The Bible tells us that the day of Christ is not at hand.
Now just to help you understand what the day of Christ is, let's look up verses that use
the term "day of Christ" in the Bible.
Go to 1 Corinthians chapter number one, 1 Corinthians chapter number one.
And while you're turning there, let me just mention to you that the modern Bible versions
completely twist this passage, which shouldn't surprise us because if it's that important
of a passage, of course they're going to change it, right?
And it's so important that we use the King James Bible.
There's so many things that these modern versions twist where they call Joseph Jesus' father,
where they remove 16 entire verses in the New Testament alone, where they sit there
and complicate salvation and make it difficult and hard when the Bible talks about it being
narrow as in few are saved.
They say salvation's difficult, like you'd have to work your way into heaven instead
of just trusting Jesus Christ as your savior.
But there are so many things that these modern versions do.
Well, one of the things that they do here where the King James Bible is really clear
saying do not let anyone tell you that the day of Christ is at hand.
That day shall not come until X, Y, and Z happens first.
You know what the new versions do, the ESV, the NIV?
They'll change it to don't let anybody tell you that the day of the Lord has already happened.
So the King James is saying, hey, don't let anybody tell you that the day of Christ is
at hand, meaning that it's about to happen.
They change it to, well, just don't let anybody tell you that it's already happened in order
to make it compatible with a pre-tribulation rapture.
Now look if you would at 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 8, "Who shall also confirm you unto
the end that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ."
So whatever the day of the Lord Jesus is, it's a day where we want to be found pure
on that day.
Flip over to 1 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 5, "To deliver such in one unto Satan for
the destruction of the flesh that the Spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus."
So it's a day of salvation.
Flip over to 2 Corinthians chapter number 1 verse 14, 2 Corinthians chapter number 1
verse 14.
We're looking at every single mention of the day of Jesus Christ in the New Testament.
Look at 2 Corinthians 1, 14, "As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your
rejoicing even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus."
Now let's just look at some things that we've learned from these three mentions so far.
In the first mention it said that God would confirm us unto the end that we would be blameless
in the day of the Lord Jesus.
So that's the end of something, isn't it?
Confirm us unto the end so that we'll be blameless in the day of the Lord Jesus.
First Corinthians 5 talked about the spirit being saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Second Corinthians 1, 14 talks about we are your rejoicing.
He's talking about people that he had won to Christ.
He said, "We are your rejoicing even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus."
Sounds like a reunion of the person who got you saved with the person who got him saved,
and it's a day of salvation, and it's a day that's the end of something, and it's a day
when we want to be found blameless before him, okay?
Sounds like we're going to see Jesus on that day.
Day of Jesus Christ, the day of the Lord Jesus?
Look if you would at Philippians chapter one, verse six, you'll see something similar.
It says, "Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you,
will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ."
So when we got saved the Lord began a good work in us and he's going to perform that
good work until the day of the Lord Jesus.
So again it's the end of something isn't it?
I'll tell you what it's the end of, our life on this earth.
And he's going to continue working in our lives until the day of the Lord Jesus because
at that point we're caught up together to be with him in the clouds to meet the Lord
in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
You see, sanctification is the good work that he has begun in us.
He wants to make us holy as he is holy so he works in our lives, he chastises us and
chastises us, the Bible says in Hebrews 12, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
So he works in our lives but once we are caught up together with him in the clouds to meet
the Lord in the air, we're going to be changed in a moment in a twinkle of an eye.
We don't need sanctification anymore at that point because when we see him, we shall be
like him for we shall see him as he is.
We will at that point be glorified with him.
So the sanctification work is complete.
The good work that was begun in us, he will perform until the day of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It makes perfect sense.
Flip over to Philippians 2 verse 16, it says, "Holding forth the word of life that I may
rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain."
So this day of Christ is when the apostle Paul is going to see the fruits of his labor.
On that day, he's going to sit back and say, "Hey, I didn't labor in vain, I didn't run
in vain."
He's going to see the fruits of his life of soul winning in ministry and winning people
unto Jesus Christ and the evangelism that he had done.
He's going to see that all come to fruition.
And then of course, we have the seventh mention, which is the one that we already looked at
in 2 Thessalonians 2, where it says, "Don't let anybody tell you that it's at hand."
So all this fits perfectly with the rapture, with Christ coming in the clouds and us being
caught up together with him.
Every mention fits perfectly with him.