Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.Wail, for Yahweh’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.Wail ye; for the day of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
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… It is filled with indignation, wrath, and God's judgment. Let me give you a sampling of it. I have put it here in the page of my Bible. This is from Isaiah chapter 13, verse 6. Wail, for the day of the Lord is at hand. It shall come as destruction from the Almighty. And this is Jeremiah 46, verse 10. For this is the day of the Lord of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge himself on his adversaries. This is Amos chapter 5, verse 18. Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord. To what end is it for you? The day of the Lord is darkness and not light. Jesus spoke about the day of the Lord in Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21. Those three chapters are devoted to that period of time described by the Old Testament prophets as the day of the Lord, also known as the tribulation period, the coming day of judgment, the coming day of wrath. …
… clearly. Isaiah said, The day of the Lord of hosts shall come upon everything proud and lofty, upon everything lifted up, and it shall be brought low. Isaiah also said, Wail, for the day of the Lord is at hand. And then he said, Behold, the day of the Lord comes cruel with both wrath and fierce anger to lay the land desolate. Jeremiah said, This is the day of the Lord, God of hosts, a day of vengeance, that He may avenge Himself on His adversaries. Joel says, The day of the Lord is at hand, it shall come as destruction from the Almighty. Joel 2.11, the day of the Lord is great and very terrible. Same chapter, verse 31, the sun shall be turned into darkness, the moon into blood before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord. Prophet Amos says, Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! For what good is the day of the Lord to you? Is not the day of the Lord darkness and not light?" Malachi writes that the day of the Lord is a great and dreadful day. …
… But the sun is going to go black here in a different way. Isaiah wrote of this very phenomenon in Isaiah 13, verse 6. It's a picture that is parallel to Revelation. Isaiah 13, 6, the day of the Lord is near. Day of the Lord is a technical term for final judgment. It will come as destruction from the Almighty. Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man's heart will melt. They will be terrified. Pains and anguish will take hold of them. They will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another in astonishment, their faces aflame. Behold the day of the Lord is coming, cruel with fury and burning anger to make the land of desolation, and He will exterminate its sinners from it. For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not flash forth their light. The sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon will not shed its light. Thus I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. …