Today I want to talk about the day of the Lord.
Now the day of the Lord is a very important concept in scripture and I would strongly
encourage anybody who cares at all about Bible prophecy to look up every single time the
term day of the Lord is used in the Bible.
I'm just going to read you one example, but you really need to look up all of the occurrences
of the day of the Lord in both Old and New Testament.
Let me read you one in verse 20 of Acts chapter 2.
The Bible reads,
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and
notable day of the Lord come.
And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Now when you're studying the day of the Lord you'll notice that over and over again the
thing that is emphasized in both Old and New Testament is the sun and moon being darkened.
Those are the main signs in heaven that have to do with the day of the Lord.
You say, what is the day of the Lord?
Well, if you study it throughout the Old Testament it's very clearly the day when God pours out
his wrath upon this earth.
The day of the Lord is a day of clouds and of thick darkness.
It's a day of wrath.
It's a day of punishment.
It's a day of judgment upon the earth.
It's a day when God's going to pour out his wrath in a way that he's never done before.
I mean, it's going to be a great and dreadful day of the Lord, the Bible says.
And it's always associated with the sun and moon being darkened.
You say, what does this have to do with the rapture?
Well, the Bible calls the day that the rapture takes place in 1 Thessalonians 5, verse 2,
the Bible calls it the day of the Lord.
Very clearly he says in 1 Thessalonians 5, 2, well first he says in verse 1, but of the
times and the seasons, brethren, referring to the rapture that he just mentioned in chapter
4, but of the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you, for
yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
So he connects the timing of the day of the Lord with the timing of the rapture.
You say, why is that?
Well, because they both happen on the same day.
Now when the Bible uses the term day of the Lord, it's usually emphasizing the wrath that's
going to be poured out on the wicked, on the sinful.
The Bible's real clear in Luke 17 that the day that God pours out his wrath is the same
day of the rapture.
See God's going to remove us from this earth right before he pours out his wrath.
Just as the same day Lot went out of Sodom, he rained fire and brimstone, and the same
day that Noah entered into the ark, the flood came, God will remove us from this earth,
and then 30 minutes later, he will pour out his wrath in the form of fire and brimstone
from heaven.
The day of the Lord, the day of God's wrath, is the exact same day of the rapture.
That's why in Revelation 6 when the sun and moon are darkened, the Bible says the great
day of his wrath is come.
Present tense, it's just now arriving, the day of the Lord is, the day of his great wrath
is come, and in Matthew 24, it says that when the sun and moon are darkened, that's when
Christ comes in the clouds and we're gathered up to be with him when the trumpet sounds.
And so the day of the Lord is extremely significant.
As you study it through scripture, you'll see it's always tied in with the sun and moon
being darkened.
Jesus told us the rapture would happen after the sun and moon are darkened, and he calls
the rapture in 1 Thessalonians 4, he calls it the day of the Lord in 1 Thessalonians 5.2.
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