The Day of the Lord
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04/23/2008 03:28
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This study focuses on all the passages I've
found that talk about the day of the Lord. The purpose is to better define both
what the day of the Lord is, and when it takes place in history. This is
important because, as you will see, the day of the Lord is the beginning of
God's wrath, and we as the
bride
of Christ are not appointed to this time.
1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 |
Luke 21:34-36 It is before the day of the Lord that we should expect our
blessed hope,
Titus 2:11-15 the coming of our Lord Yeshua and our gathering to Him,
the
harpazo of the bride.
2 Thessalonians 2:1-4
According to scripture,
Matthew 24:36-39 and
Luke 17:24-33,
Christ's coming is with sudden destruction like the days of Noah and
Lot, this is the beginning of God's wrath and the day of the Lord.
This page
defines the day of the Lord according to scripture. Here are the scriptures in
the Bible about the day of the LORD.
Isaiah 2:12-21
Enter into the rock, and hide thee in
the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. The
lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed
down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
For the
day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon
every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and
he shall be brought low: For the
day of the LORD
of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every
one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low: And upon all the
cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of
Bashan, And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are
lifted up, And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall, And
upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures. And the
loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall
be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. And the
idols he shall utterly abolish. And they shall go into the holes
of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD,
and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly
the earth.
In that day a
man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they
made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged
rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when
he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
I think it's interesting how
verse 10 starts with hiding under the rocks for fear of the Lord. That's
exactly what
Revelation 6:15 says about the
sixth seal! This fits
perfectly with the wrath of God starting just about ½ hour after the
seventh seal is opened when the trumpets begin to sound God's wrath upon the
earth. This is also during His rule for 1,000 years, the lofty will be
brought low and all the world will worship Him. We even have the connection
of the Lord rising to shake the earth and in that day, they go hide in
the mountains and caves.
Revelation 6:15-17
And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the
rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every
bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and
in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks,
Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the
throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of
his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Isaiah 13:6-11
Howl ye; for the
day of the LORD is at
hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: 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. 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. 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.
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.
Here we see the day of the Lord
directly related to destruction from the Almighty. And once again, we see
the sixth seal associated with the day of the Lord, describing the sun
darkening and the moon darkening. I believe the moon turning to blood is
literally a hunter's moon, or lunar eclipse. This both darkens the light
from the moon and turns it red.
Lamentations 2:22
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the
day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled
and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
I don't believe this passage
is referring to the day of the Lord, but it is
representative of what the day of the Lord will be like, with His
all-consuming fire.
Ye have not gone up into the
gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle
in the day of the LORD.
The context of this passage is
how the prophets of Israel were prophesying out of their own hearts, not the
Lord's, misleading and not making Israel strong in His Truth. I'm not
entirely sure how that relates to standing in the battle in the day of the
LORD though.
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Son of
man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the day!
For the day is near, even the day of
the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when
the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her
foundations shall be broken down. Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the
mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall
fall with them by the sword. Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt
shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of
Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD. And they shall
be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities
shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted. And they shall know
that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers
shall be destroyed.
The day of the Lord is
described as a day of woe, of cloudiness, and in the time of the heathen. I
love it when God states "and they shall know that I am the Lord." That's
also in Ezekiel 38,39 for when the Lord will destroy the armies of Gog/Magog
in the mountains of Israel. I believe that will happen soon, see the Bible
study on that
here. Since it happens in the time of the heathen, the day of the Lord
must at least begin during the time that the heathens rule. This places it
as starting just prior to the millennium.
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye
priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye
ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is
withholden from the house of your God. Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn
assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house
of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD, Alas for the day! for the
day of the LORD is at hand, and
as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. Is not
the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our
God?
That puts it pretty bluntly
and clear. Truly there is no joy or gladness in the house of the Jews. They
have been blinded for their rejection of their Meshiach Nagid, Yeshua.
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and
sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land
tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh,
for it is nigh at hand; A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of
clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains:
a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like,
neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is
as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea,
and nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance of
horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. Like the noise of chariots on the
tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that
devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. Before their
face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. They
shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they
shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:
Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and
when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. They shall run to
and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon
the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief. The earth
shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the
moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: And
the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great:
for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day
of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
The day of the Lord comes in
darkness and gloominess. The abomination of desolation happens before the
sixth seal, 1290 days before the end of the 70th week. ( Daniel
12:11) This part of Joel 2 is, I believe, describing the genocide of 2/3
of Israel after the abomination of desolation. ( Zechariah
13:8,9) I believe this great, strong people will be those under the
beast of
Revelation 13:1-10. Then, the sun and moon go dark and the stars
withdraw their shining, which again is a description of the sixth seal. This
matches perfectly with scripture placing the sixth seal after the
abomination of desolation and just before the wrath of God is poured out.
Be glad then,
ye children of
Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former
rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former
rain, and the latter rain in the first month. And the floors shall be full of
wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil. And I will restore to
you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller,
and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. And ye shall eat in
plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath
dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. And
ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your
God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed. And it
shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh;
and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream
dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon
the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. And I will shew wonders
in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,
before the great and terrible day of the LORD
come. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of
the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be
deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall
call.
Again, the sixth seal is
connected as happening before the day of the Lord. I also
find it interesting that the latter rain promise is to Israel specifically.
I've always heard it pointed towards Christians, but that's not what it
says.
Multitudes, multitudes in the
valley of decision: for the day of the LORD
is near in the valley of decision. The sun and the moon shall be darkened,
and the stars shall withdraw their shining. The LORD also shall roar out
of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth
shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength
of the children of Israel. So shall ye know that I am the LORD your
God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy,
and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. And it shall come to
pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills
shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and
a fountain shall come forth out of the house of the LORD, and shall water the
valley of Shittim.
Here we see the sixth seal
again, then the heavens and earth shake. This is the wrath of God. ( Isaiah
13:13) Even though His wrath is being poured out, He will be the hope of
His people, Israel. This is another reason why I believe the church is
harpazod before the sixth seal, the focus is on Israel and their land. When
the Lord is dwelling in Zion, that will be the millennium.
Woe unto you that desire the
day of the LORD! to what end is it for you?
the day of the LORD is darkness, and not
light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the
house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. Shall not the
day of the LORD be darkness, and
not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
The context of this verse is
directed at Israel long ago, I believe because verse 27 tells them they will
"go into captivity beyond Damascus." I believe that the Jews may have been
looking forward to the day of the Lord, not realizing that in their present
condition, it would not be an experience they wanted to go through.
For thy
[Esau] violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and
thou [Esau] shalt be cut off for ever.
In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers
carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and
cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them. But thou shouldest
not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a
stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in
the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in
the day of distress. Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my
people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on
their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their
substance in the day of their calamity; Neither shouldest thou have stood in
the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou
have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress. For the
day of the LORD is near
upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy
reward shall return upon thine own head. For as ye have drunk upon my holy
mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink,
and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.
But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and
the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. And the
house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house
of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there
shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.
Esau is Jacob's brother, who
he tricked to gain the birthright. Esau has also been called Edom, meaning
red, ( Genesis
25:30) which is the name of the land where his descendants settled. ( Genesis
32:3 |
Genesis 36:1-43) This is saying that the descendants of Esau should not
have rejoiced in Israel's destruction, nor should they have cut off those
trying to escape. The day of the Lord here is directed at the heathen,
recompense for those things done against the Lord and His chosen ones.
Hold thy peace at the presence
of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD
is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.
And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD's sacrifice, that I will
punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with
strange apparel. In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the
threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit. And
it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the
noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great
crashing from the hills. Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant
people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off. And it shall come
to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish
the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will
not do good, neither will he do evil. Therefore their goods shall become a
booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not
inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
The great day of the LORD is
near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD:
the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. That day is a day of
wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day
of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, A day of the
trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men,
because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out
as dust, and their flesh as the dung. Neither their silver nor their gold
shall be able to deliver them in the day of the
LORD's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the
fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them
that dwell in the land.
The day of the Lord is the
time of His wrath, it's very clear here. A time of gloominess and darkness,
of trouble and distress. Put together from the rest, it is a time
for the heathen's destruction by the wrath of the Lord just after the sixth
seal.
Gather
yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;
Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before
the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the
day of the LORD's anger come upon you. Seek
ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek
righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the
day of the LORD's anger.
Here we see Israel the subject
of this warning from God about the day of the Lord's anger. There is a
direct word to seek the Lord, righteousness, and meekness so that they may
be hid in the day of the Lord's anger. Reminds me of
Isaiah 26:19-21
Behold, the
day of the LORD cometh, and
[Dividing
the Land of Israel]-> thy spoil shall
be divided in the midst of thee. For I will gather all nations
[International force] 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. [Forced
division of Israel for peace]
[Christ return in glory at Armageddon]-> Then
shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in
the day of battle. And 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. And 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.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor
dark: But 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. And
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. And the LORD shall be king over all the
earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one. All the land
shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it
shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the
place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel
unto the king's winepresses. And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no
more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
There's talk of half the city
going into captivity and the rest remaining in the city. That must be at the
destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. The cleaving of the Mount of Olives
obviously hasn't happened yet, and can't happen until Christ returns in
glory. That is right after He defeats the armies at Armageddon. We see that
all the saints are coming with Christ when He cleaves the Mount of Olives.
We see also the effect of Yeshua's presence on the earth during the
millennium in that there is no day or night as we know it, but He will be
the light of the world, literally. There will be no day or night, just one
long day, the day of the Lord, which is as a thousand years, where we get
"millennium."
For, behold, the day cometh,
that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly,
shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD
of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you that
fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings;
and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread
down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the
day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. Remember ye the law of
Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the
statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before
the coming of the great and dreadful day of the
LORD: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the
children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and
smite the earth with a curse.
I believe that Elijah is one
of the two witnesses in Revelation. These two witnesses will be prophesying
1260 days. (42 months/3½ years) Don't let the numbers make you jump to
the conclusion that they are in the first or last half of the 70th week of
Daniel. It says it right here that they come BEFORE the day of the Lord.
That starts at or around the sixth seal. Therefore, the two witnesses will
come during the first half of the 70th week. I believe they will show up
soon after the temple is rebuilt on the Temple Mount. We know that Apollyon
is the one who ends up killing these two, ( Revelation
11:7) and he isn't let out of the bottomless pit until the fifth
trumpet. ( Revelation
9:1-11)
Acts 2:20
The sun shall be turned into
darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great
and notable day of the LORD come:
This is a repeated prophecy
from Joel 2.
1 Thessalonians 5:1-11
But of
the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
For yourselves know perfectly that the day
of the LORD so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they
shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as
travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye,
brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of
the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others;
but let us watch and be sober. For they
that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the
night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of
faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. For God hath not
appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with
him. Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify
one another, even as also ye do.
The day of the Lord does come
like a thief in the night. However, we are not in darkness like the world
such that this day won't surprise us, we'll be watching for it. Notice also
that the sudden destruction comes upon them and they shall not
escape. Notice also that we are not appointed to wrath but
salvation by our Lord Yeshua the Christ. Those are in direct opposition to
each other. Some do not escape (those in darkness) while those who are not
in darkness are not appointed to that wrath that comes suddenly like a thief
in the night. The Lord is taking something from the earth, our current
house. He is taking His bride before His wrath comes upon this house.
2 Peter 3:8-10
But,
beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord
as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not
slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is
longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all
should come to repentance. 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.
We see here that within the
timeframe of the day of the Lord, the heavens will pass away and the
elements melt with a fervent heat and the earth burned up. This can only
happen after the great white throne judgment which is after the millennium
is over. After the destruction of this heaven and earth, a new heaven
and earth will be created.
Isaiah 66:22
For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make,
shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed
[Israel] and your
name remain.
Revelation 21:1-5
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and
the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And
I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out
of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a
great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with
men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God
himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away
all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither
sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former
things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I
make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are
true and faithful.
2 Peter 3:8-10 is the key to understanding the
timeframe of the day of the Lord. His day
starts with His wrath shaking the heavens with the trumpet/thunder/bowl
judgments. (Isaiah
13:13 |
Matthew 24:29) This happens after the
seventh seal is broken and the
seven angels are given their seven trumpets. (Revelation
8:1,2) It is at the end of this 1,000 years and
the great white throne judgment that the elements melt with a fervent heat. Keep in mind that the 1,000 years begins about 3½ years before Christ
returns in glory to actually take the kingdoms of the earth and begin His
millennial reign. (we don't know the day or hour from the
framework of exact-day prophecies.) This means that Christ can't be ruling for a full 1,000
years because the timeline for the destruction of this heavens and earth at
the great white throne judgment starts with God's wrath before Christ
returns in glory. I believe this is explained by His ministry at His first
coming for 3½ years as a suffering servant ending in His death for our sins.
I don't actually know this to be true, but it fits in general and make sense
so I'm inclined given the precision of scripture elsewhere to believe it is
probably precise. Those 3½ years of God's wrath before He rules the earth are the
timeframe of the judgments
for those who refused to accept what Christ did at His first coming in
taking the sin of the world if we believe and obey.
We can see from these passages that the day of the Lord begins as a time
of vengeance to those opposed to Christ. For those who are in Christ, it is
a time of rejoicing. Why? Because
the bride of Christ is harpazod out prior
to the wrath of God coming. This is called a
pre-wrath harpazo.
Day of Christ
There's something distinctly different
about the "day of Christ." Yeshua the Christ is Lord and so the
day of the Lord and the day of Christ are somewhat equivalent. Where
they differ is in the tone. I believe they both refer to the same
time, the beginning of the day of the Lord, but for the Christian,
the day of Christ is the blessed hope and the appearing of our Lord
to gather us to Himself as He promised.
2
Thessalonians 2:1-4
Now we beseech you, brethren, by
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our
gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by
word, nor by letter as from us, as that
the day of Christ is at hand.
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except
there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son
of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called
God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of
God, shewing himself that he is God.
Understanding the definition of the day of Christ reveals that the
day of Christ is the
harpazo of the bride. It is the day of the
Lord, which coincides with the coming of the Lord and the sudden destruction
we're not appointed to. Keep reading, there's more.
Philippians 1:9,10
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more
and more in knowledge and in all judgment; that ye may approve things
that are excellent; that ye may
be sincere and without offence till the
day of Christ.
Why is it only
till
the day of Christ that we should be sincere and without offence? Are
we going to be insincere and offensive after the day of Christ? No, we
will be in our resurrected, immortal bodies. We will be married to
Christ such that the two become one. We're taken to the marriage of
the Lamb in the harpazo. That's what the kingdom parable of the 10
virgins is all about.
Matthew 25:1-13 Only 50% of those considering themselves to be
waiting for the bridegroom are allowed to the marriage.
Do you have oil in your
lamp?
Matthew 7:13-23
Philippians 2:14-16
Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be
blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of
a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the
world; Holding forth the word of life;
that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not
run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
Paul was anticipating the running (work) he
was doing for Christ would not be for nothing. The day of Christ is
the point when he rejoices over the fruits of his labor. What day
could that be if he was laboring for the church. Paul tells us exactly
what his goal is in
2 Corinthians 11:2.
In the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the
power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an one unto Satan
for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the
day of the LORD Jesus.
Notice the different
tone, one of salvation on this day. The spirit is saved in this day.
Both the day of the Lord and the day of Christ are to come suddenly
and at an unknown day or hour. I believe this is because just prior to the
day of the Lord is when the Lord harpazos, or snatches, His bride from
the earth to go to the marriage of the Lamb. For those that have faith
in the promises of Christ, this day is one of deliverance and
salvation, a departure to our true home with God in heaven. The
Father's house has many mansions, where Christ is preparing a place
for us that when He returns He can take us to it. ( John
14:1-3)
Isaiah 26:20,21 talks about
entering into our chambers for a little while till the Lord's wrath
punishing the inhabitants of the earth is over.
I would also like to point out that the scripture only speaks
of the spirit being saved, not the body. That is because at the
resurrection/harpazo of the just, we receive new immortal
bodies.
1 Corinthians 15:50-54
2
Corinthians 1:12-14
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that
in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the
grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more
abundantly to you-ward. For we write none other things unto you, that
what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to
the end; As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your
rejoicing, even as ye also are
our's in the day of the LORD Jesus.
Here again, the day of the
Lord Jesus is a time of rejoicing for those who are in Christ. Why? Because
we are removed before the wrath of God is poured out on the children of
disobedience.
There's a distinct difference between the day
of the Lord (darkness, wrath, gloominess) and the day of Christ
(rejoicing, finishing the race, gathering in Christ). It's all a matter of
perspective. For the Christian, they will not see the day of the Lord and
the wrath that encompasses it. They will see Christ and stand before Him.
Revelation 7:9 Those who are not in Christ will see the
day of the Lord,
God's wrath. Find out what it takes to be the one rejoicing.
It's a lot easier than you think, if you just have faith and trust in and
rely on God. What is a Christian?
So is there any scripture that would confirm that Christ comes on the
day of the Lord? If the day of the Lord comes as a sudden destruction
from the Almighty,
Isaiah 13:6-13, then it would follow that our gathering to
meet the Lord in the air, the harpazo, would come at some point around
that time. We don't know the day or hour of it, but then again, nobody
knows the sudden destruction of the day of the Lord is coming until it
arrives, much like the days of Noah...
Matthew 24:36-39
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of
heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noah were, so
shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the
days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into
the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away;
so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
So in Noah's day, everyone was living life normally...except Noah and
his family. So in the coming of the Son of man, Yeshua, we are to expect
it to be the same. We should expect that people will eat, drink, and be
merry not knowing that sudden destruction is coming to take them all
away. We are promised to meet the Lord in the air and escape the coming
destruction. So it would seem that the Lord's coming is tied in directly
with the sudden destruction coming to which we are not appointed. Since
we know neither when the sudden destruction is nor the day and hour of
Christ's coming, they seem to be tied together quite intimately.
On a side note, I've discovered some fascinating research that may
confirm my own conclusions based on the
HIStory,
Our Future Bible studies. It has to do with the
sixth seal and a
celestial body commonly known as
Planet-X. After the
sixth seal is the seventh and final seal. It is only ½ hour of silence
in heaven. Then, only after opening all seven seals, the seven angels
are handed seven trumpets and upon the first blowing, fire and hail
mingled with blood are cast to the earth followed by a "mountain burning
with fire" cast into the sea. This is the wrath of God that begins the
day of the Lord and it happens most likely within the day of the sixth
seal event. I believe many of the seven trumpets and seven bowls can be
attributed to what causes the sixth seal, and it may be headed for earth
right now. Its orbit comes from the South Pole where there isn't much
watching the skies. And if the governments knew about it would they tell
the mass population if there is nothing that can be done about it? Watch
Deep Impact for and idea.
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