At this point I think I will change to a series of end times topics. One of the major related topics is the subject of the “day of the Lord” or the pouring out of God’s wrath on planet earth. Until recently these terms have been synonymous in my thinking to the 70th week of Daniel, the 7-year period more popularly known as the tribulation. Continued study and research have convinced me that though these designated times run pretty much concurrent with one another, they are actually specific to different groups of people for different reasons.
We learned in Daniel that the purpose of the 70th week is to purge Israel and produce a believing remnant through whom God’s covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will be completely fulfilled. It will also usher in the kingdom that will fulfill God’s covenant with David to establish his throne forever.
Gen. 17:7-8 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
2Sam. 7:16-17 And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever. According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
The “day of the Lord,” also called the “day of His wrath,” (or other similar phrasing) is directed toward:
• The ungodly and unrighteous
Rom. 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness…
• The children of disobedience
Eph. 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
• Those that worship the beast and his image and receive his mark
Rev. 14:9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
Rev. 14:10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and
in the presence of the Lamb:
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