After the persecutions of the church shall follow great prosperity. Persecutors shall be punished: so shall all that will not serve God in his church. 14:1. Behold the days of the Lord shall come, and thy spoils shall be divided in the midst of thee. 14:2. And I will gather all nations to Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken, and the houses shall be rifled, and the women shall be defiled: and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the rest of the people shall not be taken away out of the city. I will gather, etc... This seems to be a prophecy of what was done by Antiochus. 14:3. Then the Lord shall go forth, and shall fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. 14:4. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is over against Jerusalem towards the east: and the mount of Olives shall be divided in the midst thereof to the east, and to the west with a very great opening, and half of the mountain shall be separated to the north, and half thereof to the south. 14:5. And you shall flee to the valley of those mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall be joined even to the next, and you shall flee as you fled from the face of the earthquake in the days of Ozias king of Juda: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with him. 14:6. And it shall come to pass in that day, that there shall be no light, but cold and frost. No light... Viz., in that dismal time of persecution of Antiochus, when it was neither day nor night: (ver. 7) because they neither had the comfortable light of the day, nor the repose of the night. 14:7. And there shall be one day, which is known to the Lord, not day nor night: and in the time of the evening there shall be light: In the time of the evening there shall be light... An unexpected light shall arise by the means of the Machabees, when things shalll seem to be at the worst. 14:8. And it shall come to pass in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem: half of them to the east sea, and half of them to the last sea: they shall be in summer and in winter. Living waters... Viz., the gospel of Christ. 14:9. And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day there shall be one Lord, and his name shall be one. 14:10. And all the land shall return even to the desert, from the hill to Remmon to the south of Jerusalem: and she shall be exalted, and shall dwell in her own place, from the gate of Benjamin even to the place of the former gate, and even to the gate of the corners: and from the tower of Hananeel even to the king's winepresses. All the land shall return, etc... This, in some measure, was verified by the means of the Machabees: but is rather to be taken in a spiritual sense, as relating to the propagation of the church, and kingdom of Christ, the true Jerusalem, which alone shall never fall under the anathema of destruction, or God's curse.