Zechariah 14:3

"Then shall Jehovah go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle."

"Then shall Jehovah go forth ..." There is a change from the first person to the third in this verse; but this is par for the course in the prophetic writings:

"But this, as has been shown, is not a sufficient reason for denying the genuineness of the passage, since such changes occur in cases in which the hand of the original author is generally recognized."[9]

Young students, especially, need the warning of Leupold who observed that: "The critical school, however, devotes itself almost entirely to finding fault with the text and the message and consequently arrives at no certain conclusion."[10] We are also thankful for Leupold's perception that, here "We have a passage that applies to the entire Messianic time from beginning to end."[11]

God's fighting against those nations that oppose his will and oppress his people shall never cease throughout the dispensation. Although using one wicked nation to destroy another; God nevertheless eventually judges and destroys all wickedness, being restrained only by his benevolent purpose of the work of redemption proceeding throughout the temporal era till the second coming, at which time the work shall have been concluded, and the judgment of all the earth will occur.