Bible Discussion Thread

A day is decreed for the Son. To which all the days mentioned in the Abstract (Ge.ch.1) shall flow into. It is the day of the Lord and is marked with horrors for those who refused the blessedness the Lord God held out for the blessed in the Son. It is the Day of vengeance. In order to understand the passage from Isaiah we need two passages that shall throw light on the day specified in the Book of Isaiah. "For it is the day of theLord's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion"(34:8)

"Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth./ He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth;....Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth(Ps.46:8-10)". The earth abides forever since the fulness of God who lives in inapproachable light is shown in terms of knowledge. "For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea."(Hab.2:14). This glory is what Zion signifies. Before the foundation of the world the Lord laid the foundation stone in Zion. (Is.28:16). In the Book of Proverbs it is described as the house which Wisdom has built. The seven days marking the Abstract in the ch.1 are the pillars. God laid it perfection and it shall be in his Son a city set on a hill, which as Jesus referred cannot be hid. Isaiah refers to this work in his Son, "Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet:"(Is.28:17a)

Day of vengeance has a beginning. To this Jesus warned of, "All these are the beginning of sorrows."(Matt.24:8)Is.34 begins thus:"Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein"(v.1) Jesus explains these sorrows in a way we can well understand since we are in the middle of it. "For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquake."