In Zechariah 14, the people of Jerusalem are being plundered, ravished and taken captive and attacked. Vs 3 talks about the Lord going forth to “fight against those nations” but does not say he will save the Israelites.
So, here we have John’s “Lamb” as described in Rev 14, and “with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.”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.
And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
He stands on the mount of Olives, to the east of Jerusalem, and the earth opens up, creating one big pit into which the people flee. Notice that it opens up all the way to “Azal” - which shares it root with Azazel and means to be “cast out.” These people are going into “the pit” just like how the angel of Rev 14 “gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God” in the SAME location where Christ wrought the Atonement - - the location of the Garden of Gethsamane. ”And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles” (vs 20).
This is perfectly prefigured in the sacrificial rituals surrounding the Passover, in the temple at Jerusalem. There were drain holes at the base of the altar where the blood of the sin offerings was poured. At Passover, the holes were deliberately plugged, and with the slaughtering of each lamb per family, the courtyard flowed with blood up to the ankles of the priests (Talmud, Pesachim 64a-65b). After the sacrifices ceased, the courtyard was rinsed, just like after the sacrifice of the Israelites it is said “that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half toward the hinder sea” (Zech 14:8)
When Zechariah 13:1 says that “In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness” he was not speaking of them repenting and accepting baptism. Otherwise, the rest of the chapter makes zero sense. NO, this is a “fountain” as in an “issue of blood.” This is their D&C 19 moment:
This is all done in the “Valley where Yahweh shall judge” - the Valley of Jehoshaphat - the Kidron Valley, whose brook carried away the blood of offerings to the Dead Sea. This is the cleansing of the altar - the cleansing of the land (altar = the earth with its four corners), commensurate with the burning of the ungodly. This is the “sin offering” of a covenant people who reject Christ. These are the foolish virgins buying their oil....surely every man must repent or suffer...repent, lest I smite you by the rod of my mouth, and by my wrath, and by my anger, and your sufferings be sore - how sore you know not, how exquisite you know not, yea, how hard to bear you know not. For behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent.