Some take this “day” to encompass the whole period of the believer’s life, or more especially his seasons of trial and suffering. However, in this view we lose sight of Christ. There are others who think it refers to the entire period since Christ was crucified. I would suggest that this latter is the correct view. The absence of Christ from the earth, the presence of Satan as the “prince of this world,” and the manifestations of his power, as permitted by God, constitute “the evil day.” Christ was the light of the world while He was in it, but He was rejected and crucified, and He returned to His Father. Since then this world has been again in darkness and governed by demons, though of course God is supreme, and overrules all for His own glory and His people’s good. Satan is the god whom this world worships, and the prince whom it follows. How solemn! How awful the thought! What a dreadful place this world must be! Surely we should all care less for it than we do, if we really believed this terrible fact.
Things New and Old, Vol. 14