No, you aren't saying the same thing. Your argument was that the word translated 'day' can refer to a time period. The verses I referred to did not say 'day.'
I said the CONTEXT refers to it.
The CONTEXT of the verses you pointed out, indeed uses the term (which you are suggesting does not relate to your verses. I say it DOES because of "CONTEXT").
So, what I said (in a post relating to this--maybe not in the post directly responding to yours) was this (boiled down here):
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in scripture, in contexts where the phrases "THE DAY OF THE LORD" and "IN THAT DAY" are used in proximity, they are referring to THE SAME TIME-PERIOD
[and 2Th
1 & 2Th
2--these two chpts--also use these phrases... IN the SAME CONTEXT that Paul is covering in these TWO CHPTS--
Please check out the Greek phrasing]
If you disagree with this statement (in bold ^ ), please explain why you disagree
--Paul, in 1Th5:2-3, states that "THE DAY OF THE LORD" will "ARRIVE" ['so COMETH'] AS [IN THE MANNER OF]... (--->)... "EXACTLY AS / INDEED JUST AS" LABOR-
PANG [SINGULAR] (COMES UPON) a woman-with-child...
that is, UNEXPECTED or SUDDEN... This is NOT talking about way far into labor when the baby is about to come out, but the INITIAL "birth PANG [SINGULAR<--Paul uses the SINGULAR of the SAME TERM Jesus used in the PLURAL...
- Paul and Jesus are referring to the SAME THING! / SAME POINT-IN-TIME... its ARRIVAL!!! (and "the beginning of birth PANGS [PLURAL]" Jesus spoke of are EQUIVALENT the "SEALS" at the START of the "IN QUICKNESS [NOUN]" time-period [Rev1:1 / 1:19c /4:1--COMPARE the wording of the Greek], which is "what things must take place AFTER THESE [after "the things WHICH ARE" of Rev2-3, which are NOT said are "things which must come to pass IN QUICKNESS [NOUN]" by contrast!]
--in 2Th2, Paul is basically making the point, "don't believe THEM [the v.2 false conveyors saying a specific false thing]," believe US INSTEAD (v.15); it is in this chpt 2 passage that Paul spells out the SEQUENCE (repeated 3x here), between what the Subject was that the false conveyors were purporting ("that THE DAY OF THE LORD is present / is already here [PERFECT INDICATIVE]") in how it RELATES time-wise / sequence-wise to the Subject which PAUL IS BRINGING TO BEAR on that false notion / false msg of v.2, by his [Paul's] telling that
ONE THING [he says comes]
*FIRST* [per
the Doctrine of v.1,v.15 HE IS BRINGING TO BEAR on the issue at hand--
the issue: not being deceived by those claiming a particular false thing, v.2]... though TWO conditions listed... BEFORE it can be TRUTHFULLY stated "that THE DAY OF THE LORD IS PRESENT / IS HERE" (as was falsely claimed, per what Paul informs about in v.2)
Some some scripture that present ssome evidence that the rapture occurs before the tribulation. Give some evidence that Jesus comes back twice, or that Jesus is in the air for a really long time period of seven years.