The precise words day of The LORD occur 23 times in the Bible. Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD(1)... For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low(2)... And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.(3)... Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty....all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy its sinners out of it. For the stars of heaven and its constellations shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.I will make a man more rare than fine gold; ... I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.(4)... let the earth hear, ...For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.And all the host (stars)of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down...(5)... Howl ye... For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.(6)... Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine... for it is cut off from your mouth.(7)... Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come... Is not the meat cut off before our eyes...The seed is rotten...the barns are broken down...the corn is withered. How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture... O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field. The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.(8) ... sound an alarm... let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh... A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness...(9)... 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.(10)... For thus saith the LORD God of Israel ... they shall drink,(the cup of My wrath) and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them... The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.(11)... A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD...evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.(12)... And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.(13)... And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a ...and a great crashing from the hills.(14)... Therefore their goods shall become a booty(spoil), and their houses a desolation...(15)... The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.(16)... That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness(17)... And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.(18)... Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.(19)... 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.(20)... For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness(Jesus) arise with healing in his wings...(21) (1)Isa 2:10 (2) Isa 2:12 (3) Isa 2:19 (4) Isa 13:6-13 (5) Isa 34:1-4 (6) Ezk 30:1-3(7) Joel 1:5 (8) Joel 2:15,18-20 (9) Joel 2:1-2 (10) Obadiah 1:15 (11) Jer25:16,30(12) Jer 25:31-33 (13) Jer 25:37-38 (14) Zeph 1:10 (15) Zeph 1:13 (16) Zeph 1:14(17) Zech 1:15 (18) Zeph 1:17 (19) Zeph 1:18 (20) Zeph 2:3 (21) Malachi 4:1-2 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.(II Thess 1:7-10)
Terrible Judgement from the Lord is coming upon the whole earth...INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES...Turn to Jesus NOW while there's still time...REPENT, BELIEVE THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM AND BE BAPTISED.
I would whole-heartily recommend that you read Thirteen Lectures on The Apocalypse if you want to know the TRUTH about the Book of Revelation and what all those symbols mean. It will become clear to you after reading this excellent work that the HISTORICAL interpretation of the last book of the Bible is the only interpretation that is correct. The preterist (past) view was founded by the Jesuit Alcasar in 1614, explaining the Revelation by the Fall of Jerusalem or by the fall of Pagan Rome in 410 A.D. and the futurist view, founded by the Jesuit Ribera in 1591, looks for Anti-Christ, Babylon, and a rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem, at the end of the Christian Dispensation.
These false interpretations were just a result of the Catholic Church's atempt to dispell the widespread belief that the Papacy was the man of sin and their Church was Mystery Babylon, Mother of harlots. They had no other choice. They had to do something to counteract the Reformation taking place. You see... in A.D. 1180, the Waldensians published a treatise entitled, "Treatise on Antichrist", in which the Papacy was nominated as the man of sin and the Catholic Church as the harlot of Babylon. This was followed a little over three centuries later by John Wycliffe's "The Mirror of Antichrist", in which essentially the same points were made. In 1520, Martin Luther published his book, "The Babylonian Captivity of the Church", in which the theme was repeated. The influence of these ideas as to the identity of who Babylon and the Antichrist was, were clearly seen and could not be disputed - namely the remarkable conformity between her actions and what was prophesied about a persecuting power to arise out of the Roman Empire.
Rome, which, by the hand of Pilate, killed the Lord Jesus; which, by Nero, beheaded "our beloved brother Paul," and threw his body to the beasts; which, by a similar edict, dishonoured and crucified erring but forgiven, impulsive but lovable, Peter; which slaughtered the friends of Christ by the thousand in the days of Paganism; which, by Titus, levelled Jerusalem with the ground, drowned the flames of the temple in the blood of Israel, and scattered a miserable remnant to the winds; Rome, the implacable enemy and destroyer of the Jews, in all the centuries, Pagan and Papal; Rome, the Papal foe of the Scriptures, and the murderer of the saints; Rome, the inventor of torments and foul iniquities of the monastery and dungeon; Rome, who flaunts among her architectural ornaments the sculptured forms of the dishonoured furniture of Jehovah's sanctuary; Rome of the Caesars, and Rome of the Popes and Cardinals; Rome of the long dark and dreadful history of the world; Rome, the mistress of kings and the debaucher of the nations; Rome, the corrupter of the world to an extent the corrupted populations do not realize in their corruption; seven-hilled Rome on the Tiber, which blasphemes heaven by arrogating to herself the title of the Eternal City, and exhibiting her chief magistrate to all the world as the Holy Father; Great Babylon, the Mother of Harlots and the abominations of the earth; -- this is the Rome that is destined most terribly to fall before the first blast of Jehovah's fury, long pent up "deferred for his name's sake," but shortly to descend in roaring tempest that will sweep away all refuge of lies, and level the pride of man with the dust, that the Lord alone may be exalted, and the nations blessed in Abraham and his seed.Robert Roberts, Thirteen Lectures On The Apocalypse, Page 180
