“And 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” (Zechariah 14:4).

The next event to occur on God’s revealed prophetic timeline is the Rapture of the church (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). Seven years later, the Lord Jesus with His Church and the armies of Heaven will return to this earth (Revelation 19:11-15). Touchdown will be east of Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives as described in our text today. You see, the first time that the Lord Jesus came to the earth, He came quietly to Bethlehem as a baby. The second time He comes to the earth, He will come spectacularly, with the blaze of glory and the loudest of announcements that He has arrived! As a believer, aren’t you excited about the day He will come for us and then seven years later when He returns with us?

For today: Now read 1 John 3:2-3 and see how these verses go along with our Daily Prescription for today.