In this work, I have carefully gathered every Scripture that speaks about the Day of the Lord and brought them together into one unified vision. From this foundation, I crafted a narrative that weaves these verses into a single, continuous account—one that reflects the full intensity and meaning of what the Bible reveals.
While the phrase “Day of the Lord” may not always refer to a single 24-hour period, Scripture presents it as a brief yet overwhelmingly intense time of divine intervention. As part of this effort, I have also translated many of the ancient peoples and nations referenced in the Bible into their modern counterparts, offering a clearer understanding for today’s reader. The sequence of events is based on my own careful study and interpretation of the biblical text.
I invite you to read this as a cohesive story—an immersive journey through the prophetic unfolding of the Day of the Lord.
—Brother Thomas Taylor
Before we see the Day of the Lord unfold, we must see why Jesus comes back in wrath. The following shows us the setting in which Israel and Jerusalem find themselves.
THE STAGE IS SET: THE VALLEY OF GOD’S WRATH
A storm is gathering—brooding, global, divine.
The valley lies still for a moment longer, but not in peace. It is the Valley of Decision, where multitudes of soldiers now march toward their own judgment. The nations have gathered, not to debate, but to be weighed and found wanting. Across the hills of Megiddo, the sound of boots, wheels, and war machines echo—a trembling precursor to the Day of the LORD.
There, in that valley, the Lord Himself will enter into judgment with the armies of the earth. They have scattered His chosen people, Israel, among the nations. They have divided up His covenant land as if it were their own. And now, they stand on His soil. God’s fury is stirred.
“Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.” Joel 3:14
The leaders of this invasion are unmistakable. Ancient names rise again—Persia (Iran), Cush (Sudan), Put (Libya), Gomer (Turkey), Beth-Togarmah (regions of modern Russia and the Caucasus)—a coalition forged in hatred of Israel. Like a black storm swelling from the north, they surge across the land, armed and confident, unaware they are being drawn by God Himself into their doom.
“You will come from your place out of the remote parts of the north… like a cloud to cover the land… so that the nations may know Me when I show Myself holy through you, O Gog.” Ezekiel 38:15-16
Now Jerusalem—God’s holy city—is under siege. It has remained under Israel’s control until this moment. But now, as foretold, it becomes a burdensome stone, a flashpoint for the wrath of nations. Every nation on earth is drawn into this final conflict, encircling the city like vultures before the feast.
“They will put up a barricade against you and surround you… hem you in on every side.” Luke 19:43
“When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is near.” Luke 21:20
The siege tightens. Escape routes vanish. Panic spreads. Those who can flee to the mountains do. Those caught within the city face sword and sorrow. Jerusalem is trampled underfoot—its people exiled, its walls battered, its hopes dimming. The time of the Gentiles reaches its terrifying fulfillment.
As war grinds on, the land itself begins to mourn. Israel is stripped bare. The vine of the Lord is a wasteland. Crops have failed. Grain silos lie in ruin. The fig tree is splintered to a stump. The priests mourn, and the ministers weep—no offerings remain. Even the animals groan in hunger and confusion, their pastures scorched, their water gone.
“The field is ruined, the land mourns… the grain is ruined, the new wine has dried up, the fresh oil has failed.” Joel 1:10
“The herds of cattle wander aimlessly… even the flocks of sheep suffer.” Joel 1:18
Fire consumes the forests. Famine tightens its grip. The judgment of God breathes across the hills like a furnace wind.
And still, in the face of devastation, a flicker of mercy is offered. The Lord calls for repentance—not from the world, but from His own people. The priests and ministers are summoned to put on sackcloth and spend the night in tears. A fast is to be consecrated. A sacred assembly must be gathered. The elders of Israel and every inhabitant are to come to the house of the Lord and cry out for mercy.
“Consecrate a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly… cry out to the LORD.” Joel 1:14
The Day of the Lord is not distant—it is at the threshold. The armies are in place. The land groans. The heavens brace.
Judgment is near.
THE DAY OF THE LORD
“Woe to you who are longing for the Day of the Lord. For what purpose will the Day of the Lord be to you? It will be darkness and not light. As when a man flees from a lion and a bear confronts him. Or he goes home, leans with his hand against the wall— and a snake bites him. Will not the Day of the Lord be darkness instead of light? Even gloom, with no brightness in it?” Amos 5:18-20
Suddenly, without warning, a hushed breath stills the earth—the world unaware of the hour that falls like a thief in the night.
While they are saying, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction will come upon them like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
In resolve, Israel gathers her strength and rises to defend the holy city. Judea will fight at Jerusalem.
Storm clouds swell as the armies of the world encircle Jerusalem in a brutal, merciless siege.
All the nations will be gathered against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be taken, the houses plundered, the women raped, and half of the city exiled, but the other half of the people will not be eliminated from the city. They will level you to the ground, and throw down your children within you, and they will not leave you one stone upon another.
A blade carves through the land of Israel, and only a third of the Jewish people will emerge from the fire—refined, tested, and preserved.
That two parts of the Jewish people in Israel will be cut off and die; But a third of Jews will be left in the land.
“And I will bring the third part through the fire, Refine them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, And I will answer them; I will say, ‘They are My people,’ And they will say, ‘The LORD is my God.’” Zechariah 13:9
In anguish and awakening, a remnant lifts tear-stained eyes and cries out to the One they had forsaken: Jesus Christ their Messiah.
Israel will not see their Messiah the Lord Jesus until they say, “BLESSED IS THE ONE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!” (Matthew 23:39) And in that hour of terror and awakening, Judah and Jerusalem are pierced with conviction. Their hearts break open in repentance for the One they once rejected—their Messiah.
The very fabric of creation shudders; stars refuse to shine, and noonday becomes as midnight.
On that day there will be no light; the luminaries will die out. For it will be a unique day which is known to the LORD, neither day nor night, but it will come about that at the time of evening there will be light. A day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness.
The Lord will make the sun go down at noon, And make the earth dark in broad daylight. For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not flash their light; The sun will be dark when it rises And the moon will not shed its light.
That day is a day of anger, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness. The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky.
Suddenly, the heavens tear open, unveiling the Majestic One—glorious, unstoppable, riding to rescue then judge.
The sign of the Lord Jesus Christ will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see Him coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. The Lord rides on a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war.
His eyes are a flame of fire, and on His head are many crowns; and He has a name written on Him which no one knows except Himself. He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses.
From the Lord Jesus’ mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty. And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written: “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”
Israel’s eyes lift to the One they pierced, and a torrent of sorrow breaks upon them—grief as deep and personal as mourning an only son, a firstborn lost.
The Spirit of grace and of pleading will fall on Judea and Jerusalem so that they will look at Jesus whom they pierced; and they will mourn for Him, like one mourning for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn. On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be great.
A violent storm gathers beneath His feet, wind and fury swirling as the dust of judgment rolls across the land. In the gale and the storm is His way, And clouds are the dust beneath His feet. From the south, He approaches in fire and majesty.
Then the roar— The LORD roars from Zion and utters His voice from Jerusalem.
The heavens and the earth quake. Mountains quake because of Him, And the hills come apart; Indeed the earth is upheaved by His presence, The world and all the inhabitants in it. Who can stand before The Lord’s indignation? Who can endure the burning of His anger?
His wrath gushes forth like fire, And the rocks are broken up by Him. The mountains saw You and quaked; The downpour of waters swept by. The deep raised its voice, It lifted high its hands. The Lord will make the heavens tremble, And the earth will be shaken from its place At the fury of the LORD of armies In the day of His burning anger. The powers of the heavens will be shaken.
And then, in the stillness after the roar, a trumpet sounds from heaven, splitting sky and silence alike. The Lord Jesus Christ will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet blast, and they will gather together His elect, the Church, from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other. They will be caught up—lifted in the clouds—to meet the Lord in the air. There, they will be with Him forever. For they were not destined for wrath but for glory.
Then the wrath of the Lord Jesus Christ begins.
A jealous and avenging God is the LORD Jesus; the LORD is avenging and wrathful. The LORD takes vengeance on His adversaries, and He reserves wrath for His enemies. All the nations will drink continually. They will drink to the last drop, and become as if they had never existed.
“It will come about on that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” declares the Lord GOD, “that My fury will mount up in My anger. In My zeal and in My blazing wrath I declare that on that day there will certainly be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. The fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the animals of the field, all the crawling things that crawl on the earth, and all mankind who are on the face of the earth will shake at My presence; and the mountains will be thrown down, the steep pathways will collapse, and every wall will fall to the ground.” Ezekiel 38:18-20
The bowls of God’s wrath are poured out upon the earth, and terror follows each one.
Harmful and painful sores afflict those who bear the Mark of the Beast and worship his image.
The sea becomes as blood, thick and lifeless like that of a dead man; every living thing in it dies.
Rivers and springs turn to blood—judgment echoing through the very veins of the earth.
The sun scorches with fire; its fierce heat falls upon the people, and they blaspheme the name of God who has power over these plagues, yet they do not repent.
Darkness spreads over the throne of the Beast – the Antichrist; his world-government becomes a realm of agony, and men gnaw their tongues in pain and curse the God of Heaven.
The Lord Jesus rebukes the waters, and they shrink back before His wrath.
He dries up the sea; He dries up all the rivers. Did the LORD rage against the rivers, or was His fury against the seas? No—it was the march of His salvation, riding forth on chariots of deliverance.
The great river Euphrates dries up, preparing the way for the kings of the east. Unclean spirits like frogs emerge—demonic signs that gather the kings of the whole world to the battle of the great day of God Almighty. They are drawn to a place called in Hebrew, Armageddon.
Now the Lord Jesus comes down from His dwelling place, His steps crushing the high places of the earth. Mountains melt like wax before Him. Valleys split as water poured down a steep place. Fire goes before Him and consumes His adversaries. His lightning illumines the world. The earth trembles; the heavens declare His righteousness. All people behold His glory.
Then Christ Jesus, the Holy One, touches down.
His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east.
Before Him goes plague, and plague comes forth after Him.
The Lord GOD of armies – Jesus, the One who touches the land so that it quakes—He causes all who live in it to mourn. The land rises and falls in waves like the Nile, shaken by His approach. He stood and caused the earth to shudder; He looked and caused the nations to jump. The everlasting mountains were shattered, the ancient hills collapsed. His paths are everlasting.
As the Lord Jesus’ feet touch the mountain, the Mount of Olives splits in two from east to west, forming a vast valley. One half moves to the north, the other to the south.
Now the wrath of the Lord burns against the Palestinians —against those marked for destruction.
Jesus’ splendor covers the heavens, and the earth is full of His praise. His radiance is like the sunlight; He has rays flashing from His hand, And the hiding of His might is there.
The sword of the Lord is soaked with blood, drenched in the fat of sacrifice. For the Lord has prepared a slaughter in Bozrah – the ancient capital of Edom whose spiritual descendants are the Palestinians. Its rivers will become tar, its soil like burning brimstone. Day and night it will not be quenched—its smoke will rise forever. Desolate for all generations, no one will pass through it again.
And then He comes—majestic, fierce.
“Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah, with garments stained crimson? This One, arrayed in splendor, striding forward in the greatness of His strength?” “I am the One who speaks in righteousness, mighty to save.” “Why are Your garments red, like one who treads the winepress?” “I have trodden the winepress alone; none stood with Me. In My wrath I trampled the nations; their blood has stained My garments. The day of vengeance burned within Me; the year of My redemption had come. I looked, and there was no one to help. So My own arm brought salvation, and My fury upheld Me. I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.” Isaiah 63:1-6
And now a sword is summoned against the Antichrist—against the false shepherd.
“Awake, O sword, against the evil shepherd, and against the man who is My companion,” declares the Lord of hosts. “Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in midheaven, “Come, assemble for the great feast of God, so that you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of commanders, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all people, both free and slaves, and small and great.” Revelation 19:17-18
The end approaches for the Antichrist. The Lord will slay the lawless one with the breath of His mouth and destroy him with the radiance of His coming. The false shepherd will fall first, then his armies.
The Lord calls for a sword on all His mountains.
“You will fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops, and the peoples who are with you; I will give you as food to every kind of predatory bird and animal of the field. “You will fall on the open field; for it is I who have spoken,” declares the Lord GOD.” Ezekiel 39:4-5
The Beast – the Antichrist, and the kings of the earth, and their armies were assembled to wage war against Jesus Christ who sat on the horse and against His holy angel army. But the Beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed signs to deceive. They were thrown alive into the Lake of Fire that burns with sulfur.
The Lord Jesus will go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fights on a day of battle. In indignation He marched through the earth; In anger He trampled the nations. Jesus went forth for the salvation of His people, for the salvation of His anointed. He smashed the head of the house of evil to uncover him from foot to neck.
Confusion falls upon the invading armies. Their horses panic as they are struck with blindness; their riders are struck with madness. Judea and Jerusalem are shielded, as the enemies turn on each other.
A great panic from the Lord Jesus Christ grips them—each man lifts his hand against his brother. But when they behold Jesus, they flee through the valley by the Lord’s mountains.
The northern army is driven out of Israel —scattered to desolation. Its advance guard is cast into the eastern sea, its rear into the western sea. The stench of death rises.
Then the Lord God comes to finish the wicked of the nations—and all His holy ones with Him.
From His mouth goes forth the command, and the sword does not miss. Fire consumes, and the nations fall like dry grass. The sword cuts down; it devours like locusts.
The Lord Jesus shines in glory, and all the angels with Him. The Lord commands His consecrated warriors—mighty ones.
A roar echoes across the mountains—an uproar of nations stirred to their doom. The Lord of armies musters His host for battle. From distant lands they come—the Lord and the weapons of His wrath—to lay waste the earth.
“Wail, for the day of the LORD is near! It comes as destruction from the Almighty.” Isaiah 13:6
Terror overtakes the nations. Hands fall limp. Hearts melt.
They tremble like a woman in labor. None can stand. They will look at one another in astonishment, their faces aflame.
“Behold, the Day of the LORD comes—cruel, with fury and burning anger—to make the land a desolation. He will exterminate its sinners from it.” Isaiah 13:7-9
The Lord gathers the nations. He rises as a witness. His fury ignites the earth.
All His burning anger is poured out. The whole earth is consumed by the fire of His jealousy.
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff. The coming day will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of armies, “leaving them neither root nor branch.” Malachi 4:1
A plague consumes those who dare oppose the Lord. Now this will be the plague with which the LORD Jesus Christ will strike all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth.
Upon the Palestinians, judgment falls swift and unrelenting.
For Gaza will be abandoned, and Palestinian cities will become a desolation. Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast! The word of the LORD is against you. The Lord will eliminate the Palestinians so that there will be no inhabitants in the land.
The nation of Jordan will be overthrown as the Lord sweeps in. Moab will assuredly be like Sodom, and the sons of Amman, Jordan like Gomorrah—ground overgrown with weeds and full of salt mines, a permanent desolation. The remnant of the Lord’s people will plunder them, and the remainder of His nation will inherit them. This they will have in return for their arrogance, because they have taunted and boasted against the people of the Lord of armies.
Sudan will be slain by the Lord’s sword. And He will stretch out His hand against the north and eliminate Syria and Iraq. He will make Syria and Iraq a desolation, parched like the wilderness.
Then the sword is drawn against all who stand as enemies of the Almighty.
And the rest were killed with the sword which came from the mouth of the Lord who sat on the horse, and all the birds were filled with their flesh.
But though they run, there is no refuge.
Though they dig into hell, from there the Lord’s hand will take them. Though they ascend to heaven, from there He will bring them down. Though they hide on the summit of Carmel, He will track them and take them. Though they hide from His sight at the bottom of the sea, He will command the serpent, and it will bite them. Though they go into captivity, there too His justice finds them.
The sound of the whip, the roar of wheels, galloping horses and bounding chariots echo through the smoke of battle. Horsemen charge, swords flash, spears gleam. Many fall—an endless mass of corpses. They stumble over the dead.
The slain are thrown out. Their stench rises, and the mountains are drenched with their blood.
And the nations that dared rise against Jerusalem—every one of them—is brought low. The Lord will utterly destroy the nations that came against Judah and Jerusalem.
Then from heaven, the final bowl is poured. Flashes of lightning streak across the sky, thunder shakes the heavens, and a great earthquake rends the earth—greater than any since man first walked upon it. The great city Jerusalem is split into three. Cities of the nations fall. Babylon is remembered before God and made to drink the full cup of His wrath.
Islands vanish. Mountains are no more. Then from the sky, hailstones—each the weight of as much as 80 pounds—plummet to the earth. The plague is fierce, unbearable. Still, the people curse God for the hail, refusing repentance.
“With plague and with blood I will enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, a torrential rain, hailstones, fire, and brimstone.” Ezekiel 38:22
Then a summons goes out—to every winged creature under heaven.
“Now as for you, son of man,” declares the Lord GOD, “say to every kind of bird and to every animal of the field: ‘Assemble and come, gather from every direction to My sacrifice, which I am going to sacrifice for you as a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel; and you will eat flesh and drink blood.’” “You will eat the flesh of warriors and drink the blood of the leaders of the earth, as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls, all of them fattened livestock of Bashan. So you will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, from My sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. You will eat your fill at My table with horses and charioteers, with warriors and all the men of war,” declares the Lord GOD. Ezekiel 39:17-20
The battlefield, once vibrant with resistance, now lies in ruin—nearly no soul remains to draw breath.
The Lord will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their wrongdoing; He will also put an end to the audacity of the proud and humiliate the arrogance of the tyrants. He will make mortal man scarcer than pure gold.
Judgment is not confined to Jerusalem alone—it sweeps across nations and continents.
The Lord will send a sword upon Egypt, and there will be trembling in Sudan. When the slain fall in Egypt, they will take away her wealth, and her foundations will be torn down. Sudan, Libya, Turkey, all Arabia, and the people of the land that are in league will fall with them by the sword.
Then silence and awe sweep across the broken earth.
It has ended.
God’s wrath is appeased.
In the wake of destruction, the people of Israel come face-to-face with their Redeemer.
And someone will say to the Lord Jesus Christ, ‘What are these wounds between Your arms?’ Then He will say, ‘Those with which I was wounded at the house of My friends.
A fountain flows—clear, purifying, washing away the filth of sin.
A fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for defilement. And on that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea; it will be in summer as well as in winter.
The LORD will be King over all the earth; on that day the LORD will be the only one, and His name the only one.
All the land will change into a plain south of Jerusalem; but Jerusalem will rise above. People will live in it, and there will no longer be a curse, for Jerusalem will live in security. Never again will Israel be a disgrace among the nations.
“Shout for joy, daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, Israel! Rejoice and triumph with all your heart, Daughter of Jerusalem! The LORD has taken away His judgments against you, He has cleared away your enemies. The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; You will no longer fear disaster. On that day it will be said to Jerusalem: “Do not be afraid, Zion; Do not let your hands fall limp. “The LORD your God is in your midst, A victorious warrior. He will rejoice over you with joy, He will be quiet in His love, He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.” Zephaniah 3:14-17
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Notations:
Principle verses proving the preceding rapture happens on the SAME DAY AS God’s wrath: Luk 17:26-32 NASB “And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so will it also be in the days of the Son of Man: (27) people were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, and they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. (28) “It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, and they were building; (29) but on the day that Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. (30) “It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed. (31) “On that day, the one who will be on the housetop, with his goods in the house, must not go down to take them out; and likewise the one in the field must not turn back. (32) “Remember Lot’s wife.
