B. God’s Judgment on the World

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A parallel with the prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah. The term “Day of the Lord” clearly refers to the Second Coming of Christ.

The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

Chapter 2

¹⁰ Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty. ¹¹ The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day. ¹² For there will be a day of the LORD of Armies for all that is proud and arrogant, and for all that is lifted up, and it shall be brought low— ¹³ for all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, for all the oaks of Bashan, ¹⁴ for all the high mountains, for all the hills that are lifted up, ¹⁵ for every lofty tower, for every fortified wall, ¹⁶ for all the ships of Tarshish, and for all pleasant imagery. ¹⁷ The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. ¹⁸ The idols shall utterly pass away. ¹⁹ Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty , when he arises to shake the earth mightily. ²⁰ In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats, ²¹ to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily. ²² Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah

Chapter 10

¹⁰ But the LORD is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation. ¹¹ “ You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’ ” … ¹⁵ They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish.