April 9, 2009. I was visiting a home-church, grieved at the apostasy, discord, and worldliness I was seeing in the “institutional church”, seeking God like never before for understanding of what had happened within the church and desiring wisdom in how to be in His will when the church itself seemed so messed up. A lady whom I have never met, homeless and a guest of the person I came to the meeting with, who had been silent up until then, spoke directly to me after I introduced myself and expressed a little about my desire to be in God’s will but also to understand the things I was seeing in the church. Everything she said to me was directly from scripture. I don’t put any stock in “words of knowledge and revelation” from professing Christians unless it is from the Word. She started out by asking me if I was familiar with the book of Habakkuk. She went on to quote the Habakkuk passage below. She also spoke passages from Job. I was left without a doubt, that the Holy Spirit had moved this lady to say what she said, because of the specific questions in my heart, and the way the words directly addressed them. I see that particular moment, along with a few others, as the point in time God “commissioned me” for the ministry of this blog. I have had several specific times through out my walk on this pilgrim journey through life, in which I knew the Lord was very near and clearly intervening in my immediate circumstances. When it happens, you know it. There is no room for doubt. I guess that is why, despite detractors, despite apathy on the part of many professing Christians, despite the mockers and doubters, I am so fully and utterly convinced of the appropriateness the urgency that keeps me coming back and posting here. Each and every time that I have considered giving this up, I have heard from someone or several someone’s, faithful readers who tell me how much this site means to them, keeps them encouraged, and helps them understand what is happening in our world. I am no Bible scholar. I am a former R.N. who was forced to leave that career due to chronic medical conditions that prevent me from sustaining that sort of work. Early in the first weeks and months of this blog, I wrote about all of that, and you can read about it in the various tabs across the top of my homepage. The Lord has used those things to grow my faith, and prepare me to use the gifts He placed in me. When life seems dark, when things don’t make sense, trust His heart. He has a purpose and plan in all things. We are at the end of the age of Grace. The Day of the Lord will soon commence. It is a “Great and Terrible Day” and people need to know it! The article below from the Midnight Call is a thorough piece to explain what that Day is going to be like. You don’t want to be here for it, nor should you wish that on anyone else. This is why I do what I do here. —S.T. Lloyd
“I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie; though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry” (Habakkuk 2:1-3).
The Day of the Lord
Written by Norbert Lieth
When we begin to doubt the return of our Lord Jesus at the end of days, we may remind ourselves of this truth and comfort ourselves with it. He will surely come.
When Jesus Christ began to appear publicly in Israel, He read in the synagogue of Nazareth the verses Isaiah 61:1-2. In these verses, the Old Testament prophet speaks of the “acceptable year of the Lord” and the “day of vengeance of our God.” It is noteworthy that the Lord only quoted the first part about “the acceptable year of the Lord,” but left out the second part about the “day of vengeance.” Why did He do this?When the Son of God came to this earth for the first time, the “acceptable year of the Lord,” namely the “day of salvation,” had already begun, but not the “day of vengeance of our God.” This day does not occur in the age of grace, but comes only after the conclusion of the day of salvation; when the age of grace is over, together with the apocalyptic events which stand directly in connection with the second coming of the Lord to this earth. This is the “day of the Lord.”
A day of wrath
The apostle Paul writes of this day of the Lord, i.e. vengeance, “For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night” (1 Thessalonians 5:2). “That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand” (2 Thessalonians 2:2).
The “day of the Lord” describes the time of judgment on earth predicted in the Old Testament (Zephaniah 1; Isaiah 13:6-13; Joel 3:14; Amos 5:18; among others). This day is also referred to as “the day of wrath,” “the day of darkness,” “the day of visitation” (1 Peter 2:12), “the day of vengeance,” “the day” (2 Peter 1:19) or “the day of judgment” (2 Peter 2:9; 3:7).
On “the day of man,” God lets man have his own way, more or less. He attempts to set up his own kingdom, to seat himself upon the throne; he mocks and blasphemes. On account of the “day of salvation,” God is silent. But on the “day of the Lord,” God will intervene publicly in the events; He will work directly. He will no longer be silent but roar when the day of judgment comes, that day in which Jesus Christ returns visibly and begins His theocratic reign on earth. Until then the situation on earth is as Habakkuk expressed it thousands of years ago, “Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity; wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?” (Habakkuk 1:13).
But the tables will be turned. The “day of man” will come to an end, and the “day of the Lord” will begin which man himself will describe as follows, “For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?”(Revelation 6:17).
More: https://midnightcall.com/articles/messages/item/3033-the-day-of-the-lord#.U9vfeJWBH4h
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