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Ask FGBC #28: What is the "day of the Lord"?

Unknown · 2024-11-16 · 320 words · 2 min

[Music] so this next question was uh asked in the previous one but I'll ask it again um 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 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 uh but they really are typify and point Ahad to the final day of judgment when God comes again so uh you see the day of the Lord certainly in Isa is it Isaiah 13 I think it's in Joel chapter 2 uh Amos 5 speaks about it and others I'm just forgetting some of them but the New Testament speaks about it first uh 1 Thessalonians 5 and and 2 Peter chapter 3 but uh in the Old Testament it had to do with Israel violating the old Covenant and so God was going to visit them uh in judgment and so uh 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 um and then Joel is definitely speaking about when the South um uh Jerusalem the Judah is taken in 586 BC and the whole nation is then dispossessed and sent it into captivity but those all typify I also think ad70 is the day of the Lord as well it's putting judgment on Israel um but 1 Thessalonians 5 and 2 Peter 3 do speak to that final day uh when God will come again and it'll come like he'll come like a thief in the night and um 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 uh in judgment okay