SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/3/2016 9:24 AM
My Worship Time Focus: The Coming of the Day of the Lord PT-1
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zechariah 14:1-2
Message of the verses: “1 Behold, a day is coming for the LORD when
the spoil taken from you will be divided among you.” “Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be
divided in the midst of thee (KJV).”
John
MacArthur explains what the Day of the Lord is about as he writes “Well, the
day of the Lord as a term, mark it in your mind, refers to not one day but a
period of time. We use the word ‘day’ in
the same way. We say this is the day of…this
is the day of space travel, or this is the day of existentialism, or this is
the day of alcoholism, or this is the day of marital breakup, or this is the
day of whatever. We use it in that sense
and that’s the way it’s used in this reference.
This is the day of the Lord.
“In other
words, man has had his day, man has had his fling and now it’s God’s time. And the Lord is going to begin to do some
things. And so the day of the Lord is a
period of time beginning with the rapture of the church and extending through
the millennial kingdom. It covers all
kinds of events. It covers the
Tribulation time when the Lord takes back the earth. It covers the conquering of the nations at
Armageddon. It covers the judgment of
the nations. It covers the establishment
of the Kingdom. It covers the reign of
Jesus Christ on earth for a thousand years.
It covers the vanquishing of Satan.
It covers this whole great eschatological time block from the Rapture to
the end of the Kingdom. That whole era
of the end of history is the day of the Lord.
“In other
words, man’s day is ended and the Lord begins to take back His earth…the day of
the Lord. A great period of time when
God sets up His own reign and takes the dominion away from unregenerate man, and
so it is the day of the Lord.”
Now as
MacArthur mentions the day of the Lord is a long time period which will have
several different facets involved in it.
Now there is no mention of the Rapture in the OT, and so as we look and
have been looking at the book of Zechariah and the future events that we see in
it we realize that we are at the end of the tribulation period when God will
soon destroy the nations at the battle of Armageddon and set up His
kingdom. I believe that this battle of
Armageddon can be called the day of the Lord as God will pour out His wrath on
sinful man as most of the world’s armies are ready to do battle against each
other and then when the Lord comes from heaven they turn their guns and rockets
against the Lord who will destroy them with the sword in His mouth as spoken of
in Revelation chapter 19, but as MacArthur describes the day of the Lord is a
prolonged time period that last for about 1007 years from the Rapture to the
end of the Millennial Kingdom.
Now as we
continue to look at verse one we see “when the spoil taken from you will be
divided among you.” Now let us look at
verse two which speaks more about this: “For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle;
and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and
half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people
shall not be cut off from the city.”
Notice the highlighted portion of verse two to see who it is that is
gathering these armies to go up against Jerusalem; it is God Himself. Now we have seen that it is God who gathers
them as first of all God is going to use them as an agency to purge out the
rebels among His people. This will
happen in the battle of Armageddon where many will be slaughtered. Now in our next SD we will look at a second
reason why God gathers them to this place.
11/3/2016 10:07 AM
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