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The day of the LORD that is coming would not be the hoped for day, when the LORD would come to judge Israel's enemies (Isaiah 13:6, 9). On the contrary, the LORD would come to judge His covenant people for their wrongdoings. So, Amos told them that the day of the LORD would be darkness and not light.
May 8, 2017 · The Day of the Lord is the day when God makes everything right and just. For those who are on the wrong side of it, there will be no escape, because the wrath of God is not haphazard or directionless. It is not, karma, or the rebalancing of the universe by blind fate.
the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light; it will bring on affliction, calamities, miseries, and distress, which are often in Scripture expressed by "darkness", and not prosperity and happiness, which are sometimes signified by "light"; see Isaiah 5:30; and even the day of the coming of Christ were to the unbelieving Jews darkness, and not light; they were blinded in it, and given up to ...
Jun 18, 2006 · For example, later in this same prophecy Amos will look beyond the immediately impending judgment of Israel that he has been predicting – her destruction at the hand of Assyria in 721 B.C., a destruction he refers to here as the day of the Lord – and see another day of the Lord, a final day of the Lord, a day of universal judgment and a day ...
Amos 5:18. Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord Either the day of Christ's coming in the flesh, as Cocceius interprets it; and which was desired by the people of Israel, not on account of spiritual and eternal salvation, but that they might be delivered by him from outward troubles and enemies, and enjoy temporal felicity; they had a notion of him as a temporal Saviour and Redeemer, in ...
5 days ago · 1. (16-20) Wailing and woe in the day of the LORD. Therefore the LORD God of hosts, the Lord, says this: “There shall be wailing in all streets, And they shall say in all the highways, ‘Alas! Alas!’ They shall call the farmer to mourning, And skillful lamenters to wailing. In all vineyards there shall be wailing, For I will pass through ...
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For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted—it will be humbled— Zechariah 14:1 Behold, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence. Isaiah 34:8 For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. 1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
