Study Chapter · XIV

"The Day of the Lord"

One Day, Many Comings

A motif chain you can trace from Joel to Revelation, and one of the keys to reading prophecy without getting whiplash. Sometimes "the Day of the Lord" means imminent local judgment. Sometimes it means a near-future national catastrophe. Sometimes it means the eschatological end.

A motif chain you can trace from Joel to Revelation, and one of the keys to reading prophecy without getting whiplash. Sometimes "the Day of the Lord" means imminent local judgment. Sometimes it means a near-future national catastrophe. Sometimes it means the eschatological end. And sometimes — this is the key — all three at once.