Bible Readings — Bible Questions Answered

The Day of the Lord

The Description

What is the character of “the day of the Lord”? BR-ASI9 237.1

“As a destruction from the Almighty.” Joel 1:15. BR-ASI9 237.2

“A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness.” Joel 2:2. BR-ASI9 237.3

“For the day of the Lord is great and very terrible.” Joel 2:11. BR-ASI9 237.4

“The great and the terrible day of the Lord.” Joel 2:31. BR-ASI9 237.5

“That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, . . . a day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.” Zephaniah 1:15, 16. (See also Jeremiah 30:7; Isaiah 13:6-13.) BR-ASI9 237.6