Will you kindly explain Zech. 14:12 and on? When will this take place, before or after the thousand years? C. C. Zechariah is largely a double prophecy. God would have done wonderful things for His people if they had only fully returned to Him when they came back from Babylon. If they had come spiritually out of Babylon as well as physically, marvelous things would have been wrought for Jerusalem and against her enemies; but all the greatness of God's promises had to be postponed to a later day, and the destruction of sin and sinners to the time when Christ our Lord should take to Himself His great power and reign. According to verses 3 and 4 the time of the fourteenth chapter is after the thousand years. At the beginning of the thousand years Jesus does not touch this earth. His people are caught up to meet Him in the air. At the end of the thousand years He comes to the earth. Verses 12-15 would simply mean a continuation of the plagues which were poured out at the beginning of the thousand years. The same conditions will exist in the earth at the end of the thousand years that were at the beginning. Men died; but the same sin-poisoned atmosphere exists all the way through the thousand years, and when they come up again at the end of that time the same virulent plagues, representative of sin against God, will be upon them even as when they went down. This explanation of Zechariah will be brought out more fully in the articles by Professor Reed, "From Babylon to Zion."