A key to
understanding many of the prophecies referring to the day of the Lord or that
day is a clear understanding of the day of the Lord. It begins with the
Lord’s return for His millennial reign2Pet 3:10 followed by the
second resurrection among the rest of the dead: And I saw thrones, and they
sat on them, and judgment was given to them: and I saw the souls of them that
were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had
not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark on
their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a
thousand years (but the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand
years were finished). This is the first resurrection. Rev 20:4-5
The day of the Lord is the thousand year millennium, which is followed by
eternity with a new heaven and earth: And I saw a new heaven and a new
earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was
no more sea.Rev 21:1
The day of the
Lord is the day of His wrath: Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel both
with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the
sinners thereof out of it. For the stars of heaven and the constellations
thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going
forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. And I will punish the
world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the
arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the
terrible. I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the
golden wedge of Ophir. Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall
remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of
his fierce anger:Is 13:9-13 And I saw heaven opened, and
behold a white horse; and he that sat on him was called Faithful and True, and
in righteousness he does judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire,
and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew,
but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name
is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him
upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth
goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule
them with a rod of iron: and he treads the winepress of the fierceness and
wrath of Almighty God.Rev. 19:11-15
The day of the
Lord is also the day of His rest: For he spoke in a certain place of the
seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. Seeing therefore it
remains that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached
entered not in because of unbelief.Heb 4:4-8
The day of the
Lord is the seventh millennial day,Heb 4:4,7 and what is prophesied along with the seventh millennial
day is the first 6 millennial days, which make the seventh day the seventh: The
first 1000-year day is the day in which Adam died at the age of 930 years:Gen
5:5 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not
eat of it: for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die.
Gen 2:17 The last or
latter days, the three 1000-year days at the end of the week, are the time of
the Messiah:Acts 2:17, Heb 1:2 And it shall come to pass in the
last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the
top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations
[goyim: uncircumcised] shall flow unto it,Is 2:2 and the
uncircumcised have been flowing into the Lord’s house free from the law of
sin and deathRom 8:2 since His first coming. To the Jews, Hosea
also prophesied of these last three days: After two days will he revive us:
in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.Hos
6:2 The day of the Lord is the last millennial day of the last
days: But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with
the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not
slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering
to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to
repentance. But the day of the Lord
will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away
with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth
also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 2Pet 3:8-10
Prophecies
become clearer when we read them within the framework of seven millennial days
between the fall of Adam and the final, white throne judgment with the last
days or latter days being the three between the Lord’s first coming
and the judgment and with the day of the Lord, being also the day of His wrath
and the day of His rest, being the last thousand year day: For yet seven
days, ... and every living substance that I have made will I destroy
from off the face of the earth.Gen 7:4
