This is a variety of resources and thoughts on the Day of the Lord. Looking into this has caused me to repent of missing the mark, of not seeing this and making it clear to others, a day of final judgment is approaching. I think we sense how much this message will cost and how it will change our day to day life and so we shrink from it.
"How can we pray with such singleness of
heart and purpose if our dominant desire is for nothing more than
God’s continued blessing on our temporal tranquility?"Reggie Kelly
Compare Isaiah 13:6-11 with Jeremiah
30:4-7 . Isaiah 13 describes the wrath coming on the nations after
the time of Jacobs trouble described in Jeremiah 30...both describe
pain anguish like a women in travail.... look at romans
2:2-11....tribulation and anguish , upon every soul that does evil,
of the Jew first, and also of the gentiles ...julie
“If not cut short, no flesh would
survive.” Only grace, only mercy, nothing of us, period! Absolute
truth!
“Your kingdom come, Your will be
done.”
Suicide, discouragement and despair are
tied in to loosing sight of purpose. The day of the Lord, properly understood, gives us purpose, binds us together in mission, keeps us from growing too strongly attached to this world system, provides the impetus for intercessory prayer and the action of love that naturally follows such prayer.
Isaiah 66:7-9 “All these are the
beginning of birth pains.” Jer. 4:31
Everything is working toward God
bringing glory out of a resurrection out of the dust.
“knowing the terror of the Lord, we
persuade men” (
2Cor
5:11)
"It will be the exposure of pride in the
presence of His meekness, and so on. The brightness of His appearing
will be to those in the graves and out of the graves an instant and
automatic exposure and condemnation of all that is short of His
glory. That is why it is so terrible to suppose that the light and
holiness of God condemns only what we would judge as willfully evil.
That is pure humanism. No, His unapproachable light condemns all that
is short of His glory, which is to say, short of Christ. That’s why
any supposed sanctification that presumes to mix anything of man with
Christ is self condemned, as short of His glory. The only acceptable
righteousness then is the righteousness that is gloriously His alone
and nothing of our own, else it is a righteousness that is short of
the glory of God.
That is why any supposed personal sanctification that is ‘short’
of His glory is evil, simply because it is a false covering, and thus
an affront, as to “climb up some other way” (
Jn
10:1). To mix is to destroy. That is why the final unveiling of
that unapproachable light will cause all that is outside of Christ to
blush in shame and terror and turn in on itself in unmitigated and
unbearable self condemnation. The one thing most desired would be the
presumed refuge of death, but neither death nor hell can provide
sanctuary from His everlasting omnipresence." Reggie Kelly mysteryofisrael.org
"Israel reveals the hearts of men and Jerusalem sifts the nations." Phil Haney
Prior to the death and destruction of the day of the Lord there
will have been amazing, blatant demonstrations of the Lord's power
and Satan's lies. The choice will be stark, clear and black and white. No one will "fall into it" by accident.
"Day
of the Lord"
Isa
2:12 For the day
of the LORD of hosts Shall come
upon everything proud and lofty, Upon everything lifted up—And it
shall be brought low—
Isa
13:6 Wail, for the day
of the LORD is at hand! It
will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Isa
13:9 Behold, the day
of the LORD comes, Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, To
lay the land desolate; And He will destroy its sinners from it.
Isa
34:8 For it
is the day of the LORD's
vengeance, The year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
Jer
46:10 For this is
the day of the Lord GOD of
hosts, A day of vengeance, That He may avenge Himself on His
adversaries. The sword shall devour; It shall be satiated and made
drunk with their blood; For the Lord GOD of hosts has a sacrifice In
the north country by the River Euphrates.
Lam
2:22 "You have invited
as to a feast day The terrors that surround me. In the day
of the LORD's anger There was no refugee or survivor. Those
whom I have borne and brought up My enemies have destroyed.”
Eze
13:5 You have not gone up
into the gaps to build a wall for the house of Israel to stand in
battle on the day of the LORD.
Eze
30:3 For the day is
near, Even the day of the LORD
is near; It will be a day of
clouds, the time of the Gentiles.
Joe
1:15 Alas for the day! For
the day of the LORD is
at hand; It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.
Joe
2:1 Blow 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 is coming, For it is at hand:
Joe
2:11 The LORD gives voice
before His army, For His camp is very great; For strong is
the One who executes His word. For the day
of the LORD is great and
very terrible; Who can endure it?
Joe
2:31 The sun shall be turned
into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the
great and awesome day of the LORD.
Joe
3:14 Multitudes, multitudes
in the valley of decision! For the day
of the LORD is near in the
valley of decision.
Amo
5:18 Woe to you who desire
the day of the LORD! For
what good is the day
of the LORD to you? It will be
darkness, and not light.
Amo
5:20 Is
not the day of the LORD
darkness, and not light? Is it not
very dark, with no brightness in it?
Oba
1:15 "For the day
of the LORD upon all the nations is
near; As you have done, it shall be done to you; Your reprisal shall
return upon your own head.
Zep
1:7 Be silent in the presence
of the Lord GOD; For the day of the
LORD is at hand, For the
LORD has prepared a sacrifice; He has invited His guests.
Zep
1:8 "And it shall be, In
the day of the LORD's
sacrifice, That I will punish the princes and the king's children,
And all such as are clothed with foreign apparel.
Zep
1:14 The great day
of the LORD is near; It
is near and hastens quickly. The noise of the day
of the LORD is bitter; There the mighty men shall cry out.
Zep
1:18 Neither their silver nor
their gold Shall be able to deliver them In the day
of the LORD's wrath; But the whole land shall be devoured By
the fire of His jealousy, For He will make speedy riddance Of all
those who dwell in the land.
Zep
2:2 Before the decree is
issued, Or the day passes like
chaff, Before the LORD's fierce anger comes upon you, Before the day
of the LORD's anger comes upon you!
Zep
2:3 Seek the LORD, all you
meek of the earth, Who have upheld His justice. Seek righteousness,
seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden In the day
of the LORD's anger.
Zec
14:1 Behold, the day
of the LORD is coming, And your spoil will be divided in your
midst.
Mal
4:5 Behold, I will send you
Elijah the prophet Before the coming of the great and dreadful day
of the LORD.
Act
2:20 THE SUN SHALL BE TURNED
INTO DARKNESS, AND THE MOON INTO BLOOD, BEFORE THE COMING OF THE
GREAT AND AWESOME DAY OF THE LORD.
1Co
5:5 deliver such a one to
Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved
in the day of the Lord
Jesus.
2Co
1:14 (as also you have
understood us in part), that we are your boast as you also are
ours, in the day of the Lord
Jesus.
1Th
5:2 For you yourselves know
perfectly that the day of the Lord
so comes as a thief in the night.
2Pe
3:10 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.
The day of the Lord does not come upon the saints of God as a thief in the night, they have been watching, preparing, praying and witnessing with their very lives if necessary. The day of the Lord, does come as a thief on the unbelieving because they have watched the two witnesses be killed and are in the process of a 3 day celebration with gift exchange when everything completely changes and the final hour of cleansing of the earth begins.
A day
when the wrongs will be made right. Comfort for those going through
persecution.
Isaiah
19:19-24
And it shall be said in that day, Lo,
this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save
us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be
glad and rejoice in his salvation.
And it shall come to pass in that
day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall
come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the
outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the
holy mount at Jerusalem.
In that day shall the LORD of hosts
be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the
residue of his people,
For in my jealousy
and in the fire of my wrath have I
spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the
land of Israel;
Philippian
1:6,10 and 2:16
2Pe
3:12
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God,
wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the
elements shall melt with fervent heat?
Rev
16:14
For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which
go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to
gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Many will say to me in that day, Lord,
Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast
out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?Matt 7:22
on the day when, according to my
gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ
Jesus.
who will also confirm you to the end,
blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
[ The Return of
Christ ] “But in those days, after that
tribulation, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its
light,
Peter saying “this is that”
referencing Day of the Lord scriptures, but it is obvious that the
“this” that started to break out that day is a down payment, for
the fullness yet to come of the great and terrible day of the Lord.
“Pentecost is the feast of
first-fruits, and it is the pre-millennial view that what has come at
Pentecost through the revelation of the mystery of the gospel is the
“first-fruits” of the salvation that will yet come to the
penitent remnant of Israel who survive the time of Jacob’s trouble
(
Jer 30:7
with
Dan 12:1;
Mt 24:21)”
The Meeting in the Wilderness
“Again, the issue is the mystery. If we believe that God has
ordained that the Jew should be moved to jealousy by what he sees in
the church (
Ro
11:11), then certainly the church has a ways to go. If we are not
pre-tribulational, then it follows that the church will be here in
the capacity of witness and friend to Israel in the day of their
greatest national calamity. Rev 12 speaks of the woman being fed in
the wilderness. You might interpret that as angels, or God, but we
believe it refers to those who will know the prophecy and the time,
and will be prepared to receive and succor the Jews in the hour of
their flight from ‘sudden destruction’.
To be sure, that is an inference; but it follows from our
conviction that God has ordained that Israel and the church meet in
the wilderness of flight and persecution, to receive refuge, succor,
and decisive prophetic instruction from a church that foresaw the
evil and made ready.
The conversation that takes place in that wilderness and the
demonstration of the church’s love to risk its life in costly
identification with the despised nation will be used of God to
prepare and soften Israel for the gospel to break upon their
understanding in the same way that Saul’s exposure to Stephen’s
witness played a role in preparing him for his encounter on the
Damascus road.
Also, if you take the pre-day of the Lord context of Isa 28, as
signifying an eschatological “covenant with death and hell”, that
causes Israel to rest in a deadly false security, then you can see
that this action is greatly protested by those who bring a witness of
prophetic warning against this ill-fated presumption (in the context
of a defense of the mystery of the gospel, “here a little and there
a little”). The context shows that this protest of Israel’s
decision to trust in man is also the gospel (“the rest and the
refreshing whereby the weary is caused to rest”).
But notice that this prophetic warning comes to Israel by voices
that are rejected and dismissed, particularly because it comes to
them from a people of another tongue. This is an idiom used in other
places to refer to gentiles. In other passages, such as
Isa
35:4, we see the presence of a prophetic voice in the wilderness
that aims to encourage the hope of the devastated nation that the
time of their deliverance is near at hand.
Simply put, the church is the prophetic voice that has the key of
interpretation. The godly remnant will employ the prophetic
scriptures to point Israel to the savior. Prophecy is God’s final
‘dynamite’ that will prevail over Jewish unbelief. The church is
the prophetic priestly intercessor that God uses in the travail of
bringing Israel to birth after the time of unequaled judgment (
Isa
66:8), in the same way that He used Paul to travail till Christ
be formed in his Galatians.” Reggie Kelly
Day of hope
Mat
7:22_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________”the
restoration of the nation as a distinctly Jewish nation (
Dan
2:44). Simply put, if there is no millennium, there can be no
literal fulfillment of the vast amount of prophecy that depicts a
glorious future for benighted and beleaguered Israel after the
unequaled tribulation at the coming day of the Lord, which the New
Testament equates with the time of Christs return “
“We need to see this mystery, not only for Israel but for
ourselves. When God’s elect are exposed through disobedience
to “the yoke of a cruel one” (
Jer
30:14), it is then they learn how easy His yoke is by comparison,
and so flee back under the refuge of the covenant, which only
the believer has in Christ.
To understand this hidden
principle is to escape much that might otherwise offend and
threaten the collapse of faith. We must know
for Israel and for ourselves what Jesus understood when He
said to Pilate: “You could have no power at all against Me
unless it had been given you from above.” Where God’s true
elect are concerned, this could as well be said of Satan as of Pilate
(
Ro 8:28).
If
a prophet of Habakkuk’s spiritual stature could be mystified and
offended by God’s use of evil, what can be expected for the latent
humanism that so deeply pervades most of Christendom when Israel will
be betrayed not only by the nations, but once more by
institutional Christendom as well?”
“Therefore, we must not faint when our human
sensibilities will be overwhelmed. The reason is clear: Just as
God ‘got His man’ on the Damascus road, He will get His
nation, regardless! He does not spare in His pursuit (Jacob’s
trouble;
Jer
30:7;
Dan
12:1;
Mt
24:21-22; compare also
Deut 32:36
with
Dan
12:7; also
Gal
1:15-16 with
Ps
102:13;
110:3).
The church must come to understand what Israel will learn in the
crucible of Jacob’s trouble, namely, He will not spare to bring all
the way down just so that He might raise His afflicted all
the way up to sit in heavenly places in Christ, to behold His
beauty forever! It will be worth it all.
It is
so important that we do not get caught up in endless comparisons
of things that are at best relative.
It is our prophetic calling
to see beyond the veil to that glorious heart and wisdom that does
not spare to sacrifice the thing that is momentary for a far
greater weight of glory. We must see this for Israel and for
ourselves. The judgment may seem by every human measurement and
reckoning to be excessive, but the eye of faith knows it is not, and
chooses to justify God rather than man. “Blessed be the name of the
Lord!” “Blessed is the man who does not fall away on account of
me” (
Mt
11:6).”
“Let the reader understand,” i.e., understand what
Daniel wrote) is critical in three vital areas:
1) Our protection from unequaled deception (
Mt
24:4,
11,
24;
Mk
13:23;
2Thes
2:3).
2) Our readiness to follow where God is taking the church
corporately through the constraining influence of these specifically
timed events.
3) Our ability to understand the true essence of what is at stake
in terms of what these events reveal, but most importantly to
apprehend with all saints the full weight of glory that God has
invested in this eschatological vision (
Isa
28:12;
Dan
9:24;
12:9-10;
Hab 2:2-3;
Ro
11:25-36;
Rev
10:7).
It all begins with our obedience to simply ‘do’ what Jesus
said. Jesus had a wise and glorious strategy in this simple but vital
instruction. When we go to Daniel in search of that particular event
(the abomination of desolation;
Mt
24:15), we find it specifically mentioned in
Dan
8:11-14;
9:27;
11:31;
12:11.
Jesus well knew that the prayerful inquirer would not only find the
mentioned event and sufficient evidence of its nature, but also the
other signal events that lead up to the abomination (
Dan
11:23-31) and those that following after (
Dan
11:31-45).
The Lord also knew that our identification of the abomination and
its relation to other prophesied events would bring into view the
mysterious gap separating Messiah’s two comings to Israel (
Dan
9:24-27), and the pre-determined time frame of the last seven
years (Daniel’s last or seventieth week;
Dan
9:27), which is ordained to bring in the Antichrist and the
finishing of the mystery of iniquity (
Dan
8:11;
9:27;
11:31-37;
12:11;
2Thes 2:4,
7-8).
Jesus knew that our locating the time and nature of the abomination
of desolation would constitute THE key that would bring into clarity
and alignment all other prophecy leading to the climactic fulfillment
of the covenant in the day of the Lord.
He knew the use the Father had intended to make of this
specifically revealed pre-determined time frame to depose Satan (
Dan
12:1 with
Rev
12:7-14), and to crowd the church to its final fullness (
Dan
11:32-33;
12:10;
Eph 4:13;
Rev
12:10-11), and Israel to the place of repentance by the removal
of their power (
Lev
26:19;
Deut
32:36;
Dan
12:7; the “set time” to favor Zion;
Ps
102:13 w/ 110:3;
Ezek
39:22). Thus finishing the mystery that brings the age to its
predestined consummation (
Rev
10:7). So much is invested in this simple exercise of following
the Lord’s instruction to read Daniel in search of this event,
which to neglect will surely prove very costly if not fatal (
Mk
13:22).”
“The goal of Jacob’s trouble is to bring the Jew to an
end of His own power. It is significant that this is precisely the
place where Jesus is revealed to the Jewish heart, namely, at the end
of power (“when He sees that their power is gone …” compare
Deut 32:36
with
Dan 12:7).
This is because the strength of the veil that is over the Jewish
heart, and indeed over every natural heart, stands in what scripture
calls, “the pride of your power” (
Lev
26:19). It is what Paul calls, “confidence in the flesh”
(
2Cor 1:9;
Phil 3:3-4).
When this is taken away, so is the veil in the revelation of the face
of Jesus Christ (
2Cor
3:18;
4:6).
“
“just as I believe that Stephen’s testimony and martyrdom had
a preparatory influence for the predestined event of Paul’s
revelation of Christ on Damascus road”
