Davy
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Shalom, Davy.
This may be difficult for you to understand or accept, but that 1,000 years ARE the Day of the Lord! Yeeshuwa` the Messiah is called "the Sun of righteousness."
Malachi 4:1-6 (KJV)
1 "For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up," saith the LORD of hosts, "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. 3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do [this]," saith the LORD of hosts.
4 "Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, [with] the statutes and judgments. 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse."
When the Sun of righteousness shall arise, there shall be no night in His presence! For a THOUSAND YEARS, there will be no night! He will reign in God's GLORY upon the Throne of His GLORY! He will not need to sleep, and He will be judging the earth for that thousand years. He gives them EVERY CHANCE imaginable to change their attitudes and come humbly to Him.
2 Peter 3:3-10 (KJV)
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying,
"Where is the promise of his coming (in wrath)? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as [they were] from the beginning of the creation!"
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens (1st heavens) were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water (the Flood), perished:
7 But the heavens (2nd heavens) and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire (of Revelation 20:7-9) against (just prior to) the day of judgment and perdition (sentencing) of ungodly men. 8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that ONE DAY [IS] WITH THE LORD AS A THOUSAND YEARS, AND A THOUSAND YEARS AS ONE DAY. 9 The Lord is not slack (lazy) concerning his promise (of His coming in wrath), as some men count slackness (laziness); but is LONGSUFFERING (PATIENT) to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
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.
This is still the SAME "DAY OF THE LORD!" However, if they continue to refuse, the wrath of that Day (at the end of the Day) will overtake them! This is because when the last person who will change has come to Him for that change, He will have no other choice but to lower the boom on all the rest.
Oh, I've heard some apply that "day of the Lord" term to the whole 1,000 years period. That usually comes from how some try to divide this present world time from creation to the future new heavens and new earth time by 7 days with each day representing a 1,000 years. Thus the 7th day represents Christ's future 1,000 years reign, they say.
But you are not correct with applying the "day of the Lord" term how Lord Jesus and His Apostles applied it.
In Rev.16:15, Lord Jesus warned the Church that He comes "as a thief". That "as a thief" metaphor is what Jesus used for the day of His future coming when He gave the signs of the end in His Olivet discourse of Matt.24 and Mark 13. Thus you are not applying that according to the written Scripture meaning.
In 1 Thess.5, Apostle Paul warns about the "sudden destruction" on that "day of the Lord" upon the deceived when they begin to say, "Peace and safety', which is a marker for the very end of this world when the coming Antichrist will end all wars and deceive the world by offering peace and safety. That happens before... Christ's future return, not after.