December 27, 2004

Who Would Want the Day of the Lord?*

For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates."
(Jeremiah, Chapter 46)

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"For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night."

(1 Thessalonians, Chapter 5)


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But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

(Peter, Chapter 38)

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Wounded and orphaned by the air strike on April 6, (2004) Ali Ismail Abbas, 12. "It was midnight when the missile fell on us. My father, my mother and my brother died," he said at the Kindi Hospital in Baghdad.

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*Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.

(Amos Chapter 5)

Posted by Cieciel at December 27, 2004 09:01 AM