Re: Be not ignorant of this one thing..
This is a good question... where might the word of God show us that a Day (as in the Day of the Lord, the Day of Jesus Christ), is more than just a 24 hour period of time..
I think that the answer is wherever the word speaks of the Day of the Lord.. its events can't be fit into that short a period of time..
Look at how this portion of the OT book of Zechariah speaks concerning that DAY.. especially verse 8..
Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4And 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.
5And 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.
6And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
Notice how that it says that in that Day living waters shall go out from Jerusalem (which is the city of the great King), and that this shall be in summer and in winter.. clearly more than a 24 hour period of time.. and it says that He will be King over ALL the EARTH in that Day.. and we should not be ignorant of this one thing, that a DAY WITH the LORD is as a thousand years..
Matthew 25 tells us that when He comes in His glory that He will sit upon the throne of His glory and I'm sure it will be in that city of the great King.. when He alone will be King over it all.
Absolutely sounds surreal.. God coming again and I take it literally.. and I think that the scriptures testify to His delivering Israel in the end.. and Matthew 19 also tells us that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits upon the throne of His glory, that His Apostles (Peter, James, John, etc) will also sit upon twelve thrones, and they will judge the twelve tribes of ISRAEL.. imagine that.. All the resurrected Apostles, ruling and reigning with Christ.. in His Kingdom, here on earth.. when the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our God and of His Christ.
Well i too hold a pre-millinial position. But that does not really amount to scriptural support since the word day there is still defined as a nightime to daytime rotation. Perhaps some scripture to support my position would help.
Gen1v3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Isaiah 13v6 Howl ye;
for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold,
the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light:
the SUN shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
Mathew 24v29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days
shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Mark 13v
24 But in those days,
after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
26 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.
27 And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
Rev 10v5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein,
that there should be time no longer: 7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
No one ever said that all of the events of the day of the lord had to be completed in that day.