The concept of "day" in Scripture

 

Hello John and Doves,

 

Today I want just briefly to touch on one important area. As I listen to various teachers searching for the rapture, I find that almost everyone keeps quoting verse Mat 24:36 “We know not the day of the rapture, neither does the Lord know it.” This verse is misinterpreted, however, because at the time Jesus spoke these words, no one knew of the rapture of the church. In the preceding verse 35, the Lord speaks of a new heaven and a new earth, and it is likely that verse 36 refers to the day when God will create a new heaven and earth. In the original texts of Scripture, the books were not divided into chapters and sections, as they are today, which often significantly changes the meaning of the message.

 

It is important to know the meaning of the term “day” in Scripture and to maintain its identical meaning in all the verses in which it occurs. In Mat 24:36, it speaks of a day, and about the day is also spoken of in 1 Thess 5:4 “But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.”

 

At Mt 24:36 and 1 Thess 5:4, the same word “hémera” is used for “day” in the original Greek. This word literally means: (a) a day from sunrise to sunset, (b) a 24-hour day. A thief always comes to rob a house on a specific day, and in order to be ready to prevent him from doing so, we must know that day. For many, that day will be like a thief in the night because they have not been able to believe from the Scriptures that we should know that day and will not be ready for it.

 

The devil knows how important it is to know the day of the rapture, so so him hidden it perfectly so that people in the Bible will not be able to see it. His victory is that he has managed to convince almost the entire church that the feast of Pentecost is not in the summer, but is in the spring. By is what they are all the places in Scripture that speak of the day of the rapture on the day of the feast of Pentecost are perfectly hidden.



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Blessings, Petr