According to Scripture the reign of Christ literally began when He ascended to the Father and received a Kingdom that would have no end.
Zechariah's prophesy was fulfilled when Christ came to earth a man. This prophesy from Zechariah begins with a coming "day of the LORD". As we read Zechariah we understand the day of the LORD that would come was not A Day of the LORD that will come again at the end of this age. Rather the day of the LORD coming from Zechariah's time is an age that we have become to understand is the age/era/time of the Gospel. Or the age of the Messiah who was to come.
Zechariah's prophesy of the day of the LORD is the same day of the LORD Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Zephaniah, Malachi and even Lamentations foretell of.
Zechariah 14:1 (KJV) Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
The day of the LORD prophesied from old spoke of a time that would come when Messiah would build His Kingdom. What the Jews of Christ's time, and so many Christians today don't realize is that the Kingdom Christ came to build through the message of His Gospel through the churches on earth is NOT a physical Kingdom, but a spiritual one. That's why you read the prophesies through literal sight rather than finding how the prophesies are being fulfilled since Messiah came and will be complete when He comes the second time.
We see through the prophesy of Joel how the Day of the LORD was fulfilled at Pentecost, is being spiritually fulfilled as the Gospel is preached and men of faith enter the Kingdom of heaven via the Spirit in them by grace through faith and will finally be fulfilled when Christ physically comes again on the last day when the seventh trumpet sounds.
If one places Zechariah 14:2, for instance, during the time of what transpired in 70 AD, though that is obviously the wrong place to insert this, even this, though it is wrong, shows that Zechariah 14 speaks of events after Christ has been born, not before He was born, therefore, placing these events in the last days. Since Amills typically insist the NT sheds light on the OT, which I don't necessarily disagree with, how many 'day of the Lord' events do Amills think the NT is revealing? Only one, or more than one?
The following is what the NT records about the day of the Lord.
Acts 2:20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
1 Thessalonians 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
And this is what is recorded in Zechariah 14:1.
Zechariah 14:1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
If this is not involving the day of the Lord event in the above 3 passages in the NT pertaining to the DOTL, what DOTL events recorded in the NT is it pertaining to then? Does or does not the NT shed light on the OT like Amillls are insisting? Where then is the NT shedding light on Zechariah 14:1 if none of the 3 verses above from the NT are shedding light on it?
Even what is recorded in Acts 2:20, the text clearly says--first The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, which should have anyone familiar with the book of Revelation knowing that this is involving the 6th seal, and that Acts 2:20 indicates the 6th seal precedes that great and notable day of the Lord. And unless I'm mistaken, a lot of Amills agree the 6th seal involves Christ's bodily return in the end of this age.
Therefore, I don't know what it is about Amill at times that makes them want to turn crystal clear chronology into something nonsensical instead, something not even agreeing with the texts involved? Why would anyone need to do that? Is that the way truth in generally determined?