The expression 'the day of the Lord' (Heb. Yom Jehovah) occurs as

follows: Isaiah 13:6,9; Ezekiel 13:5; Joel 1:15; 2:1,11; 3:14; Amos 5:18

(twice), 20; Obadiah 15; Zephaniah 1:7,14 (twice); Malachi 4:5.

We have given the English chapter and verse, but the student should be

aware that in some passages the enumeration is different in the Hebrew.  In

four places the Hebrew differs from the above, having the preposition 'L'

(Hebrew name of letter lamed), meaning 'for' or 'to' -- 'a day for the Lord',

or 'a day (known) to the Lord', Isaiah 2:12; Ezekiel 30:3; Zechariah 14:1 and

7.  There are other places where the day of the Lord is mentioned, but these

have some qualifying word as 'vengeance' or 'wrath', and so while

illustrative and of importance, are not listed here.  In the New Testament we

meet the expression but four times:

He hemera kuriou -- 1 Thessalonians 5:2; 2 Peter 3:10.

He hemera tou kuriou -- 2 Thessalonians 2:2 (Revised Text).

Te kuriake hemera -- Revelation 1:10.

Let us gather from these Scriptures what this 'Day of the Lord' will be

like, for this will materially influence our conception of what the

'Millennium' itself will be like, for most agree that the Millennium is in

'the day of the Lord'.  If the Millennium be a kingdom of universal peace, it

is strange to note that we open our quotations with the words 'Howl Ye'!

'Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a

destruction from the Almighty.

'Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:

'And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of

them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be

amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

'Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce

anger, to lay the land desolate: and He shall destroy the sinners

thereof out of it.

'For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give

their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon

shall not cause her light to shine.

'And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their

iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and

will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

'And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees'

excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

'It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from

generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there;

neither shall the shepherds make their fold there' (Isa. 13:6-11 and

This comes under the heading 'The burden of Babylon' (Isa. 13:1) and as

Babylon figures largely in the Book of the Revelation, the description of the

day of the Lord, as 'a destruction from the Almighty' must be kept in mind.