Zechariah 8:14-15

Yahweh of armies also promised that just as He had purposed to bring His people into difficult times because of their forefathers’ sins (cf. Jeremiah 4:28; Jeremiah 51:12; Lamentations 2:17), so He would bless Jerusalem in the near future. Covenant disobedience had brought divine discipline, but covenant obedience would bring divine blessing. As He had not relented from bringing the first promise to pass, so He would not go back on the second promise. His determination was equally strong in both instances. Therefore the people should not fear (cf. Zechariah 8:13).

"These glorious eschatological promises illuminating the future of the Jews and setting before them their future national hope also came as an illustration to them of the blessing God had in store for them at that time. To describe this the prophet uses the expression in these days (Zechariah 8:15). But the benefits that were immediate did not exhaust the full scope of these sweeping prophetic previews.

"Like Jonah out of God’s will they have caused a storm among the Gentiles. Yet in a future day, after their great tribulation, like Jonah’s experience in the fish, they shall be restored to faith and obedience to minister to the nations of the millennium, as Jonah did to the Ninevites." [Note: Unger, p. 145.]