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I was almost ready to press the agree button until I noticed the part about the day of the Lord meaning the entire Gospel age, that you keep insisting is fact. If you are correct about that, I'm simply not seeing it no matter how many different ways you might be trying to explain it.
The Gospel age is the Day of the Lord because the prophets of Old prophesied about the Messiah to come. Most agree Daniel's prophesy is of the Messiah who would come. And the timing of Daniel's prophesy is fulfilled with the advent of Christ. With Christ's coming and through the anointing by the Holy Spirit His earthly ministry began, that is the beginning of His Day, i.e. the Day of the Lord. The Day of the Lord did not end when Christ ascended to heaven. Pentecost proves the Day of the Lord in the last days had really only just begun, but now without Christ's physical presence. From Pentecost the Day of the Lord would be fulfilled through the power of the Holy Spirit of Christ.
Daniel 9:25-27 (KJV) Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Daniel 8:23-26 (KJV) And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand. And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.
Isaiah 9:6-7 (KJV) For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
Acts 3:14-15 (KJV) But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
Malachi 4:5-6 (KJV) Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: 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.
Matthew 11:13-14 (KJV) For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
The Lord's Day is foretold as the time when John-the-Baptist would come in the Spirit of Elijah before the coming of the Day of the Lord. This passage alone connects the New Covenant Gospel age to the Day of the Lord.
Zephaniah 2:3 (KJV) Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.
Obadiah 15 (KJV) For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
Obadiah 17 (KJV) But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
The prophesies of Old were sent by God to warn Israel about the wrath of God that was coming. So their prophesies focus is on the final Day of the Lord, the day of destruction from the Almighty, when Christ will return not as Savior, but as Judge. But there are glimpses strewn within the language of God's wrath, promises from God that there is always deliverance for those of faith, those whom God deems as holiness unto Him. Because the final Day of the Lord when Christ returns again with wrath will not come before His mercy and grace is extended to all men. The first Day/age/era/time of the Lord is for building His Kingdom, the last day of this day/age/era/time of the Lord will also be the Day (one) of the Lord when He comes in judgment and wrath. There won't need to be more time when the Day of the Lord comes AGAIN, because time for building the Kingdom through the Gospel and Spirit will be finished.
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