Posted on 11/16/2008 12:15:27 PM PST by TaraP
Absolutely the most important key to understanding prophecy!
Isa 41:22 "Let them bring [them] forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they [be], that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come."
"The day nor the hour" to be more accurate, but you're on the right track with the date setting question.
You can still be in the ball park with your view only I think you might want to review Mat. 24:29 and Mark 13:24. This concerns the tribulation being {before} the sun being darkened and the moon not giving light. Now read Joel 2:31 and Acts 2:20. This concerns the day of the Lord being {after} the sun being darkened and the moon not giving light. This shows that the tribulation and the day of the Lord as 2 separate events. The tribulation is not the wrath of God as Acts 14:22 states “Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.” The day of the Lord is indeed the wrath of God as stated in Isaiah 13:9,”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.” I found this nugget while doing a word search on these 2 topics in the King James version as the other versions do not use tribulation and day of the Lord as extensively. Now using this info you could enter into the tribulation period as a believer and not violate scripture that keeps you from the wrath.
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