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(2) YOM L'JEHOVAH.--A DAY FOR, OR KNOWN TO, THE LORD.
"For the day of the Lord of Hosts shall be upon every one that is proud . . . . . the Lord
alone shall be exalted in that day" (Isa. 2: 12-17).
"For the day is near, even the day of the Lord is near, a cloudy day: it shall be the
time of the heathen" (Ezek. 30: 3).
"Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of
thee" (Zech. 14: 1).
"It shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night" (Zech. 14: 7).
(3) HE HEMERO KURIOU.--THE DAY OF (THE) LORD.
"For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the
night" (I Thess. 5: 2).
"That ye be not soon shaken in mind . . . . . as that the day of the Lord is at hand"
(II Thess. 2: 2, R.V.).
"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night: in the which the heavens
shall pass away . . . . ." (II Pet. 3: 10).
(4) HE KURIAKE HEMERA.--THE LORD'S DAY.
"I was in the spirit in the Lord's day" (Rev. 1: 10).
To appreciate fully the meaning of that prophetic period entitled "The day of the
Lord", every one of these references must be duly considered together with their context,
and when the whole is brought to bear upon the last prophecy concerning it, namely, the
book of the Revelation, it will be seen that both the first occurrence (Isa. 13: 6), and the
last (Rev. 1: 10), focus attention upon the character and the fall of Babylon. A very small
remnant prevented the overthrow of Israel being like that of Sodom and Gomorrah
(Isa. 1: 9), but no remnant is found in Babylon.
"And Babylon, the glory of the kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees excellency, shall
be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah" (Isa. 13: 19).
The plea of Abraham, that if only ten righteous were found in Sodom, it would be
spared (Gen. 18: 32) comes to mind, and also the "tenth" of Isa. 6: 13 which, as the
remnant, saved Israel from utter destruction.
Before the "proverb" is taken up against the King of Babylon (Isa. 14: 4), a small
section is devoted to the restoration of Israel (Isa. 14: 1-3). In the space of these three
verses is compressed a great amount of prophetic truth.
"The Lord will have mercy on Jacob."--In this simple statement we have the germ
of Hosea 1: and 2:, where a child is named Lo-ruhamah--"not having obtained mercy",
which sign is finally cancelled in Hosea 2: 23: "I will have mercy upon her that had not
obtained mercy." The dispensational section of Romans, namely, chapters 9:-11: bases
its teaching, concerning the remnant and the nations, upon this theme of "mercy"
(Rom. 9: 15, 16, 18; 11: 30, 31, 32).