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So this next question was asked 
in the previous one, but I'll ask it again. So what does the day of the Lord 
mean when used in the Bible? It's different than the Lord's 
day. The day of the Lord refers to the day of the Lord's visitation 
in judgment. And so there are many days of 
the Lord in the Old Testament, really kind of two primary ones, 
but they really are typify and point ahead to the final day 
of judgment when God comes again. So you see the day of the Lord 
certainly in Isaiah 13. I think it's in Joel chapter 
2. Amos 5 speaks about it and others, 
I'm just forgetting some of them, but the New Testament speaks 
about it, 1 Thessalonians 5 and 2 Peter chapter 3, but in the 
Old Testament it had to do with Israel violating the Old Covenant. 
And so God was gonna visit them in judgment. And so the Northern 
Kingdom was dispossessed in 722 BC by Assyria. That was the day 
of the Lord for them. Certainly with Amos, that's what 
he's speaking about. And then Joel is definitely speaking 
about when the South, Jerusalem, Judah is taken in 586 BC and 
the whole nation is then dispossessed and sent into captivity. but 
those all typify, I also think AD 70 is the day of the Lord 
as well, it's putting judgment on Israel, but 1 Thessalonians 
5 and 2 Peter 3 do speak to that final day when God will come 
again and it'll come like, he'll come like a thief in the night 
and he will judge the living and the dead on that day, so 
the day of the Lord is the day of the Lord's visitation in judgment. Okay.