The day of the Lord

[veteran]

The day of The Lord is an expression used in the OT about God's judgment. It doesn't mean it started in OT times and continued. Instead, it means singular judgments, and there's to be a final one, which is what Apostle Paul was talking about in 2 Thess.2 with "the day of Christ". In final, it's about the time of Christ's return to end this world age. That's why in our day today, we can go back and look at those OT examples of the day of The Lord and discover Scripture within them that is meant for the final day of The Lord that is to happen with Christ's return in the near future. The OT examples serve as examples for the final one.


Jer 46:10
10 For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that He may avenge Him of His adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
(KJV)

With the Jeremiah example, it was about God using Babylon to bring a sacrifice upon Egypt, conquering Egypt to the border of Euphrates. But in Rev.16 it's about God opening up the symbolic border of Euphrates so the kings of the east might be prepared for the final battle, a battle that Christ and His angels will fight in final.

2 Pet 3:10-12
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.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
(KJV)

 

[ronniechoate34]

You know what. Prophesy in similitude. The prophecy's fulfill themselves over and over.


Ho:12:10: I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.

 

[JudaicChristian]

This is what scripture says. Revelation 1:19. "Write, therefore, what you have seen, what is now and what will take place later. 20The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the messengers of the seven congregations, and the seven lampsticks are the seven congregations.

 

[n2thelight]

I am thinking that there will not be a rapture of the church. Now there may be some pulled out of here if hydrogen blasts and chemical warfare began. Then some would be pulled out. Like the three in the furnace, or Lot and his family. God is merciful so there surely would be some spared. But I don't believe that world wide there will be Christians who vanished. This rapture theory is full of holes.

YOur right there will be no rapture.....

Those that are alive will go thru the temptation/tribulation of satan...........

Amen.....THE

 

[MMarc]

The second coming, is a part in the day of the Lord. The day of the Lord starts with the Rapture of the Church, and ends with his return to the Mount of Olives at his second coming.

Some also include the Millennium, in the day of the Lord. But most, consider the time period I mentioned above.

Sorry, the day of the Lord begins when the Lord Himself comes down from Heaven.

 

[MMarc]

Matt 17:10-13
10 And His disciples asked Him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
11 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.
12 But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.
13 Then the disciples understood that He spake unto them of John the Baptist.
(KJV)

John the Baptist came in the spirit of Elijah, and what happenned? He was rejected, as also Christ was. And the kingdom to Israel became in abeyance. The day of The Lord didn't happen then either, because there's a huge difference between Christ offering the kingdom and then being crucified for it.

Mal 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:

Then Elijah will come a third time, or there are thousands of years between his coming and the day of the Lord.

Mat 3:11 `I indeed do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire,
Mat 3:12 whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather his wheat to the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.'

His fan was already in his hand, and he definitely burned up the Jews that killed him lol.

If Jesus returns then so does "Elijah", what happened 2000 years ago is a foreshadow of the spiritual judgement occuring in the Day of the Lord.

When Jesus came He did not come to judge, He came to save. So it wasn't the great and terrible day of the Lord. It was the day of salvation.