Greetings,
One of my word/phrase studies that I have done in my 50 times reading through the Bible is the word - 'Day' and the phrase, 'in that day'. In the 1st chapter of Zephaniah we find this used multiple times as God's day of judgment, in the phrase, 'the day of the Lord'. Particularly found in verses 14 - 16 where 'Day is mentioned 6 times in various respects of that day.
Just Chapter 1
v. 1 - in the days of Josiah
v. 7 - for the day of the Lord is at hand;
v. 8 - in the day of the Lord's sacrifice
v. 10 - in that day
v. 14 - The great day of the Lord is near. . . even the voice of the day of the Lord
v. 15 - That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress; a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness.
v. 16 - A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities
v. 18 - in the day of the Lord's wrath;
Now for the most part the church and individual Christians are looking forward to the day of the Lord. And they define that day of the Lord, as the day that the Lord returns and we, as the church are carried home to be with the Lord forevermore. But there is another day of the Lord before that day, and it is the day that is often unknown to the church. And if they do know of this day, it seems that they take no heed to this day. This is the day of the Lord's wrath and anger. It is a day of destruction and desolation. A day of wrath and great sorrow.
Now this day of destruction comes, for the people have grossly sinned against the Lord. They have forsaken and forgotten the Lord; evil has abounded; and great sin lies in much of the majority of the population. Now the cause behind such evil flourishing that would cause this day to come, is found in God's Own people, the church. The church lost its way; the church became more carnal than spiritual; more fleshly than holy; and more self, than the Savior. And out of the churches failure, Satan and hell takes full advantage of it. Thus provoking God to response.
Now God's response has been grace and mercy; God's response has been sending His prophets; and God's response has been sending remedial judgements to warn the people and call them to repent before such a day of the Lord is issued. And when, after series of remedial judgements and warnings come from God's prophets and the people refuse to obey. Then God initiates that day of wrath. It is a day unlike any other day. A day that seems to come suddenly; yet, it has been progressing and swelling for decades. It is a day of unforeseen circumstances that annihilates and destroys lives at a rapid pace. It is day that brings the remnant to reality that they knew this was coming, but never believed that it would come - unbelief. They had hears to hear, but they would not hear; they had eyes to see, but they refused to look.
all the while sin abounded; evil flourished; hell prevailed and God's people sank, they knew the means to stop this course of God's response. But they would not. thus it came, and 10,000's of thousands were damned to hell; the way of life that we was so accustomed to was destroyed; and that which had been of our forefathers now became the new way of survival. Freedoms were gone; opportunities expelled and life was now simply just existence. Why? Because we forsook the ways of the Lord and did not pay attention to Scripture that warned and has been consistent in demonstrating that THE DAY OF THE LORD COMES TO THOSE THAT FORGET AND FORSAKE HIM.
Remedial judgements are a pre-cursor to this day. A foretelling of that which shall be in their means. These means being what I have shared for a decade with you of the judgements on our land. Severe and more severe cases of death, destruction and desolation. The intensity of these remedial judgements are increased in application and more impact upon populated areas.
For example: the recent earthquakes in CA; now I have studied earthquakes for over a decade. I have recorded the 7; 8 and 9 earthquakes and measured location and frequency. In a years time, the 8 or greater earthquake is average of 1 per year; the 7.0 or greater is about once a month; Now the difference is that these earthquakes happen all the time. However, when they hit unpopulated areas no one cares; but hit a residential area and many are alarmed. But the day of the Lord will bring it very close to heart; and it will hit a major populated area and leave an impact of much death and sorrow.
Natural Disasters as remedial judgements are a historic proportions for our nation. We went through a season from the early 2000's of drought; but now we are facing life threatening food and living conditions from flooding. Whole swaths of area are now being impacted; rather than the isolated cities or regions. Whole seasons of farming, and crops are impacted now upon food supplies for multiple nations. The record flooding along coasts from ice melt is now impacting major cities along east coast. Alaska is at record heat and drought and wildfires; melting ice at unparalleled rate.
Do you see? Do you understand? The day of the Lord is nearer than what any would think. Why? Because we have legalized abominations; we have accepted and received sin of the worst sort of children and of the innocent to satisfy self. Entertainment, money and ease are our way of life. All the while God's way and God's service is reduced and fragments and literally refused by this society. No prayer meetings among 3/4 of the church; little bible read and studied and memorized by those who say they are His'. Few witnessing of eternity to the damned and lost. Less time during a day and week given to God and more and more time for self and world increased.
REMEDY - seek the Lord; call upon His Name; confess and repent of our sins; and serve Him wholeheartedly in holiness;
the set times of the concert of prayer are designed and set forth to be a means of staying God's hand of wrath. Failure to respond hastens the day upon us. right response finds God's grace and mercy for His longsuffering.
It is beyond me to why church leaders desire to continue in the same format of service that has brought us to our demise. all the while acknowledging that we ought to and need to pray more, they refuse to employ the initiatives to do so. Thus, they are the very ones who ushers the 'Day of the Lord' upon us.
Several examples in Scripture leaves us with that pleading before the day of the Lord hit, 'who knows if He will turn and repent and leave a blessing behind Him'. But we must seek for it, while there is still time.
The hour is late - the need is great - pray so as to prevail. . .
Prayer Targets:
--Democratic Congo Ebola - over 1500 deaths; it seems it has leveled off;
--Venezuela Crisis - dictator continues to spiral nation down; living conditions are horrendous;
--North Korea - the whole whiile that talks are not resumed, the church remains persecuted and lives in jeopardy; light to penetrate darkness;
--China - crackdown on Christianity persist;
--Iran - war is on horizon; crisis involving British tanker; soldiers lives at stake, pray for spiritual awakening now before war; and citizens affected there without the Gospel;
--EPIDEMICS - Drugs; Natural Disasters; murder-suicides/ & suicides alarming rates; cancer; LGBT;
--Several more arrested this week as pastors and/or youth pastors as this continues to be discovered of the sexual sins of the ministry for our generation;
Updates:
--bible reading - finished Old Testament; a month left in reading this time through;
--The Activity of God - Psalms; slow going, this will take a few months to work through;
--A Word - Isaiah 59 - while on vacation trying to finish up earlier verses started; and complete the beginning of all 21 verses in this chapter; Also contains the theme verse of Isaiah 59:19 for Broken Before the Throne;
--Concert of Prayer has received no feedback at all from any SBC leader; we plan on continuing each first of the month with corporate prayer and day of fast on first Tuesday of each month;
--sermons - are live streamed on my facebook page; saved and then uploaded to to my youtube page;
Until,
Dan
Started: July 11, 2019
Continued: 7/12;
Finished:
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