Alas for you who desire the day of the Lord! Why do you want the day of the Lord? It is darkness, not light; as if someone fled from a lion, and was met by a bear; or went into the house and rested a hand against the wall, and was bitten by a snake. Is not the day of the Lord darkness, not light, and gloom with no brightness in it? (Amos 5:18-20, NRSV)
What is the day of the Lord?
I did an image search on it and that produced a lot of images about the end of time, or the judgment day of the Lord.
The day God returns to earth and we are all judged by Him.
And Amos has a good question here. Why do we want this?
Do you want to be judged by God for everything you did, for everything you didn’t do that you should have?
That is a dark dark day. When God will tell you everything that you did wrong.
I love the analogy of escaping a lion to run into a bear! Escape one torturous devouring to be taken by another.
But the one thing we know that Amos had not yet discovered is we have the Messiah. So the day of the Lord is light for us who have Jesus as our savior.
So live in the light that the darkness can not over come.
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