EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/21/2026
7:57 PM
My
Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “The
Assurance of Divine Judgment”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: 2
Peter 3:10
Message of the verse: “But
the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away
with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth
and its works will be burned up.”
I mentioned in last evening's
Spiritual Diary the importance of this verse, 2 Peter 3:10, and I also
mentioned that there are a lot of verses to look up and post onto these
Spiritual Diaries, and although I could not post all them last evening because
they were actually a couple of chapters, I did post many of the verses, and so
because of that I did not get too far in looking at the comments from John
MacArthur’s commentary. This verse
actually is fulfilled after the Millennial Kingdom is over as at that time the
earth and all of the universe will be destroyed, destroyed by fire and we look
at how I believe that will happen as we continue looking at the components of
this verse.
MacArthur writes “The New Testament
writers also foresaw that day as an awesome and fearful event (2 Thess. 2:2; cf.
Matt. 24:29-31.”
(2 Thess. 2:2; cf. Matt. 24:29-31
“2 and what you have heard from me in the
presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach
others also.”
29 "Immediately after the tribulation of
those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and
the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
30 Then will appear in heaven the sign
of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they
will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great
glory. 31 And he will send out his
angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four
winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”
“According
to the book of Revelation, it will transpire in two stages; during the
tribulation (Rev. 6:17) and after the millennium (Rev. 20:7-10).” I did not realize that this would be in two
stages, and am not really sure that is right, but I will quote these verses
now.
(Rev. 6:17)
“17 for the great day of their wrath has come,
and who can stand?"
(Rev. 20:7-10)
“7 And when the thousand years are ended, Satan
will be released from his prison 8 and
will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth,
Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the
sea. 9 And they marched up over the
broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved
city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them, 10 and the devil who had deceived them was
thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet
were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.”
“A deeper look into the phrase the
day of the Lord reveals nineteen indisputable Old Testament references and
four in the New Testament. The Old
Testament prophets used the expression to describe both near historical
judgments (Isa. 13:6-22; Ezek. 30:2-19; Joel 1:15; Amos 5:18-20; Zeph. 1:14-18;).”
(Isa. 13:6-22; Ezek. 30:2-19; Joel
1:15; Amos 5:18-20; Zeph. 1:14-18;)
6
¶ Wail, for the day of the LORD is near;
as destruction from the Almighty it will come! 7 Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every
human heart will melt. 8 They will be
dismayed: pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman
in labor. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD comes,
cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land a desolation and to
destroy its sinners from it. 10 For the
stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the
sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light. 11 I will punish the world for its evil, and the
wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and
lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless. 12
I will make people more rare than fine gold, and mankind than the gold
of Ophir. 13 Therefore I will make the heavens
tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place, at the wrath of the
LORD of hosts in the day of his fierce anger. 14 And like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep with
none to gather them, each will turn to his own people, and each will flee to
his own land. 15 Whoever is found will
be thrust through, and whoever is caught will fall by the sword. 16 Their infants will be dashed in pieces before
their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished. 17 Behold, I am stirring up the Medes against them,
who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold. 18 Their bows will slaughter the young men; they
will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not pity children. 19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the
splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God
overthrew them. 20 It will never be
inhabited or lived in for all generations; no Arab will pitch his tent there;
no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there. 21 But wild animals will lie down there, and
their houses will be full of howling creatures; there ostriches will dwell, and
there wild goats will dance. 22 Hyenas
will cry in its towers, and jackals in the pleasant palaces; its time is close
at hand and its days will not be prolonged.”
“2 "Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus
says the Lord GOD: "Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’ 3 For the day is near, the day of the LORD is
near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations. 4 A sword shall come upon Egypt, and anguish
shall be in Cush, when the slain fall in Egypt, and her wealth is carried away,
and her foundations are torn down. 5
Cush, and Put, and Lud, and all Arabia, and Libya, and the people of the
land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword. 6 "Thus says the LORD: Those who support
Egypt shall fall, and her proud might shall come down; from Migdol to Syene
they shall fall within her by the sword, declares the Lord GOD. 7 And they shall be desolated in the midst of
desolated countries, and their cities shall be in the midst of cities that are
laid waste. 8 Then they will know that I
am the LORD, when I have set fire to Egypt, and all her helpers are broken.
9 "On that day messengers shall go
out from me in ships to terrify the unsuspecting people of Cush, and anguish
shall come upon them on the day of Egypt’s doom; for, behold, it comes! 10 "Thus says the Lord GOD: "I will
put an end to the wealth of Egypt, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon. 11 He and his people with him,
the most ruthless of nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land, and they
shall draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain. 12 And I will dry up the Nile and will sell the
land into the hand of evildoers; I will bring desolation upon the land and
everything in it, by the hand of foreigners; I am the LORD; I have spoken.
13 "Thus says the Lord GOD: "I
will destroy the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis; there shall no
longer be a prince from the land of Egypt; so I will put fear in the land of
Egypt. 14 I will make Pathros a
desolation and will set fire to Zoan and will execute judgments on Thebes.
15 And I will pour out my wrath on
Pelusium, the stronghold of Egypt, and cut off the multitude of Thebes. 16 And I will set fire to Egypt; Pelusium shall
be in great agony; Thebes shall be breached, and Memphis shall face enemies by
day. 17 The young men of On and of
Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword, and the women shall go into captivity.
18 At Tehaphnehes the day shall be dark,
when I break there the yoke bars of Egypt, and her proud might shall come to an
end in her; she shall be covered by a cloud, and her daughters shall go into
captivity. 19 Thus I will execute
judgments on Egypt. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’’
“15 Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is
near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.”“18 Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD!
Why would you have the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light, 19 as if a
man fled from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his
hand against the wall, and a serpent bit him. 20 Is not the day of the LORD darkness, and not
light, and gloom with no brightness in it?”
“14
¶ The great day of the LORD is near,
near and hastening fast; the sound of the day of the LORD is bitter; the mighty
man cries aloud there. 15 A day of wrath
is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a
day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness, 16 a day of trumpet blast and battle cry against
the fortified cities and against the lofty battlements. 17 I will bring distress on mankind, so that
they shall walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD;
their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung. 18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be
able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of the LORD. In the fire of his
jealousy, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full and sudden end he will
make of all the inhabitants of the earth.”
I actually had to stop in the middle of a sentence as
there were even more verses to look at in that sentence, which, Lord willing I
will quote them tomorrow. What we are
looking at in this verse is tomorrow’s headlines today, as all of this will
happen in the future, so it is good to understand this now.
1/21/2026
8:25 PM
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