The Day of the Lord

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Numerous passages from the OT and the NT, talks about the Day of the Lord.

Here are a few questions, that I hope I can pose to some of you

- 1. What is this phrase Day of the Lord?
-2. Is this a 24 hour time period or something else?
-3. Do you believe this event has already occurred, and if you do, what was it?


Please post with Scripture references and if there are events in history which you believe validate this, then do go ahead and share it. As this may be related to your eschatology views, please do specify what they are.

Thanks and God bless you.
 
.........the day of the Lord.............

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Old Testament usage[edit]

It is used first by Amos and subsequently incorporated into prophetic and apocalyptic literature texts of the Bible. It relies on military images to describe the Lord as a "divine warrior" who will conquer his enemies. In certain prophetic texts of the Old Testament, the enemies of the Lord are Israel's enemies and in these visions the day of the Lord brings victory for the people of ancient Israel. Other prophets use the imagery as a warning to Israel or its leaders and for them, the day of the Lord will mean destruction for the biblical nation of Israel. This concept develops throughout Jewish and Christian Scripture into a day of divine, apocalyptic judgment at the end of the world.[SUP][3][/SUP]
In the biblical canon, the earliest, direct use of the phrase is in Isaiah 2: "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" (Isaiah 2:12). Another early use of the phrase is in Amos 5:18-20.[SUP][4][/SUP] Wright suggests that the phrase was already a standard one, and Amos' hearers would take it to mean "the day when Yahweh would intervene to put Israel at the head of the nations, irrespective of Israel's faithfulness to Him."[SUP][4][/SUP] Yet Amos declares "Woe to you who long for the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD? That day will be darkness, not light" (Amos 5:18, NIV). Because Israel had sinned, God would come in judgement on them. Thus, the day of the Lord is about God chastening his people, whether it be through the Babylonian invasion of Jerusalem or a locust plague described in Joel 2:1-11.[SUP][4][/SUP] Yet Joel 2:32 holds a promise that on the Day of the Lord, "everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved."
New Testament usage[edit]

This promise is also picked up in the New Testament, when Joel 2:28-32 is quoted in Acts 2:17-21. The phrase is also used in 1 Thessalonians 5:2 to refer either to the rapture or to the return of Jesus.[SUP][5][/SUP]
The phrase alludes to a judgment for eternal rewards in 2 Corinthians 1:14 where it says "we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus".
The Book of Revelation describes the day of the Lord as an apocalyptic time of God's almighty wrath, which comes upon those who are deemed wicked. The text pictures every man hiding in the rocks of the mountains during a major earthquake to attempt to hide from God's wrath, while celestial phenomena turn the moon blood red and the sun dark.[SUP][Revelation 6:12-17][/SUP] These celestial phenomena are also mentioned in Joel 2:31, which foretells the same precise order of events mentioned in Revelation: The moon turns blood red and the sun turns dark before the great day of the Lord.[SUP][Joel 2:31][/SUP] Matthew 24:29-31 mentions the same event, yet it places the celestial phenomenon as occurring after the "tribulation of those days".[SUP][Matthew 24:29-31][/SUP] According to these passages, it then seems that the day of the Lord is an event closely tied with the coming of the Messiah to judge the world.
(NKJV) 2 Peter 3:8-10 8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day [is] as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slack concerning [His] promise, as some count slackness, but is long suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
In general, most Christians believe that the day of the Lord is a reference to a time of catastrophe and judgement for the wicked or a time of glorious renewal and salvation for believers.
Variant views[edit]

Meredith Kline equates the "Day of the Lord" with the "Lord's Day", which is usually taken to refer to the Christian weekly day of rest. Kline argues that the "Lord's Day" mentioned in Revelation 1:10 is not first day of the week, but refers to "the already realized heavenly enthronement of the Lord Jesus."[SUP][6][/SUP]
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Thanks p_rehbein.

I did see the wikipedia article. It really waters down everything and doesn't give in as much a definition. I wanted to ask a personal opinion of most users.

Do you believe it is a judgement on Babylon, the destruction of Jerusalem (specifically at 70 AD) that may have already been fulfilled or is it a reference to the final apocalyptic judgement?

Is it a single event, spread over 24 hours or otherwise?
 
Rachel20 said:
Numerous passages from the OT and the NT, talks about the Day of the Lord.

Here are a few questions, that I hope I can pose to some of you

- 1. What is this phrase Day of the Lord?
-2. Is this a 24 hour time period or something else?
-3. Do you believe this event has already occurred, and if you do, what was it?


Please post with Scripture references and if there are events in history which you believe validate this, then do go ahead and share it. As this may be related to your eschatology views, please do specify what they are.

Thanks and God bless you.
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1. the day of the lord is the Day he comes on his cloud to smite the nations and the grid goes down and all the stubborn mulish false doctrine pastors and leaders who refuse to follow the Bible and teach fables are killed
through war, meteors volcanoes and pestilence all nations will fall and come to third world condition without gasoline or diesel and billions will die

those who are left will be those kept by God and the reason they are kept is they have a good heart

they will come to mount zion and hear the true gospel of obedience and love to God instead of the false gospel of say we are good and live lie the devil false churches.

there will be a time of teaching and getting to know the Lord

all animals will have died
the world will be pollted from nuclear radiation from world war 3 (the gathering of the kings by the devil) to kill anyone keeping the Sabbath.

time of trouble will last a few months...

then when they declare war on all who will not take the mark of the beast Jesus comes
 
This event has not occures since ther are still wicked people and false doctrines being taught,
God will send angel ezekiel 9 with a plague like in egypt to kill all the stubborn ones who teach anti Bible theology

also there are still fruits and vegetables to be bought

and there are still animals

after the day of the Lord no animal is alive

and no summer fruit

it happens in mid summer, and the fruits will nt ripen that year, and there will never be fruits again after that, all the trees die

we have about 6 months without food or water

either this summer or next summer depending on how hard we tudy our Bibles, it wont haen till his pure hearted ones who LISTEN to the bible and CHANGE thei ways are ready...

when do you think midsummer is?
august?
your guess good as mine
 
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The Day of the Lord = The Great Tribulation period./ Day of Vengeance.
 
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Rachel20 said:
Thanks p_rehbein.

I did see the wikipedia article. It really waters down everything and doesn't give in as much a definition. I wanted to ask a personal opinion of most users.

Do you believe it is a judgement on Babylon, the destruction of Jerusalem (specifically at 70 AD) that may have already been fulfilled or is it a reference to the final apocalyptic judgement?

Is it a single event, spread over 24 hours or otherwise?
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It is called in some places the time of Jacob's trouble.
 
Rachel20 said:
Thanks p_rehbein.
Is it a single event, spread over 24 hours or otherwise?
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It is a one year period...

Num 14:34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

Eze 4:6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.

Technically, the Great Tribulation is the time of Satans wrath and his empowerment of the Beast and lasts 2-1/2 years. Christ intervenes and pours out His Trumpet plagues and judgments for one year, the Day of the Lord.

I have posted a verse by verse cross reference between Mat 24 (Mark 13 and Luke 21) and Rev 6 before and won't here, but one can read it for themselves. We come down to the sixth seal...

Rev 6:12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
Rev 6:13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Rev 6:14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
Rev 6:15 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;

Mat 24:29 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:

The heavenly signs mark the end of the Tribulation and the Beginning of Christ's intervention. Notice in Mat 24:29, AFTER the tribulation...

Rev 6:16 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:
Rev 6:17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

The Day of the Lord.
 
Rachel 20,

John 8:32,
he's stating the correct outline.
you can do a 'phrase search' and type-in Great Day of The Lord, or The Day of His Wrath,
and then you can fill-in the details.
(it's in the OT about 30 times.)

Zephaniah is a Book describing The Day of The Lord..
chapter 3:8, is an interesting piece of information.

"Therefore wait for Me, says The Lord,
until the day I rise up for plunder;
My determination is to gather the nations to My assembly of Kingdoms,
to pour on them My indignation, all My fierce anger;
all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of My jealousy."

notice the purpose is prophetic in the gathering of all nations.

vs.9. speaks of restoring to the peoples a pure language, again,
neither of these two events have occurred as yet.
vs.8. is a special verse, in that in the Hebrew, this is the one and only verse
that contains all of the Hebrew alphabet in all of its forms,
that would be 22 lower-case letters and 5 of what we would call CAPITALS,
followed by the pure language for all peoples so that they may all call upon The Name of The Lord,
and to serve Him with one accord.
 
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I agree, but that would last not one year but at least 3 1/2 most likely 7 and then Christ returns.
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I might not have been clear on that, the tribulation is the time of Jacob's trouble, then the Day of the Lord is God's wrath on sinful unrepentant man...

Hos 6:1 Come, and let us return to the LORD; For He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up.
Hos 6:2 After two days He will revive us; On the third day He will raise us up, That we may live in His sight.

So after two years (Num 14:34, Ezek 4:6) and during the thrid year (the third year is not complete, hence 2-1/2 years) Israel returns to God and God raises them up.

Then there is the day of God's wrath on the unrepentant...

Rev 9:20 But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.
Rev 9:21 And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.

Rev 16:9 And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.

Rev 16:11 They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and did not repent of their deeds.
 
There are two very important and contrasted periods,
'Man’s Day’ (A.V. ‘man’s judgment’ 1 Cor. 4:3) and
‘The Lord’s Day’ (Rev.1:10).

The reference in 2 Timothy 3:1 is to the extreme verge of 'man’s day', which must give place to the Day of the Lord.
'This know also, that in the last days
perilous times shall come.'
(2 Tim 3:1)

English or Greek permits the saying - ‘the Lord’s day’ or ‘the day of the Lord’ as may seem most fitting. The Hebrew language however will not allow this, it is ‘the day of the Lord’. Should any maintain that there is an essential difference between ‘the Lord’s day’ and ‘the day of the Lord’, let him endeavour to persuade a builder, or an insurance company that there was an essential difference between ‘a wooden house’ and ‘a house of wood’. The difference is one of emphasis, but the essential meaning is the same. A parallel can be found in 1 Corinthians 4:3 where the words ‘man’s judgment’ is really ‘man’s day’ - man’s day evidently being the time when man sits in judgment, and the Lord’s day the day when the Lord will ascend the throne.

'Yom Jehovah' - ‘The Day of the Lord’ occurs in Isaiah 13:6,9;
Ezekiel 13:5; Joel 1:15; 2:1,11; 3:14; Amos 5:18,20; Obadiah 15;
Zephaniah 1:7,14 and Malachi 4:5.

'Yom l’ Jehovah - Isaiah 2:12; Ezekiel 30:3; Zechariah 14:1.

In the New Testament 'the Day of the Lord' - 'he hemera kuriou' -
1 Thessalonians 5:2; 2 Thessalonians 2:2 (R.V.) and 2 Peter 3:10.

In Christ Jesus
Chris
 
the use of the phrase 'in the day of the lord' indicates that it is not necessarily a twenty-four hour day...it is a time period of unspecified length...defined by its events instead of by its duration...

at the same time the fact that the day of the lord is described as coming suddenly indicates that it is a very short time period...probably no more than a day or a few days and certainly nothing like a year or several years...
 
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