What is the Day of the Lord?
The Day of the Lord is an idiom used throughout Biblical prophecy. In our study of Revelation we find that John the apostle uses this idiom to describe where he is (or, perhaps to better state when he is) as he hears the voice like a trumpet. We read in Revelation 1:10,
“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet”
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Zephaniah, Zechariah, and Malachi all write explicit descriptions of the Lord’s Day. All of these references from the Prophets reiterate the things to come, which we read in Revelation. The Lord’s Day is a well known idiom to all students of prophecy, therefore it would have been familiar to the apostle John, as well. No other day will be like it, as it is a terrible day! We learn from Zephaniah 1:14-16,
“The great day of the Lord is near; It is near and hastens quickly. The noise of the day of the Lord is bitter; There the mighty men shall cry out. 15That day is a day of wrath, A day of trouble and distress, A day of devastation and desolation, A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick darkness, 16A day of trumpet and alarm Against the fortified cities And against the high towers.”
The Day of the Lord is disclosed for us in detail, in the Book of Revelation. It is the timeframe for all that is recorded of what occurs during that day in heaven, on earth, and even under the earth.
