We are all but an infinitesimal part of one marvelous and stupendous whole; a whole whose body we call nature and who’s soul is of God.
Do Scriptures declare and prove that the day of the Lord and the catching away of the body of Christ are two very different events? They do! read the following and compare the vast contrast between these two very different events. In each of the following cases, the LORD is addressing the Jews,
Amos 5:18-20 says “Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! For what good is the day of the Lord to you? It will be darkness, and not light. It will be as though a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him! Or as though he went into the house, leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him! Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light? Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it?”
Isaiah 13:9, “The day of the Lord” as “Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger.”
Jeremiah 46:10, “A day of vengeance, that He (the LORD) may avenge Himself on His adversaries.”
Joel 2:11 reads, “The day of the Lord is great and very terrible;” adding, “Who can endure it?”
Malachi 3:2 expands on Joel saying, “But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like launderers soap.”
Joel 2:1-2, “For the day of the LORD is coming, for it is at hand: A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, like the morning clouds spread over the mountains.”
Now let’s compare and contrast the following with the above.
This statement in Amos 5:18, “Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord” stands in stark contrast with the statement made in.
2 Timothy 4:8 that the Lord will give “the crown of righteousness” to all who “have loved His appearing.”
Amos 15, clearly states God’s displeasure with anyone desiring “The day of the Lord,” and another scripture just as clearly states his pleasure with those who “Have loved His appearing.” This should show any serious student of the Bible that these scriptures are speaking of two very different events.
The following contrast the lost from the saved,
The Lost, Malachi 3:2, “Who can endure the day of His coming?” is essentially different from the exhortation found in,
1 John 2:28, “And now, little children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.”
One clearly shows that no one “Can endure the day of His coming,” while another scripture just as clearly states, it’s possible to, “Have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.” These verses cannot be speaking of the same event.
Malachi 3:2, “Who can stand when He appears?” is radically different from the exhortation in,
Luke 21:36, “Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.” What things? Answer, the 7 years of tribulation.
No contradiction here; we have observed before, one verse clearly shows that no one “Can stand when He appears,” while another tells us to “Pray that you may be counted worthy... to stand before the Son of Man.”
The two following verses stand in stark contrast to the exhortation found in Titus,
The two following verses stand in stark contrast to the exhortation found in Titus,
Joel 2:2 reveals, “The day of the Lord” is “A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick darkness,”
Amos 5:20 reads, “Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light? Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it?”
Titus 2:13 that we should be “Looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.”
One scripture very clearly teaches that the gloominess of “The day of the Lord” will be so great that there will be “No brightness in it.” While another verse says his “glorious appearing” is our “blessed hope.”
Zechariah 14:4, “And his (the LORD’S) feet shall stand in that day (day of the LORD) upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.” Compare with,
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven” --- Verse 17, “Then we --- shall be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”
You can draw your own conclusions from the above.
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