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The Beginning of the construction of God’s Spiritual Temple

For Sion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as light, and my salvation burn as a torch. Isaiah 63:1

A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.Isa 66:6

Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward [is] with him, and his work before him. Isa 62:11


and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD YHVH of hosts. Malachi 3:1

Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name [is] The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:Zec 6:12

I will shake all nations, and the desired of all nations will come,   and I will fill  this house with glory,’ says YHVH Almighty.

For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD YHVH shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.  Isaiah 60:2
If Christ were to return today and inspect his house what would he find?  A time where faith is lacking and wickedness seems to be advancing without checks. All our prophets have seemed to dissapear. We are at the mercy of the wicked and their escalating wickedness, both among high officials and even to the lowest classes. How we who have  open eyes are sickened .We hear reports of frightening cruelty.  The very lost and deceived state of people in this land is indeed frightening.
 Isa 74:9 We see not our signs: [there is] no more any prophet: neither [is there] among us any that knoweth how long.
Those who are  leading us , are  leading us astray.
Isa 3:12 [As for] my people, children [are] their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause [thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

When are people going to wake up? Can a new spiritual awakening happen? When? That is certainly what we need. In the Bible books of Haggai and Zechariah we read of a rejuvenation of a temple rebuilding work, that speaks of a yet future day, for the grandest rebuilding work that will ever be done. That done under the direction and guidance of Jesus Christ himself, which will usher in his glorious Kingdom of a thousand years. It began when Christ came to earth, with the return of Christ it will be assembled and begin ruling. All the same,  this earth will undergo the worst time of trouble ever seen. “but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

Hbr 12:27 And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.”

This shaking of all nations will bring forth the desired of all nations.  The desirable things (people), out  of all nations,  will be gathered in time, into one flock, with one Shepherd leading them. This being our Great King and High Priest forever, Jesus Christ.

Certainly we suffer for our lack of faith. Becoming snoozy and accumulating material possessions to make us more comfortable in this wicked world has not resulted in any profit. We have become pathetic and poor, miserable , blind and naked.
Rev 3:17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
There was a similar situation in the days of the prophets Haggai and Zechariah. Released from Babylonian and Persian captivity, their zeal for rebuilding the temple had  waned. There were threats coming from those people living in lands surrounding Israel. So they sought their own comfort instead.
             Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’S house should be built. Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,[Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house [lie] waste? Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages [to put it] into a bag with holes.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.
In our day, Our King Jesus Christ councils us…
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and [that] the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Finally this shaking of nations,(the verse above) will as a sieve, separate those who are Christs, from those who are really of this world.Being shaken may not be a pleasant thing, but grievous, yet it will yield  righteous fruit.Hbr 12:11 It will yield righteous results!
Mat 21:44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
The anointed high priest Joshua and the anointed prince Zerubbabel were chosen by God.
And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,
fear ye not. Hag 2:5 was the admonition given these two by the prophet Haggai. Likewise Jesus tells his disciples. With faith we can transplant mountains. If we only have the faith the size of a mustard seed. Think of the power of our heavenly father. Trust in him. He tells us…
And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother. Hag 2:22
                            The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.
The temple built in those ancient times was never equal to the temple Solomon built. But nothing can be compared to the temple Jesus Christ builds. It will be an heavenly one, it’s domain reaching to the ends of the earth.                                                       For…
Psa 72:8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.
The whole books of Haggai and Zechariah should be read thoroughly in their entirety. I will only quote selected portions here.
In the first chapter of Zechariah we see mention of the evil ways of your fathers, and the resulting punishment
.Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us. Zec 1:6
Then we read of a man riding upon a red horse, then red horses, speckled, and white. This reminds us of the four horsemen of Revelation. Who are they? As the New American Bible says…
“These are they whom the LORD has sent to patrol the earth”
And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest. Zec 1:11

God explains further when he turns his attention to those who have scattered the people of God…represented by four horns…

Zec 1:20 And the LORD shewed me four carpenters.
 These [are] the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to terrify them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up [their] horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.Zec 1:21
So these four horsemen and four carpenters are sent to halt the work of these four horns that did scatter the people of God. As God himself explains…
“and I am very angry with the nations that feel secure. I was only a little angry, but they added to the calamity.”
They added to the calamity in the way they treated the people of God. Beyond what God had called for. And now God in his anger will turn his attention towards them. “for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.”
Likewise today, God will turn his attention the the world rulers, who have cut down  those who have inspired  hope and  who have pointed us toward a new and better day, of peace, where people really love one another, ultimately the Kingdom of God. And have accelerated violence and their materialistic wickedness non-stop, devastating this earth, making things appear and feel truly hopeless for we who hunger and thirst for righteousness. Leaving us no where to turn in this world.
God’s anger is directed now at these. He has had enough!
But to his own, he inspires hope. One angel speaks to another…
 Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited [as] towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.Zec 2:4,5
He further says…
And many nations shall be joined to the LORD YHVH in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD YHVH of hosts hath sent me unto thee.Zec 2:11
This should be especially inspiring for us today. Righteousness will spread over this earth, even like never before. And it will begin with the true Kingdom of God, and from the Throne of Christ. Lift your heads up. Shake yourselves from despair! But the nations who are at Satan’s beck and call, will find a different fate.
Psa 18:8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
Aproprietely God tells his people…
Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest [with] the daughter of Babylon.
The world leaders under the spell of Satan seek to institute the idea and religion of ancient Babylon once again. They seek to bring all the world into conformity with it ,in their “One World Order”. All under the great city, spoken of in Revelation, Babylon, who. “reigns over the kings of the earth”.
All decenters will be persecuted. “and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.”Rev 13:15
We are to have no part or share in this wicked set up.
Further in Chapter 5 of Zechariah those of unfaithful Israel are depicted as a wicked woman transported to the land of Shinar. Which is Babylon.
And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this [is] a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.And he said, This [is] wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof….Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah?And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.
There you have it , the old mother of Harlots, the whore, Babylon the great of Revelation. It’s begining point.It is amazing how long ago God has known everything.They will build their house. Their wicked Babylonish “temple of God”.
Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation. Zec 2:13
Next in Chapter 3 God turns his attention to those who would take the lead in the temple rebuilding work. Being human and therefor sinful, Satan stands at Joshua’s right hand to accuse him before the angel. Just as he does with God’s chosen by Christ in our times.
: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. Rev 12:10
Then he showed me Joshua  the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan  standing at his right side to accuse him.  Zechariah 3:1
But…
The (angel of the)LORD said to Satan, “The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?”
Yes, Satan’s accusations do not stand here. For the sacrifice of Christ washes away  sin. Likewise God’s “two witnesses” of whom Joshua is a type(more on this later) will likely also be accused by Satan before God. Jerusalem will yet be the city God has chosen. Joshua is given new raiment symbolizing his clean standing before all, and is told…
 If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.Zec 3:7
What a wonderful and grand promise! Certainly Joshua will do all to endeavor to walk in God’s will!
Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they [are] men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.Zec 3:8
Who is this branch? Is it not none other than Christ himself?
And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;Isa 11:1,2.
Indeed this is speaking of Christ.
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name [is] The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:Zec 6:12
And it is Christ who builds the true temple of God. One that God will inhabit by spirit.
For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone [shall be] seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. Zec 3:9
Yes Christ is the cornerstone and by his sacrifice he pays for our sin.
Notice the depiction of Christ at
 Rev 5:6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
In that day (When his ransom is applied), saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree. Zec 3:10

Next Zechariah is shown…

And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all [of] gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which [are] upon the top thereof: And two olive trees by it, one upon the right [side] of the bowl, and the other upon the left [side] thereof.Zec 4:2,3.

I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?”

 He answered, “Do you not know what these are?”
“No, my lord,” I replied.

  So he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD Almighty.

  “What  are you, O mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground. Then he will bring out the capstone to shouts of ‘God bless it! God bless it!’ ”

  Then the word of the LORD came to me:  “The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this temple; his hands will also complete it. Then you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me to you.

  “Who despises the day of small things? Men will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.
“(These seven are the eyes of the LORD, which range throughout the earth.)”

  Then I asked the angel, “What are these two olive trees on the right and the left of the lampstand?”

  Again I asked him, “What are these two olive branches beside the two gold pipes that pour out golden oil?”

  He replied, “Do you not know what these are?”
“No, my lord,” I said.

 So he said, Then said he, These [are] the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.Zec 4:4-14
Wow . there is alot here!
First let us notice how in verse 6 all will be accomplished…
‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD Almighty.
 The building of the greater temple will commence with the return of Christ. Then he will set about to build his temple. But you may argue, has not this temple been in construction ever since the choosing of the apostles by Jesus, continuing on until our day? Yes, the building blocks of this temple have been chosen and tested for their suitableness, but the actual construction or building work (commencement and Putting together) has not yet begun.(Likewise, It was David who gathered all the material for the Temple, but it was under Solomon’s rule it was constructed.)We have the cornerstone,(Christ) of whom we are told at Psalm 110.
 The LORD (YHVH) said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
He has not yet begun construction, but upon his return to this earth, he will begin. And where will he begin?
The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.Psa 110:2
Yes, from Zion, Jerusalem ,in the land of Israel. Right in the very midst of his enemies. Those who crucified him. He’s coming right back to the same place. Not to die again, but to take up his great power and begin ruling as King! Let us watch his grand and glorious work begin!
“What  are you, O mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground. Then he will bring out the capstone to shouts of ‘God bless it! God bless it!’ ”
Yes, the capstone or cornerstone will be revealed in time, and they will be wise to bless him this time, just as our Lord has said to those who ruled in Jerusalem…
Mat 23:39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed [is] he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
So he returns to the same place.
And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
 and said, Men of Galilee, what stand ye beholding into heaven? This Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall come [so], as ye saw him going into heaven. Act 1:10,11
Rev 1:7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they [also] which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
Zerubbabel being a direct decendant of King David well represents Christ. Therefore we read…
The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you.For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel [with] those seven; they [are] the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth
Yes some have despised the day of small things. But God has chosen the things that are not, to bring to nothing the things that are. But Things will happen very quickly. By surprise, as a thief in the night.
Isa 66:8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? [or] shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
Then we are directed to the “two olive branches beside the two gold pipes that pour out golden oil. These [are] the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”
This reminds us of how the mother of Zebedee’s children asked the messiah…”Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.” Surely she was familiar with Zechariah.

In ancient times these two ,Zerubbabel and High priest Joshua ,began the temple rebuilding. They took the lead. They both could represent Christ. Christ is both governor as was Zerubbabel  and priest like Joshua. Joshua also receiving a mitre upon his head.

Zec 3:5 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by.

Joshua being hebrew for Jesus. But in representing Christ, they are his witnesses, his two witnesses, or annointed ones who stand before the Lord of all the earth, who is Christ.

Yes these two anointed ones mentioned here are the same two witnesses spoken of in Revelation;
Rev 11:3 And I will give [power] unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
As Jesus promised
Blessed [are] those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
He it is ,that gives holy spirit and power unto his two witnesses, and through their preaching he begins his rule, right in the midst of his enemies.
Yes these two witnesses prophesy
 in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.Rev 11:8 Jesus was put to death at Jerusalem.
The great city is Babylon the Great. For a greater investigation please read the section on “They Mystery harlot”. Yes right in the midst of his enemies; right at their headquarters, for Babylon is that great city that reigns over the kings of the earth.

So it all happens, it all begins, from Mount Zion, where Christ will reign.

The signs of Christ’s presence, nation against nation, pestilence, famine, will be happening in response to the persecution, by the serpent ,of the witnesses of Jesus.
And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man [child].
These signs are much the same as the four horsemen of Revelation. The same as  the horses of Zechariah, in which we read….
but these are come to terrify them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up [their] horn over the land of Judah to scatter it. So this will slow the persecution of the woman’s seed, as the nations turn to more imminent  matters threatening their very existence. And God’s true witnesses will receive POWER!  It is as written in Psalm 110. God’s enemies(wicked spirit creatures) will have been cast down to  the earth, God’s footstool. And now Jesus begins to rule in the midst of his enemies. Praise Yahuwah!
Allow me to quote from a section of “One Master” from this web site…

And I will give [power] unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.Further in Revelation 11, God gives power unto these two witnesses through Jesus Christ “to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophesy: and have power over water to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will.” Without rain,crops die and there is no harvest, resulting in hunger and famine. One of the signs Jesus gave. “And to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will”.  Pestilence! And power over waters to turn them into blood, may very well mean great bloodshed as in wars,etc; the waters representing, “peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues”,Revelation 17:15 …”nation against nation” . These two witnesses are given power to “prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, dressed in sackcloth”.No man will hurt them,for “fire proceedeth out of their mouth and devoureth their enemies: and if any man hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.” So Satan and those of his Kingdom are forced to pay attention to our GREAT God YHVH, and listen to the words of his prophets, just as Pharoah of Egypt had to give heed to God’s decrees as spoken by his prophet Moses. Is this not God’s reaction towards those who are “touching the apple of his eye”, His precious children, whom he loves? Could this not be the way that the earth “swallows up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth“, in slanderous hatred and cruel persecution of God’s servants who love the truth and will not depart from it? Certainly the wind is taken from their sails, when they must turn their very serious attention to all the troubles plaguing their kingdom, the “earth”.   Wars, famines and pestilences! As well as earthquakes and more. Will their flood not be therefore “swallowed up”?

And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.Hag 2:22

Thus saith the LORD YHVH; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD YHVH of hosts the holy mountain. Zec 8:3


And they [that are] far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD YHVH, and ye shall know that the LORD YHVH of hosts hath sent me unto you. And [this] shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God. Zec 6:15

Thus saith the LORD YHVH of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which [were] in the day [that] the foundation of the house of the LORD YHVh of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built. Zec 8:9

Yes the work done by Christ through “my two witnesses” will lay the groundwork or foundation for the true temple of God in Jerusalem. All of Christs true followers will be strengthened during  this time.

Rev 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, [which is] new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and [I will write upon him] my new name.

 

Halleluia! Praise YHVH

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:

But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.

And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.       Zechariah 14;6-8.

Here we are. The thousand year reign of Christ has begun. Things are by no means perfect. It cannot be said to be day, but neither is it still night at this point, The night is past, thanks to God  .But the reign of Christ has begun. And by the end of the thousand years, at the evening , so to speak, it will be light.

But before the Kingdom of God begins it’s reign, Jerusalem, or those who represent heavenly Jerusalem are attacked.

Zechariah 14

 1Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

 2For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city
3Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
This will bring into motion the great time of Trouble that will engulf the world as spoken of by Jesus in Mathew 24 and in Luke 21.And yet some are first killed or taken captive.
Luk 21:12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute [you], delivering [you] up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake.
Rev 13:15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Rev 13:10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. Zehariah goes on to describe the means of escape for the rest of the  people of God…
4And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

5And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.

Zechariah says, the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley. This is the opportunity to flee. The Satanic New world order becomes divided for a time. Half of it” toward the north, and half of it toward the south”. Yes, as Jesus said in Mathew and luke,” nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom”. It will be the King of the North verses the King of the south, as spoken of by Daniel. This distraction will allow the escape of the people of God. Out of harms way.ye shall flee And they will strengthen themselves. And the two wittnesses will emerge in Jerusalem.

13And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.   Zechariah 14.

Luk 17:31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.

When?

Mar 13:14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:

What is this abomination?

3Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.       2 thes. 2:3.

8And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

9Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

12That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”

Many will be caught.  There is no time to waste! Flee!!

15When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

16Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

17Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

18Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

19And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

20But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

21For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. Mathew 24

The Kingdoms of the world will unite once more after this, for the destruction of the whore, Babylon, and for the final battle of Armageddon.

13And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

14For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty….16And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

19And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.

20And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

21And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.        Revelation  19

Zachariah 14

9And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one YHVH, and his name one.

10All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses.

11And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.

8And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

9And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, YHVH (The LORD) is my God.        Zechariah 13