Gleanings in First Thessalonians
Chapter 5
1Thess 5:2b
… the day of the Lord …
(as noted before I truncated verse 2, and denoted it with an “b”, just dealing with the middle part of that verse today.)
Part 2 of DOTL study
Joel 2:30-32
And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
Wonders in heavens and earth, blood, fire, pillars of smoke, sun turned to darkness, moon turned to blood before the DOTL comes.
Amos 5:18-20
Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
The DOTL is darkness, not light, and with calamity.
Obad 1:15
For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
The DOTL will be upon the heathen and they will be repaid for what they have done to Israel.
Zep 1:7-18
Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.
And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD'S sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.
In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.
Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.
And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.
Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
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,
A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
The DOTL is when the LORD is present i.e there. A day of punishment, noisy, people getting cut off, mighty men crying, a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, wasteness, desolation, darkness, gloominess, clouds, thick darkness, a day of the LORD’s wrath.
Zec 14:1-9
Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
The DOTL will have all nations to battle at Jerusalem, city taken, the LORD fights, the LORD stands on the Mount of Olives and an earthquake, saints escaping from Jerusalem, strange illuminations, living waters flowing out of Jerusalem, and the LORD shall be king over all the earth.
Mal 4:5
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
Elijah the prophet will be sent before the DOTL.
Act 2:16-21
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
DOTL a restating of Joel by Peter at Pentecost: pouring out of the Spirit, visions, dreams, prophesying, signs in heaven and earth, sun turned to darkness and moon to blood before the DOTL.
1Thess 5:2
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
The DOTL comes as a thief in the night.
2Pet 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
The DOTL comes as a thief in the night, heavens will pass away with a great noise, elements burnt up, earth and all the works therein burnt up.
So in summative conclusion:
Before the DOTL and when at hand, the prophet Elijah will come, the land will be in famine and starvation, there will be wonders in heaven and on earth, cosmic events, sun darkened, moon blood.
The DOTL comes as a thief in the night. And is great, and comes with a sword.
The DOTL is a day of wrath, of the fierce anger of the Lord, a dark, cloudy, gloomy, dreadful terrible day with cosmic events, heavens shaking, and the earth shaking, fires, earthquakes, pestilence, calamity, and punishment, the unfaithful being cut off.
The DOTL is a day of battle, a day with a lot of dead bodies, a persecution of Israel, a payback to the heathen that persecute Israel, a day when armies gather around Jerusalem, a saving of the Jewish remnant.
The DOTL is when the Lord is King over the whole earth, and restores Israel, and is at rest dwelling in Zion.
Most importantly, the DOTL is characterized by the LORD being present, when the Lord alone will be exalted, and everything high and lofty and proud will be brought down.
Grace and Peace James
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