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THE GREAT DAY OF GOD ALMIGHTY

This is the message by which Adonai, the God of Israel, has informed His people Israel, and the world at large, of His great plan and intention withHiscreation. The numerous people He has used to bring this message over centuries - from the books of Moses and Isaiah through Jesus and Revelation - have shown remarkable consistency in their expression ofHis ultimate plan. Though they have spoken centuries apart there is a well-defined golden thread of understanding linking all of them - a work of His Holy Spirit.

There is, however, an equally well defined misrepresentation in the timing and order of events of this great expectation by some of the writers of the New Testament. This mistaken and premature presentation has altered the original intent, with catastrophic results to history. It will be seen in our study how the prophetic framework, within which the New Testament exists, begins with the introduction of an Elijah figure who, of necessity (as will be seen), announces the Day of the Lord with its greatest attribute - the advent of Adonai, the Lord - Yahweh.. And it ends somewhere in the unknown future where we find the preceding signs of that Day.

The ultimate expression of the New Testament, the Revelation - the only book thereof given by Adonai Himself - is a correction of the notion of the gospel writers. Adonai denies that He had come and states, on three occasions, that He is yet to come and will do so finally in “the Day...”

Rev. 16:14 …to gather them for the battle of the great Day of God Almighty.

:15 “Behold, I (Yahweh) come like a thief”.

We will study the advent of Yahweh in His Day. There is more evidence of this in Prophetic Scripture than there is of the advent of the Messiah or Messiah’s.

Substance of the Yom Yahweh

The concept “Yom Yahweh” is found in most of the Prophets, both the greater and the lesser, as a central theme - yet never spoken of in modern society. It is often characterised by the repetitive theme, “...in that day…”, and permeates large sections of prophetic Scripture. Who would have thought that some 70% of the first section of Isaiah or 1 Isaiah (chapters 1 - 39) is comprised of expressions of “that Day” as it pertains to the distant fortunes of Israel, the nations …and Satan? And how the ultimate book of “The Day of Yahweh”, the Revelation - written some 800 years later - confirms its essence - and places it in the future from 96 CE, when the Revelation was given?

1. Isaiah

Isa. 13 :9 “See, the day of the Lord is coming…”

According to the Dykes Concordance to the King James Bible, the term “In that Day...” appears fifty times in Isaiah.

Isa. 14 :3 On the day Yahweh gives you relief from suffering and turmoil and cruel bondage,

:4 you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon:

How the oppressor has come to an end! How his fury has ended!

:19 How you have fallen from heaven, o morning star, son of the dawn!

You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the

nations.

21 :9 “...Babylon has fallen, has fallen.”

Rev. 6 :17 For the great day of their wrath has come.

16 :14 …to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty.

12 :9 The great dragon was hurled down - that ancient serpent called the

devil or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to

the earth, and his angels with him.

18 :2 “...Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!”

Isaiah saw these great eschatological events some 2700 years ago. John, the receiver of the Revelation, kept the vision alive – pending the revoking of the “delay”.

Isaiah 2 - 4 show what the latter days kingdom of Yahweh and His Messiah will look like and how it is to come about through the Yom Yahweh;

Isa. 2 :2 In the Acharit Hayemim - the latter days - the mountain of the

Lord’s temple will be established as chief among the mountains;

it will be raised above the hills and all nations will stream to it.

:3 Many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the

mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will

teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths”. Torah - the

Law - will go out from Zion, the word of Yahweh from

Jerusalem.

:4 He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for

many peoples. They will beat their swords into plough shares and

their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword

against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.

:5 Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of Yahweh.

The following section from Isa. 2:6 through 4:6 has a heading; The Day of the Lord (NIV) which reveals how Israel will come full circle back to Yahweh - through severe tribulation and purging - to be restored and healed in their own land. And there we find their glorious, conquering Messiah, in their midst. In that Day.

Isa. 2 :12 Yahweh Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty…

:20 In that day men will throw away to the rodents and bats their

idols of silver and idols of gold (materialism?), which they made

to worship.

3 :7 But in that day he will cry out, “I have no remedy…”

:18 In that day Yahweh will snatch away their finery...

4 :1 In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say…

4 :2 In that day the Branch of Yahweh will be beautiful and

glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory

of the survivors in Israel.

:3 Those who are left in Zion, who remain in Jerusalem, will be

called holy (kadosh - set apart), all who are recorded among

the living in Jerusalem.

This is the introduction to the Acharit Hayemim or Latter Days Kingdom of Isaiah 2.

From Isa 11 through 19 we find a lengthy description of Yahweh’s dealing with Israel, the power of the Root of Jesse and the fate of the enemies of Israel - regularly punctuated by the refrain “...in that day…”.

Isa 11 :1 A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a

Branch will bear fruit.

:2 The Spirit of Yahweh will rest on him - the Spirit of wisdom and of

understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of power, the Spirit of

knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh -

:3 And he will delight in the fear of Yahweh.

:10 In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the

peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his place of rest

(sanctuary) will be glorious.

:11 In that day Yahweh will reach out His hand a second time to

reclaim the remnant that is left of His people from...

:12 He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of

Israel; He will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the

four quarters of the earth.

12:1 In that day you will say: “I will praise you , O Lord. Although

you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you

have comforted me.”

13 :1 An oracle concerning Babylon…

:6 Wail for the day of Yahweh is near; it will come like destruction

from the Almighty.

:9 See, the day of Yahweh is coming - a cruel day, with wrath and

fierce anger - to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners

within it.

:13 ...in the day of His burning anger.

:19 Babylon… will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah

14 :1 Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will

choose Israel and will settle them in their own land. Aliens will

join them and unite with the house of Jacob.

:3 On the day Yahweh gives you relief from suffering and cruel

bondage,

:4 you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the

oppressor has come to an end! How his fury has ended!

:12 How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the

dawn...

The theme continues further through Chapter 14 and numerous chapters, with dire warnings against many enemy nations. Warnings of punishment and destruction with liberation decreed for Jacob.

14 :25 Against Assyria.

14:29 Against the Philistines (Palestinians).

15:1 Against Moab.

17:1 Against Damascus.

:7 In that day men will look to their Maker, and turn their eyes to

the Holy one of Israel.

1 8 :1 Against Cush.

:7 At that time gifts will be brought to Yahweh Almighty…

19 :1 Against Egypt.

:7 In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will

shudder with fear at the uplifted hand that Yahweh Almighty

raises against them.

:9 In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the

Israelites, will be like places abandoned...

The dire words of warning continue. And in the midst of these again appears the promise of Israel’s King;

16 :4 ...the oppressor will come to an end and destruction will cease;

the aggressor will vanish from the land.

17 :5 In love a throne will be established; in faithfulness a man will sit

on it - one from the House of David - one who in judging seeks

justice and speeds the cause of righteousness.

Such is the substance of Yom Yahweh. And when we turn to The Book of The Day… - The Revelation - we will find that substance. Substance delayed - yet to be fulfilled.

Continuing through Isaiah we find the author again taking up the theme, with renewed intensity, from Chapter 24 through 35 - the ultimate expectation. It starts off with a frightful warning of punishment and destruction because;

Isa. 24 :5 The earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws,

violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant.

The theme, however, develops over the following chapters through castigation, restoration into kingdom. The reader will do well to read through these chapters and note the recurrence of the theme; “In that day…”

Isa. 24 :21 In that day Yahweh will punish the powers in the heavens

above and the kings on the earth below.

25 :9 In that day they will say: - “Surely this is our God; we trusted

in Him, and he saved us.”

26 :1 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:…

:21 See Yahweh is coming out of His dwelling to punish the people

of the earth for their sins. The earth will disclose the blood shed

upon her; she will conceal her slain no longer.

27 :1 In that day, Yahweh will punish with the sword... Leviathan

the gliding serpent…

:2 In that day - “Sing about a fruitful vineyard: I, Yahweh watch

over it...”

:12 In that day Yahweh will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to

the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered one

by one

:13 In that day a great shofar will sound (the seventh shofar of

Revelation). Those who were perishing in Assyria and those

who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship Yahweh on

the holy mountain in Jerusalem.

(Much will be said about the Great Alliyah - Return in the Day of the Lord, eg.

from Ezek. 39:25; Matth.24:31).

28 :2 See, Yahweh has one who is powerful and strong...

:5 In that day Yahweh Almighty will be a glorious crown…

29 :18 In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll…

30 :23 ...in that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows.

31 :7 For in that day everyone of you will reject the idols of silver

and gold your hands have made.

32 :1 See, a king will reign in righteousness…

:15 till the Spirit is poured upon us from on high…

33 :17 Your eyes will see the king in his beauty.

34 :8 For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution to uphold Zion’s cause... (at the revoking of the “Delay” in the unknown future)

The authors of 2 and 3 Isaiah (40 -59 and 60 - 66) do not have the same emphasis on the day…”. Nevertheless, they have much to say about the coming of Yahweh to dwell among His people - which is the crowning event of Yom Yahweh - and about His Suffering and Conquering Messiahs.

Isa. 49 :8 This is what Yahweh says, “In the time of My favor I will answer

you, and in the day of salvation I will help you”.

52 :6 Therefore, My people will know My Name; therefore in that day

they will know that it is I who foretold it. Yes, it is I.”

2. Jeremiah.

While Isaiah exhibits this distant futuristic vision, Jeremiah has a far more localised ministry, concerning Israel of his time. Regarding “the Day…”, his main expression concerns “Jacob’s trouble...”, followed by the restoration of the land, the people, the city and the establishment of the New Covenant - Torah - in the hearts of the people, by the Holy Spirit (Jer. 30 - 31 and 33:14 - 26).

Jer. 30 :7 How awful that day will be! None will be like it. It will be a

time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved out of it.

:8 “In that day”, declares Yahweh, “I will break the yoke off their

necks…”

31 :1 “At that time”, declares Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the

clans of Israel and they will be My people.”

31 :31 “The time is coming”, declares Yahweh, “when I will make a

new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

:33 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after

that time,” declares Yahweh. “I will put Torah in their

minds…”

33 :15 “In those days and at that time I will make a righteous

Branch sprout from David’s line...”

3. Ezekiel

Ezek. 13 :5 You (false prophets in Israel) have not gone up to the breaks in the

wall to repair it for the house of Israel so that it will stand firm in

the battle on the day of the Lord.

This is part of a wide ranging repudiation of Israel and her prophets, concerning her sinfulness and imminent destruction. In retrospect it reaches back to the sins of Sodom (Ezek. 16:49) and in prospect it sees Israel’s future deliverance in “the day…” with David, their Prince, in their midst.

Ezek. 34 :24 I, Yahweh, will be their God, and My servant David will be

prince among them. I, Yahweh, have spoken”.

36 :26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will

remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of

flesh. (See also Ezek. 11:19,20)

:27 And I will put My Spirit in you and move you to follow My

decrees and be careful to keep My laws.

Then the prophecy unfolds into the climax, by which it is to come about - a profound statement of confirmation;

Ezek. 39 :8 “It is coming! It will surely take place”, declares Sovereign

Yahweh, “THIS IS THE DAY I HAVE SPOKEN OF”.

Following this, we see the great events of Yom Yahweh come about through the remainder of Ezekiel;

1. The great return of the exiles - the great Aliyah (Ezek. 39:25).

2. Restoration of the land (Ezek 39:26; 48)

3. Outpouring of the Holy Spirit (Ezek. 39:29)

4. The new Sanctuary (Ezek. 40 - 43)

5. Yahweh coming to dwell among His people (Ezek. 43:4 - 7)

6. The Prince in Israel (who is not Yahweh) in the presence of Yahweh (Ezek. 44:3);

(Ps110.1)

4. Daniel.

The Prophet Daniel doesn’t call it by name. However, his eschatological expectation centers around the revelation of 70 weeks of years, which would be required for fulfillment of “vision and prophecy”(Dan.9:24). This most important revelation will be revisited in detail in Chapter 12. If we turn to Revelation, we find this fulfillment to come about after the revoking of the “delay”.

Rev. 10 :6 “... There shall now be no more delay.

:7 But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his shofar,

the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as He announced to

His servants the prophets”.

What is now most noticeable is that, following the revoking of the “delay”, we see the constant refrain of;

1. 42 months (Rev.11:2)

2. 1260 days (Rev.11:3)

3. 1260 days (Rev.12:6)

This time schedule coincides with the latter half of Daniels 70^th week. This is also found in Dan. 7:25 “...The saints will be handed over to him for a time, times and half a time”.

And so we find the Son of Man Messiah/Man child Messiah (Dan.7:13,14; Rev.12:5), arriving in the heavenlies with a time, times and half a time (or 1260 days) - the latter half of Daniel’s 70^th week – remaining, within which the final, collective fulfillment of prophecy is to take place; ALL IN THE FUTURE! This is the Yom Yahweh, which follows the preceding signs thereof in Rev.6:12 - the sixth seal - as will be discussed in detail.

From this analysis it can be seen that Yom Yahweh is associated with the second half of Daniel’s 70^th week - which has been delayed. It appears that mankind has lived in a time vacuum - “delayed” time in the middle of that 70^th week for almost 2000 years - since Yeshua. Why?

5. The Lesser Prophets.

Turning to the lesser prophets we find numerous most valuable references to Yom Yahweh. Most notable are Joel, Zephaniah, Zechariah, Malachi, and Amos.

a. Joel

The theme of the entire prophecy is the Yom Yahweh. This book of Joel is one of the best presentations of the theme. It shows the preceding scenario of separation and hardship in its first chapter. The second chapter describes the cataclysmic events and the third chapter the aftermath. And there is a short summary in the middle; Joel 2:30 - 3:1.

Joel 2 :11c The Day of the Lord is great, it is dreadful. Who can endure it?

:32 ...for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance,

as Yahweh had said...

b. Obadiah

Obadiah:15 The day of the Lord is near for all nations. As you have done, it will

be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own heads.

:17 But on Mount Zion will be deliverance; it will be holy, and the

house of Jacob will possess its inheritance.

c. Zephaniah

From Zeph 1:14 through Zeph 3:20, Zephaniah gives a vivid description of tribulation and restoration associated with “The Day…”.

Zeph.1 :14 “The great day of the Lord is near….”

3 :16 On that day they will say “Do not fear, O Zion…”

:17 Yahweh your God is with you, He is mighty to save…

d. Zechariah

Chapters 12 - 14 reveals vast information, showing numerous events of correction of Yom Yahweh. Among these is the advent of Yahweh and the singularity of Himself and His name.

Zech. 14 :1 “A day of the Lord is coming….”

:9 “Yahweh will be king over the whole earth. On that day Yahweh

will be ONE and His Name ONE”

e. Malachi

Short and sweet but with powerful statements.

Mal. 3 :2 But who can stand the day of his (Messiah’s) coming?

:17 “They will be mine,” says Yahweh Almighty, “in the day when I

(Yahweh) make up My treasured possession.”

4 :1 Surely the day is coming...

4 :5 See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and

dreadful day of the Lord comes. (This is the final statement of

the Tanakh - the Hebrew Bible)

. Amos

Amos 5 :18 Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord! Why do you long

for the day of the Lord? That day will be darkness, not light.

9 :11 In that day I will restore David’s fallen tent.

g. Future – Delayed

Rev. 1 :10 I was in the Spirit on the Day of the Lord…

6 :17 For the great day of their wrath has come…

16 :14 …to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty

:16 …Armageddon… (not the end - the introduction to God’s Kingdom)

All of these will be referred to in detail as our study progresses.

THEREFORE: TRIBULATION AND RESTORATION

Having studied these numerous presentations of Yom Yahweh, and having discovered the remarkable consistency of expectation through all of them, we can summarise by saying that Yom Yahweh will consist of;

1. Tribulation - both in Israel and the nations.

2. Yahweh’s judgment of the enemies of Israel and of evil forces in the heavens.

3. Deliverance of Judah and Israel from their enemies.

4. Return from the diasporah.

5. Restoration of the Land of Eretz Israel, the City of Yerushalaim

6 A New Sanctuary.

7 Cleansing of the Remnant as by fire.

8. Rising of the dead. (Isa.26:19,20)

9. Outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the restored and cleansed remnant of Israel and all who are joined to them.

10. Advent of Yahweh. This must be the greatest event of Yom Yahweh. A voice calling in the desert – “Make straight the way for Yahweh".

There is more in prophetic scripture about the advent of Yahweh - in a form which we cannot

possibly understand - than there is about Messiah or Messiahs. A study of this

enormous subject will be done.

11. Advent of the Son of Man / Man Child / Root of Jesse / Branch / Prince / Son

of David Messiah.

12. Institution of the New Covenant.

13. The establishment of Yahweh’s world kingdom of peace through Israel. An

earthly dispensation.

And so we can see how God’s latter days kingdom flows from the Yom Yahweh. The kingdom does not end in it, as the great Anti-Chiliastic Church seems to believe, but departs from it. This Church of multitudes of sincere people has failed to recognise the “DELAY” of the execution of Yahweh’s purpose. The Church has the eschatological process in inverted order – back to front. Why?

It is a sobering thought that some 50% or more of all prophetic Scripture concerns these collective events and that they are all destined to take place in a mere 3 ½ years (42 months or 1260 days) – in the future, from the moment when the “delay” is revoked.

By invoking an Elijah figure in John the Baptist, the writers of the Synoptic Gospels (followed by other New Testament writers), have sought to tell us that these events have now taken place. The Church Fathers - eg. St Augustine - then set about explaining this in Spiritualised / Allegorised form - in the Gentile Church. Yahweh, however, had the last word in giving the Revelation. Here He corrects that notion by denying that He had come and has yet to come. He does so by placing “the Day...” in the future - at the seventh seal, commencing from the sixth seal - restoring that golden thread of expectation. Yet, in the Gospel stories there is a Yeshua figure who denies that Elijah and, consequently, “the Day…” had come. One who denies that he is the Son of Man Messiah - placing all in the future, after the tribulation - to the endless confusion in the Church and Synagogue. The major question then remains;

Why would the Gospel writers want to appropriate Yom Yahweh when all the evidence proved otherwise?

And...

If Yom Yahweh had then not come, WHO IS YESHUA?