In chapter 13 God reinforces the idea that the children of Jacob will be saved from their sins in the exact same way that we have been saved from ours. Just as each of us turned from our wicked ways and accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior – through faith – they too will do the same.
When we get to Zechariah 14, we’ll see how that chapter is a completely different prophecy.
Have you ever seen someone try to fit a mattress into a Honda Civic?
Right. It can’t be done.
Unfortunately, we do the same thing in our beliefs about the Last Days. We take one of the biggest topics written about by the prophets and try to stick it into the Honda Civic of Eschatology – the tiny sliver of time that we call the Great Tribulation.
What is that huge topic spoken of by the prophets?
The Redemption of Israel.
That is a truly gigantic mattress to try and fit inside such a tiny car.
So, maybe we shouldn’t.