The Great Day Of God's Wrrath! # 2

 The Great Day Of God's Wrath # 2

The words of my text contain two things - a reason and a question.

1. The former part is the ground or reason of this outcry here made by the kings and great men of the earth, together with every bond man and every free man, "For the great day of His wrath has come!"

2. The latter part is a question proposed about standing at that day, "And who shall be able to stand?"

The point of doctrine, which I shall lay down from these words, is this:

DOCTRINE: That the greatest part of men and women will not be able to stand in the great day of God's wrath.

In handling of this point, I shall show you four things:

1. There are some days greater than others.

2. The nature and property of this great day.

3. Who they are that will not be able to stand in the day of God's wrath.

4. The use and application.

In the first place I shall show you, beloved - that there are some great days spoken of in the Scripture.

The first great day you have in Jeremiah 30:7, "How awful that day will be! None will be like it! It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved out of it."

The second great day you have in Hosea 1:11. "What a great day that will be - the day of Jezreel - when God will again plant His people in His land."

The third great day in have in Joel 2:31, "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes."

The fourth great day you have in Mal. 4:5. "Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord."

The fifth great day is this in my text, "For the great day of His wrath has come - and who shall be able to stand?" (Revelation 6:17).

The sixth great day you have in Revelation 16:14, "They are demonic spirits who work miracles and go out to all the rulers of the world to gather them for battle against the Lord on that great judgment day of God Almighty."

The seventh and last great day you have in the Epistle of Jude, verse 6, "And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their own home - these He has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great day."

Thus, beloved, you see, that there are some days which are greater than others, which the Scripture calls "great days," because of the greatness of the work which God does, and will do, in those days.

2. I shall now show you the nature and properties of this great day in my text. Oh, my brethren! this will be a very dreadful and terrible day to the wicked, who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness, and put far from them the evil day, which is now hastening upon them.

~William Dyer~

(continued with # 3)