The Kingdom Age

[Diamond72]

How do you understand the term "church age"?

The Church age has many different names. Holy Spirit dispensation, Age of Grace, Time of the Gentiles, Age of the New Covenant, to name a few.

We have 2,000 years of no law, 2000 years under the law, and 2,000 years of Grace. Then there will be the Sabbath or millennium, 1000 years of rest from our works.

Paul tells us in Romans 5:14 "Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come."

Before Christ people looked forward to His sacrifice, after Christ we look back to what He did for us.

 

[Guojing]

The Church age has many different names. Holy Spirit dispensation, Age of Grace, Time of the Gentiles, Age of the New Covenant, to name a few.

We have 2,000 years of no law, 2000 years under the law, and 2,000 years of Grace. Then there will be the Sabbath or millennium, 1000 years of rest from our works.

Paul tells us in Romans 5:14 "Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come."

Before Christ people looked forward to His sacrifice, after Christ we look back to what He did for us.

Since you believed it began at Pentecost, may I ask where you learn dispensationalism from?

 

[OldAbramBrown]

Hi, I get what you're saying (I'm slow myself), I revert to my and others' hunch about your slowing down for the sake of your health, I see why you use what you call "A.I" because of that heart condition. (I know chronic illness myself.)

I've also realised why dispensationism took such a hold. For centuries Holy Spirit gifts and the distinction between works of flesh effort and works of grace, were suppressed. The peril is that it is liable to make its followers excitable for little progress.

 

[OldAbramBrown]

The Church age ... did for us.

That's a good rough scheme, for its purpose.

 

[OldAbramBrown]

The term "Kingdom Age" ...

The kingdom age started at Ascension since when the gifts unvetoed have been exchanged (many parables refer, the feedings of thousands refer). Their suppressing ensued from teachers teaching indistinctly but continued because of bad church bosses.

We always knew there is going to be a millenium (for example) but the time we are told most about is the ongoing present which is when we have to apply Scripture to our conduct towards each other, especially in supplicating, and in respecting the gifts in the others.

 

[OldAbramBrown]

... Isiah 9:6 ...
"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."

The government of Jesus that we know is meant to be the spiritual economy of trading talents with each other to build each other's fortitude and integrity up.

No Holy Spirit = Half a Jesus (think of Solomon and the baby) = no gospel.

Do dispensationists neglect what's meant to be current, just because it became habitual among church bosses generally?

 

[Timtofly]

Depends on who is doing the math. In the beginning, a day could have been 6 hours.

How many hours were in a dinosaur's day? › Ask an Expert (ABC Science)

www.abc.net.au

We are talking about the time of the Kings in Israel, David and Solomon. The quote is from Psalms.

 

[Timtofly]

The Church Age is associated with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost, as described in the New Testament book of Acts.

The church started at Ascension not Pentecost. His return will be noticeably in person somehow. The transition will be noticeable. The figure may not be 7.

The NT started on the Cross when Jesus said about the OT, "It is finished".

The church started with Adam, but was handed to Abel, when Adam was fired. Jesus mentioned:

"From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation."

"That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar."

The Church consists of all the righteous, in God's sight. The righteous are the redeemed because of the Lamb slain, Jesus' obedience on the Cross.

 

[parousia70]

Not 6 hours. More like 12 to 18 hours.

Negative.

From:

What are the watches of the night? - The Bible Made Plain

In the Old Testament times the night was divided into three parts of four hours each, called watches. The first of these watches is mentioned in Lamentations 2:19. Lam 2:19 "Arise, cry out in the night, At the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift

thebiblemadeplain.com

In the Old Testament times the night was divided into three parts of four hours each, called watches.

The first of these watches is mentioned in Lamentations 2:19.

Lam 2:19 “Arise, cry out in the night, At the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift your hands toward Him For the life of your young children, Who faint from hunger at the head of every street.”

The middle watch is mentioned in Judges 7:19.

Jdg 7:19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outpost of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just as they had posted the watch; and they blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.

The last watch, also called the morning watch, is mentioned in Exodus 14:24.

Exo 14:24 Now it came to pass, in the morning watch, that the LORD looked down upon the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud, and He troubled the army of the Egyptians.

By the time of the New Testament, a fourth watch had been added (presumably as a result of Roman influence) so that the night was divided into four watches of three hours each: 6pm – 9pm, 9pm – midnight, midnight – 3am, and 3am – 6am. They seem to have been called the first watch, the second watch, the third watch, and the fourth watch. The third and fourth watches are mentioned directly.

Mat 14:25 Now in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking on the sea.

Mar 6:48 Then He saw them straining at rowing, for the wind was against them. Now about the fourth watch of the night He came to them, walking on the sea, and would have passed them by.

Luk 12:38 And if he should come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

 

[parousia70]

It was the end of animal sacrifices. They thought the sacrifice was all God wanted. Just like today they think that we are forgiven but, we have to be delivered from sin. The grace of God has to do a work in us.

Sometimes the associate pastors understand this better than the ones with a 4 year degree.

You earlier indicated it (70AD) was "His coming and the end of the age" that the disciples asked about.

Did I understand you correctly?

 

[Diamond72]

You earlier indicated it (70AD) was "His coming and the end of the age" that the disciples asked about.

Did I understand you correctly?

I said 29 AD but I do not know how we transition to the new age. I understand that Daniel 9:25 talks about 70 weeks which represents 7 X 70 or 490 years. Could 70 also mean 70 years? If we look at the time of Jesus He was cut off or crucified half way though the 70 years. Then the temple was destroyed in around 70 Ad.

There is a very popular teaching that began in 1996 that there will be a 7 year tribulation period.

I had a friend who died around 70. He was sure that rapture would be any day and for him he was raptured out of here. I think everyone is raptured when they die.

People talk about pre - mid and post rapture. I am sure that is true for them. According to their faith, let it be. Matthew 2:29.

 

[Diamond72]

Where does the Bible say that church and kingdom of God are two different things?

I am talking about the Millennial or the 1,000 year reign of Christ. There are lots of scriptues like Isaiah 2:4 "He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore."

Isaiah 9:7
Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.

Revelation 20:1 "1Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain. 2 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years".

 

[trophy33]

I am talking about the Millennial or the 1,000 year reign of Christ. There are lots of scriptues like Isaiah 2:4 "He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore."

Isaiah 9:7
Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.

Revelation 20:1 "1Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain. 2 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years".

Why do you think that:

1. Isaiah 9:7 and Rev 20:1 belong together?
2. That those texts are literal and not symbolic?
3. That your interpretation is the correct one?

 

[Timtofly]

Negative.

From:

What are the watches of the night? - The Bible Made Plain

In the Old Testament times the night was divided into three parts of four hours each, called watches. The first of these watches is mentioned in Lamentations 2:19. Lam 2:19 "Arise, cry out in the night, At the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift

thebiblemadeplain.com

In the Old Testament times the night was divided into three parts of four hours each, called watches.

The first of these watches is mentioned in Lamentations 2:19.

Lam 2:19 “Arise, cry out in the night, At the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift your hands toward Him For the life of your young children, Who faint from hunger at the head of every street.”

The middle watch is mentioned in Judges 7:19.

Jdg 7:19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outpost of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just as they had posted the watch; and they blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.

The last watch, also called the morning watch, is mentioned in Exodus 14:24.

Exo 14:24 Now it came to pass, in the morning watch, that the LORD looked down upon the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud, and He troubled the army of the Egyptians.

By the time of the New Testament, a fourth watch had been added (presumably as a result of Roman influence) so that the night was divided into four watches of three hours each: 6pm – 9pm, 9pm – midnight, midnight – 3am, and 3am – 6am. They seem to have been called the first watch, the second watch, the third watch, and the fourth watch. The third and fourth watches are mentioned directly.

Mat 14:25 Now in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking on the sea.

Mar 6:48 Then He saw them straining at rowing, for the wind was against them. Now about the fourth watch of the night He came to them, walking on the sea, and would have passed them by.

Luk 12:38 And if he should come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

The verse has 2 parts added together with the word "and". You only mentioned half of the equation.

"For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, "and" as a watch in the night."

Strictly interpreting any verse declaring the Day of the Lord will not give you an explicit 24 hours. Why do you keep insisting that 24 hours is equal to 1000 years instead of just accepting that the Day of the Lord is equal to 1,000 years?

Even the word "day" in Greek in 2 Peter 3 is not 24 hours, but the working day during the 12 hours of light, also divided up into hours worked; 3, 6, or 9. Matthew 20:1-5

"For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way. Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise."

 

[parousia70]

Why do you keep insisting that 24 hours is equal to 1000 years instead of just accepting that the Day of the Lord is equal to 1,000 years?

Where have I insisted anything of the sort?

And where does scripture teach that the day of the lord (there have been several of those) is = to 1000 years?

None of the previous Day of the Lord events have lasted 1000 years, or even 100...

 

[Timtofly]

Where have I insisted anything of the sort?

And where does scripture teach that the day of the lord (there have been several of those) is = to 1000 years?

None of the previous Day of the Lord events have lasted 1000 years, or even 100...

You have to point them out in Scripture. And you are still insisting the Day of the Lord is a 24 hour day. You have not acknowledged the Scriptures that indicate a period of a thousand years, and showing they cannot be a thousand years.

No one is claiming the Day of the Lord is 100 years. Every verse in Scripture talking about 1,000 literal years is comparing that time to God's perspective.

 

[parousia70]

You have to point them out in Scripture.

Sure thing.
The desolation of Jerusalem by the Babylonians was a past "Day of the Lord." After it happened, the prophet Jeremiah tells us:

Lamentations 1:12
behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

Lamentations 2:1
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger

Lamentations 2:21
The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.

Lamentations 2:22
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained

Furthermore, Ezekiel had foretold of this same Day of the Lord against Jerusalem which took place in the 500s BC, saying:

Ezekiel 7:19
They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

And again, Ezekiel says of this same past Day of the Lord...

Ezekiel 13:2-5
Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of Jehovah.

The prophet Zephaniah also calls the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians "the Day of the Lord."

Zephaniah 1:1 - 1:7

The word of Yahweh which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah. I will utterly sweep away everything off of the surface of the earth, says Yahweh. I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh. I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place: the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests, those who worship the host of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam, those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven't sought Yahweh nor inquired after him. Be silent at the presence of the Lord Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.

The Destruction of Babylon by the Medes in 539 BC was also a past "Day of the Lord" according to Isaiah:

Isaiah 13:9-13 Behold, the day of the LORD comes, Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, To lay the land desolate; And He will destroy its sinners from it. 10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not give their light; The sun will be darkened in its going forth, And the moon will not cause its light to shine. 11 "I will punish the world for its evil, And the wicked for their iniquity; I will halt the arrogance of the proud, And will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. 12 I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold, A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir. 13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, And the earth will move out of her place, In the wrath of the LORD of hosts And in the day of His fierce anger.

There we have the classic "Day of the Lord" in scripture. Not one single one time event, but a phrase the prophets used to describe any number of Temporal Judgments, NONE of which lasted only 24 hours.

And you are still insisting the Day of the Lord is a 24 hour day.

Not once ever have I insisted anythng of the sort.

You have not acknowledged the Scriptures that indicate a period of a thousand years, and showing they cannot be a thousand years.

What does that mean?

No one is claiming the Day of the Lord is 100 years.

No one is claiming it's 24 hours either. Each of The past Day of the Lord events I referenced above lasted only a few months to a few years tops.

Every verse in Scripture talking about 1,000 literal years is comparing that time to God's perspective.

EVERY verse? Even this one?
Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
3 If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a [b]stillborn child is better than he— 4 for it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness. 5 Though it has not seen the sun or known anything, this has more rest than that man, 6 even if he lives a thousand years twice—but has not seen goodness. Do not all go to one place?

 

[OldAbramBrown]

The Zephaniah 1: 1-7 prophecy can be fulfilled again, because of the rise of high handed religion once more.

 

[Timtofly]

Sure thing.
The desolation of Jerusalem by the Babylonians was a past "Day of the Lord." After it happened, the prophet Jeremiah tells us:

Lamentations 1:12
behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

Lamentations 2:1
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger

Lamentations 2:21
The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.

Lamentations 2:22
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained

Furthermore, Ezekiel had foretold of this same Day of the Lord against Jerusalem which took place in the 500s BC, saying:

Ezekiel 7:19
They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

And again, Ezekiel says of this same past Day of the Lord...

Ezekiel 13:2-5
Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of Jehovah.

The prophet Zephaniah also calls the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians "the Day of the Lord."

Zephaniah 1:1 - 1:7

The word of Yahweh which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah. I will utterly sweep away everything off of the surface of the earth, says Yahweh. I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh. I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place: the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests, those who worship the host of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam, those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven't sought Yahweh nor inquired after him. Be silent at the presence of the Lord Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.

The Destruction of Babylon by the Medes in 539 BC was also a past "Day of the Lord" according to Isaiah:

Isaiah 13:9-13 Behold, the day of the LORD comes, Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, To lay the land desolate; And He will destroy its sinners from it. 10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not give their light; The sun will be darkened in its going forth, And the moon will not cause its light to shine. 11 "I will punish the world for its evil, And the wicked for their iniquity; I will halt the arrogance of the proud, And will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. 12 I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold, A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir. 13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, And the earth will move out of her place, In the wrath of the LORD of hosts And in the day of His fierce anger.

There we have the classic "Day of the Lord" in scripture. Not one single one time event, but a phrase the prophets used to describe any number of Temporal Judgments, NONE of which lasted only 24 hours.


Not once ever have I insisted anythng of the sort.

What does that mean?

No one is claiming it's 24 hours either. Each of The past Day of the Lord events I referenced above lasted only a few months to a few years tops.

EVERY verse? Even this one?
Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
3 If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a [b]stillborn child is better than he— 4 for it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness. 5 Though it has not seen the sun or known anything, this has more rest than that man, 6 even if he lives a thousand years twice—but has not seen goodness. Do not all go to one place?

The Day of the Lord is not judgment. The Day of the Lord is a period of a thousand years that is preceded by judgment. The day of wrath and judgment is not the same as the Day of the Lord. The first Day of the Lord was mentioned in Genesis 2:1-4. The Day of creation including the Sabbath which was the Day of the Lord.

"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,"

So we see that judgment on sin happens prior to the Day of the Lord. Other judgment is just a day of judgment of various lengths. It is judgment that is short. It is the Day of the Lord after the judgment that is considered the thousand years.

 

[parousia70]

The Day of the Lord is not judgment.

Jeremiah the Prophet:

Lamentations 1:12
behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

Lamentations 2:21
The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.

Lamentations 2:22
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained

Ezekiel the Prophet:

Ezekiel 7:19
They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.


Ezekiel 13:2-5
Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of Jehovah.

Zephaniah the Prophet:

Zephaniah 1:1 - 1:7

The word of Yahweh which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah. I will utterly sweep away everything off of the surface of the earth, says Yahweh. I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh. I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place: the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests, those who worship the host of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam, those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven't sought Yahweh nor inquired after him. Be silent at the presence of the Lord Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.

Isaiah the Prophet:

Isaiah 13:9-13 Behold, the day of the LORD comes, Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, To lay the land desolate; And He will destroy its sinners from it. 10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not give their light; The sun will be darkened in its going forth, And the moon will not cause its light to shine. 11 "I will punish the world for its evil, And the wicked for their iniquity; I will halt the arrogance of the proud, And will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. 12 I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold, A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir. 13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, And the earth will move out of her place, In the wrath of the LORD of hosts And in the day of His fierce anger.

The Apostle Paul:

1 Thessalonians 5:1-3
1 But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. 2 For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 3 For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.

The Apostle Peter:

2 Peter 3:10
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

Hmmm... the Prophets and Apostles above all confirm the Day of the Lord IS Judgment.

21st century internet guy Timtofly says Nope, they're all wrong.

You'll forgive me for siding with the Prophets and Apostles when choosing which of these directly opposed, polar opposite positions to accept as true and correct.