Saturday, June 9, 2012

THE DAY OF THE LORD: PART ONE

When someone speaks of the "day of the Lord," we almost automatically think of a single day, rather than a series of events that take place over a period of several years.  I will begin this series by providing the Bible references to the phrase itself.  There are twenty-six verses in the Bible which include the phrase, "the day of the Lord."
*  From Isaiah - "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" (2:12).  "Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty" (13:6).  "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" (13:9).  "For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion" (34:8).
From Jeremiah - "For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates" (46:10).
From Lamentations - "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" (2:22).
From Ezekiel - "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" (13:5).  "For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen" (30:3).
From Joel - "Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come" (1:15).  "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" (2:1). "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?" (2:11).  "Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision" (3:14).
From Amos - "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" (5:18).  "Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?" (5:20).
*  From Obediah - "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" (1:15). 
Note:  The remainder of the Old Testament references will continue on the next page.
One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day!

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