The last day is when believers in Jesus are resurrected (John 6:40) and also when unbelievers are judged (John 12:48). But Revelation Chapter 20 puts 1000 years between the first resurrection and the great white throne judgment (according to premillennialism). So does the last day span the entire 1000 years?
My proposed answer is yes. Because when Jesus comes as the light of the world, there is no night in the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:25; 22:5), which I think comes to earth at the beginning of the millennium. Zechariah 14:7 (NKJV) similarly says regarding the day of the LORD that "at evening time it shall happen that it will be light". So if there is no night, then the last day will continue forever in the New Jerusalem.
There could still be solar days and nights, months, and years, based on the movement of the sun, earth, and moon, but at least there is no contradiction with the the great white throne judgment taking place 1000 years later. What do you think?
This is why keeping God's Feast Days are so important. They reveal God's 7000 year plan.
2Pe 3:8 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.
The week including the weekly Sabbath reveal the seven thousand year plan with the Sabbath as the type of the Millennium.
The Passover pictures Christ's sacrifice that reconciles us to the Father...
Rom 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Rom 5:9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
Rom 5:10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
Notice that we are saved by Christ's life, His resurrection from the dead.
Next are the Days of Unleavened Bread. The picture of us repenting and striving to put sin out of our lives...
1Co 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
1Co 5:7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
1Co 5:8
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Notice here Paul admonishes us to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Next is the Feast of Pentecost picturing the giving of the Holy Spirit and the birth of the New Testament Church.
Now we come to the fall Feasts beginning with the Feast of Trumpets picturing the return of Christ...
Mat 24:31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Rev 11:15 Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!"
1Co_15:52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1Th 4:13 But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope.
1Th 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.
1Th 4:15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.
1Th 4:16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
1Th 4:17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
Notice we meet Him in the air? In the Earth's atmosphere. Now where does Christ go from here?
Zec 14:1 Behold, the day of the LORD is coming, And your spoil will be divided in your midst.
Verse 4 And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, Which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, From east to west, Making a very large valley; Half of the mountain shall move toward the north And half of it toward the south.
We do not go to Heaven, Christ comes back to the Earth.
Joh 14:1 "Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.
Joh 14:2 In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
Joh 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you,
I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
We just read where He will be...
Zec 14:4 And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, Which faces Jerusalem on the east.
Next we have the Day of Atonement...
I will continue in the next post.