What A Day That Will Be

562 - Today's Prime Time Devo comes from: 2Sa 15:27-30, “The king also said to Zadok the priest, "Are you not a seer? Return to the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar. 28 "See, I will wait in the plains of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me." 29 Therefore Zadok and Abiathar carried the ark of God back to Jerusalem. And they remained there. 30 So David went up by the Ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered and went barefoot. And all the people who were with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they went up. Did you catch the pun? I don't know if it was intended or not, but David asks Zadok to go back to the city and serve as a spy. “Are you not a see-er.” Good one Holy Spirit. So David and company begin their trudge away from Jerusalem. It is a time of weeping and mourning. They move up the slope of the Mount of Olives, as they must in order to reach their destination of the wilderness. This is the first mention of the Mount of Olives in Scripture, but it was the scene of many important events in the life of Jesus. Probably the most noted is it was the place where He ascended into heaven. And according to Zec 14:4, it will be the place where His feet will touchdown upon His return. “ And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, Which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, From east to west, Making a very large valley; Half of the mountain shall move toward the north And half of it toward the south.” What a Day that will be! Zech 14:9 says, that will be the Day when there will be one King, one Lord over the earth forever! That rebel, Satan, and his demons will be cast into hell, never to trouble the earth again. David and the people were weeping on this day because they were experiencing the problems that arise from a rebel who would make himself king (Absalom) And as you and I are caught up in these struggles on a daily basis, I would encourage you to read Zech 14 and see how it will all turn out one day for those who are in Christ! Father, thank You for this blessed hope. Even so Come Lord Jesus!