In Isaiah, chapter thirteen, verses six through thirteen, the destruction of Babylon in the Old Testament back in those days is a type of the end-time destruction of all God’s enemies and the final judgment to come over all the earth during the period of tribulation; Isaiah puts them both together here, as in Ezekiel thirty-two, verse seven, Joel two, verse ten, chapter three, verse sixteen, Haggai two, verses six to seven, verses twenty-one to twenty-two, and Zechariah fourteen, verses six to seven, respectively.
“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,” as in Zephaniah one, verse fifteen. ” The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come, as in Joel two, verse thirty-one. “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,” as in Obadiah one, verse fifteen. Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.”
Jesus said to His disciples in Matthew twenty-four, verse twenty-one, “For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.” Today, society has never become the way it is now. Concerning the day, the Son of God says in verse thirty-six of the same chapter, “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” The sad thing is, many people are publicly declaring the day of the Lord’s coming all over the globe. How could a human being know the time of His appearance, who God made, and yet the Word of God, which is from God and is God, as in John one, verse one, would possibly know the day?