These are just a few of the many scriptures referring to the Day of The Lord.
Zechariah 14 refers to the battle of Armageddon which comes at the end of the [7 years] Tribulation. It is referred to as The Day of The Lord in many places in the bible.
Joel 3:2 “I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will put them on trial for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel, because they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land
Also see the parable of the wheat and tares Matthew 13:30
[God first gathers the evil to be burned, but does not destroy them at that moment. He then gathers the righteous, (when we are caught up by the messengers/angels of God) with our master in the air and then descend to the earth. i.e ''Land''].
*Revelation 16v14-16 For they are breaths of demons performing signs, which spread out over the kings of the whole world, to collect them unto the battle of the great Day of God, 355*
*355 THE SOVEREIGN OVER ALL.
A Warning from Jesus to the Assemblies
Rev 16 Verse 15 (“Look! I am coming like a thief.356 Blessed is the one watching357 and guarding his garments358 so that he should not walk naked and his shame be seen.”359) 16 And He360 assembled them into the place called in Hebrew, “Armageddon.”361
*355 2 Pet. 3:10-12
*356 These words of Jesus are one final warning to His own, that His coming is now imminent (cf. Matt. 24:43-44; 1 Thess. 5:2; 2 Pet. 3:10). It is not imminent until the armies begin to gather for the battle of Armageddon after the first six bowl judgments.
*357 Mark 13:32-37; Luke 21:36
*358 Guarding one’s garments means to keep from soiling them with sin, (Rev. 3:4; Rev. 7:14).
*359 Here Jesus reminds the reader of His warning to Laodicea, (Rev. 3:18).
*360 While the unclean breaths deceive the kings of the land to come with their armies to Jerusalem, it is the Son who spoke the words in vs. 15 who ultimately gathers them for judgment and destruction (Joel 3:9-18 & Zech. 14:2 Then the Lord will appear over them;
his arrow will flash like lightning.
The Sovereign Lord will sound the trumpet;
he will march in the storms of the south,)
*361 Literally, “Mountain of Megiddo.” Megiddo is a very large plain about 50 miles north of Jerusalem. It is the place where the armies of the nations will assemble prior to their attack on Jerusalem. It is not the location of the final battle itself, which will be around Jerusalem (Zech. 14:1-9). Megiddo is overlooked from the south-east by Mt. Carmel, which was Elijah’s place of hiding and will be the primary place of refuge for Christians who flee from Judea (Micah 7:14-15; Matt. 24:15-21). These faithful believers will be able to watch the gathering of the armies from their vantage point in the caves of Carmel. This is probably why the text refers to “Armageddon” (Mountain of Megiddo) rather than merely “Megiddo” which is a valley. This is also why the exhortation to the believers in hiding was placed here in the text as a parenthetical statement. They will literally see the armies assemble as the sign to get ready for Jesus’ imminent arrival.
Malachi 4:1“Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire, ” says the LORD Almighty. “Not a root or a branch will be left to them. But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves. Then you will trample on the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I act,” says the LORD Almighty.
The Tribulation commences at the end of the Second Exile.
The Bible has many analogies between the First Exile [in Babylon] and this Second Exile [the Diaspora]. [Leviticus 26:17-18]
You will be DEFEATED BY YOUR ENEMIES [REFERS TO THE FIRST EXILE]...And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will PUNISH YOU 7 TIMES MORE [refers to the Second Exile] for your sins. The First Exile lasted 70 years, so ''seven times more'' is 490 years. The warning is repeated in verses 21, 24 and 28, which means it occurs 4 times in total. Therefore God will punish the Jews one, two, three and four times, and each time lasts ''seven times more'' than the First Exile, i.e. 490 years. And 4 X 490 is 1960 years.
The 2nd Exile started in 70 AD, add the 1960 years punishment and we arrive at 2030, [however the Jewish New Year [Rosh Hashanah] is offset by a few months from our Roman calendar, so the year is 2029 on Rosh Hashanah, which can occur between September 5 and October 5.
The Tribulation commences when the 2nd Exile ends in 2029, it is the last Week [7 years] of Daniel's 70 Week Prophecy.
Jesus returns in 2036 on Yom Kippur, at the last trumpet on the 120th Jubilee since creation.
Balaam prophesied of a “Star” rising who is the Messiah (Num. 24:16-19).
Rev. 22:16 Jesus referred to Himself as the
“bright and morning star,” which in astronomy is the planet Venus when it appears early in the morning. Peter stated
that the “morning star” would arise on the Day of Christ’s return (1 Pet. 1:19). “The sign of the Son of man in the sky”
(Matt. 24:30), while the sun and moon are dark, very well may involve the planet Venus rising in conjunction with
Regulus (King) in the constellation Leo (Lion). This conjunction at dawn (viewed from Jerusalem) will occur on Yom
Kippur 2036.
The 120 Jubilee's
Genesis 6:3 [NIV]
3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
2 Peter 3v5-8 (LGV)
5 For they are willingly oblivious to this: that the skies continued from antiquity, and the land out from water and by water having been upheld by the announcement*40 of God, 6 through which [announcement] the existing order was destroyed. 7 And the present skies and land, having been set aside by the same announcement,*41 are reserved for fire until the Day of Justice and the destruction of ungodly men.
*40 In Gen. 6:3 God announced to Noah that he was delaying mankind’s judgment for 120 years. This announcement withheld the judgment of the flood for the predetermined time (while Noah prepared the ark), but also brought the judgment at the appointed time 120 years later.
*41 The literal meaning of Peter’s statement is that the very same announcement that God made to Noah (that judgment would come for man in 120 years) not only withheld God’s judgment of the flood until the end of the specified time, but the same statement also indicates the time of the second destruction by fire.
Genesis 6:3 has a dual meaning, predicting the first destruction by flood in 120 solar years, and the second destruction by fire in 120 Jubilee years (6000 years from creation). A Jubilee year occurs every 50th year (Lev. 25).
