V.1-11 You will need to watch your chart carefully. These verses are not referring to the Lord’s coming which we were reading of yesterday. “C” on chart. They refer to “E” the coming of the Lord with us. Not many believers know the difference. The “day of the Lord” has been prophesied since Enoch’s day (Jude 14). The entire Old Testament only refers to “E” (on chart) and never mentions “C”. No doubt this is why Paul says that he had no need to explain this coming (“E”). It is the day of the Lord’s greatest exaltation. The death of Christ was the day of His greatest humiliation. It will affect every creature in heaven and on earth, and will bring about a tremendous change on the earth — the millennium will begin, the reign of Christ as King over this entire world, the Day of the Lord. This coming of the Lord is referred to as “the appearing,” because the whole world will see Him (as the Sun of Righteousness Mal. 4:2 — the sun wakes up people). But when He comes for us, it is like the morning star rising Rev. 22:16 — the world sleeps when this star rises.
V.2 The day of the Lord’s coming is as a thief in the night. The day is like a thief, not that the Lord is like a thief. He will take away the unsaved, not the saved. “Two shall be in the field; the one (unsaved) shall be taken, and the other (believer) left.”
Matt. 24:39-40. This is referring to the “appearing” — “E” on chart.
V.8 These things are important for every believer to know.