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But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning promise, as some count slackness, but is long suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
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In the Hebrew Bible, the meaning of the phrases refers to temporal events such as the invasion of a foreign army, the capture of a city and the suffering that befalls the inhabitants. This appears much in the second chapter of
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of the Lord Jesus." On the other hand, the apostolic tradition confirms several testimonies of the apostolic fathers and church fathers which proclaim that early
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But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
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would intervene to put Israel at the head of the nations, irrespective of Israel's faithfulness to Him." Yet Amos declares "Woe to you who long for the day of the L
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of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low" (
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