What do you all think about Peter's use of HASTENING the coming of the day of GOD..?
Rev. The Theme of the Book
“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice,
as of a trumpet” (Revelation 1:10).
A single verse thunders to us the theme of this book: the gloomy Day of the Lord.
Yet people stumble over this verse—causing them to misunderstand the entire message!
Revelation 1:10 and over 30 other prophecies mention the terrible
Day of the Lord that will decisively conclude [this age]! not the world
The Prophet Zephaniah says this time is hastening greatly, or exceedingly!
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” (Zephaniah 1:13-14).
Notice the phrase “the voice.” The Bible is a lot more specific than people think.
A Zephaniah type is delivering a strong warning about the Day of the Lord today.
“The voice” precedes the arrival of the Day of the Lord,
which is now speeding toward us as fast as a rocket launching into space.
“And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand
to heaven,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” (Revelation 10:5-6).
“Time no longer” should be “no more delay.”
A specific event took place that caused world events to speed up rapidly.
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“And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil,
and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth,
and his angels were cast out with him” (Revelation 12:9).
God cast down Satan and confined him to this Earth. Satan and his demons are
no longer free to roam the universe, so they have been creating chaos in this
world like mankind has never seen before!