this because there were the temples that were built by Solomon, desecrated by the Babylonian and the Canaanites that had been there in the land.

The temples that had been built by the people of Zechariah time have been ultimately later on destroyed by the Romans. But the Canaanite, as it says, he is representing the nations that were around the people of Israel. There will be no more in the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts. It will be no more unbelievers anymore in the house, in the temple of the Lord. Everyone that will appear before the Lord are going to be those that have accepted the God of Israel and Yeshua the Messiah. So, I want to conclude with Joel chapter 3, just these last verses here, in verse 17. So shall you know that I am Jehovah your God.

I am dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain, then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall be no stranger pass, then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall be no more stranger passing through the land and doing as they wish in the kingdom age. It will end no more. It will be no more happening what happened historically. Verse 18, and it shall come to pass in that day that a mountain shall drop down new wine and the hills shall flow with milk and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord and shall water the valley of Shittim.

Egypt shall be a desolation Adam shall be a desolate wilderness for the violence against the children of Judah because they have shed innocent blood in their land but Judah shall dwell forever and Jerusalem from generation to generation for I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed for the Lord dwelleth in Zion in Zion so you can see that according to Yoel 3 17 no strangers shall pass through the city of Jerusalem anymore the Canaanite shall be no more in the house of the Lord of hosts in other words unbelievers rejecters rejecters of the Messiah will no longer come and do what they have done throughout the history of the nation of Israel so what Yeshua asked the disciples to pray in Matthew chapter 6 thy kingdom come thy will be done as it is in heaven so upon the face of this earth and it surely beloved brothers and sisters it surely going to come to pass when the kingdom is going to be established when the Messiah will rule here from the city of Jerusalem and blessing will flow to all the nations of the world we do pray that the Lord will hasten this day when this kingdom will be established may the Lord bring it so very soon