A GREAT AND TERRIBLE DAY

  Jesus IS JHWH (Yahweh); forty-eight times Jesus said, “I AM.” That he, Jesus, IS God. God Created, God shall Recreate, and God shall destroy what cannot be made “very good” again. God came for two occasions: to save and to allow the unsavable to perish. Each person decides their own fate, and Jesus sits on his throne in heaven to thresh out the good grain from the chaff, so to speak. The standards for reward and punishment are his, and they are just metrics.
  So that mankind knows the standards for reward, Jesus, “the finger” of God, wrote those standards on stone for perpetuity. They are the conditions of the Covenant of Grace; how to love mankind, and as such, are the prescriptions for eternal “health.” Those who do not take to heart what is prescribed, shall die of a heart condition. Jesus came to circumcise the dead flesh from the hearts of all men as original sin made all hearts corrupted.
  Jesus uses the sword of the Word to excise that deadness of the heart. He does it quickly and with an “anesthetic” given with grace. Some do not see the need for the circumcision of the leprous flesh, and others not only know that they need Divine Surgery, but welcome the “Good Doctor” into their hearts to regenerate it.
  Those who choose not to or fail to welcome the “Doctor” shall die by complications. They have curable iniquity within their hearts, but fail to be healed.
  God came in the flesh to heal; so that the “Doctor” will be allowed into the “operating room.” When Jesus came, it was a great day for those who would be healed, and a terrible day for those who would not be!

Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. (Mat 13:13-16)

  The first step in making the day a great day is recognizing God. Who is Jesus not? He is not John the Baptist, Elijah, Jeremiah, not any of the other patriarchs or prophets. Who IS Jesus? Peter answered it rightly; you are the promised Messiah, the very Son of the Living God. Jesus had said, “I AM.” Peter said I AM IS THAT I AM. He verified Jesus as the very Flesh of God! Why would they wonder if Jesus was Elijah or some other person? The prophet Malachi saw that great and terrible day hundreds of years before:

KEY VERSES: 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. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts. Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord (Mal 4:1-5)

  The Great and Terrible Day of the Lord is Judgment Day, but the “day” commenced when Jesus came. He was the evidence of what was coming. Malachi used the same Hebrew word “yowm” that was used in Genesis 1:1 for “day.” Both, I believe, mean the period of those processes. The process of generating the heaven and the earth took a certain amount of time, and the destruction, or cleansing process, of the Heaven and the Earth will also be for a certain period. And “day” in both passages are the events or processes. God generated the heaven and earth in a yown, and He will degenerate it in a yown. It may be that a yown for generating and a yown for degenerating is not of the same time duration.
  It makes sense to read about the terrible yown: “And I (John) saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea” (Rev 21:1). That terrible day is the day of the Lord, and by the way, it will be a great day for Christians because they will survive the fire, as Noah’s family did the flood in his yown. 
  The first destruction of the Earth took forty days (yown). There is no reason to believe that the Heaven and Earth will be destroyed in one day, but one yown – a period in time. That pertains to the generation of the heaven and earth as well. The Word of God said, “yown.”  I believe that with all my heart!  Translators called that “day” – I call it  “period in time” or era. Strong’s Dictionary agrees with that thought. (I realize that “day” is imbedded in our minds by tradition, but the Hebrew is the textus receptus for the Old Testament, not the king’s English! I believe that “day” is the proper translation for things related to the revolution of the sun, and forty-days were forty twenty-four hour periods for that process.)
  It seems from Malachi, that Judgment “Day” (yown) commences with Jesus, since he brought up the subject of Elijah who Jews thought was Jesus. Why would they even think that? Because Elijah never died, but was swept up in a whirlwind. Elijah revealed himself on the Mount of Transfiguration. Why would God whirlwind him back? So that the Jews (the four apostles) could see that Jesus is not Elijah!
  “Judgment Day” – that great and terrible yowm (Joel 2:31) was a period in time. It may be twenty-four hours or thousands of thousands of years! The Great Day of the Lord commenced in the age of Pisces, which was about year “0.” It seems that Jesus was born March 20, 6 B.C. Therefore, the Christian Era (yowm) is the length of the Zodiac sign Pisces (hence the fish symbol for Christ). It ends with the Age (yowm) of Aquarius. The Day of Christ is the Piscean Era, and the Day of the Antichrist is the Aquarian Era, or yowm.
 The era of the Antichrist ends with his destruction, and the cleansing of the earth by fire. Zodiac eras last for 2160 years based on the Earth’s precession. If the Christian era commenced in time “0” then it ends in 2160. If the Age of Aquarius is the Antichristian Era, then it can be expected that the heaven and earth will be destroyed before the year 4320. Since God will “surprise” Christians, the Age of the Antichrist may not last as long as the age of Christ. It seems that if astrologers are correct, then 2160 is when the Antichrist comes. Some suggest that he is already here and arrived as early as 1994. We may already be in the yowm of the Antichrist! Christians, to escape perishing with him, should be prepared as if it is tomorrow. Depending on the knowledge (calculations) of men is foolishness.
  The heaven and the earth could right now be in the process of destruction, but on a micro-level so small that the destruction remains unseen. Revelation indicates that not only will the Heaven and Earth shall perish, but the elements as well. With that said, God would recreate with new particles and antiparticles which do not decay! Perhaps the original particles had no half-life in that they were to be forever, and that God’s New Creation, the particles therein will have no half-life as they won’t decay!
  That makes sense because mankind was created immortal, and their carbon footprint had no half-life because decay was unknown prior to original sin. Time is measured by decay, and if there was no decay in the world as created, then time could not be measured!
  The fear of any person is forever perishing, whatever they claim! God wants that none should perish. Even Malachi realized that men feared perishing, and forewarned the Jews of that. Jesus came that we not perish, and the Jews rejected that. When the time of the Terrible Day comes, many Jews (144,000) will recognize that Jesus was not Elijah, and the great and terrible day has arrived!

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