If you and I today would even see how God feels about our sin, it wouldn't be pretty.

Dr. Tony Evans says we may not be able to completely grasp it now, but that day is coming.

And God will fully show you how sinful sin is in his eyes

when the wrath of God is fully displayed

in the day of the Lord.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and president of the Urban Alternative.

Biblical Pro and president of the Urban Alternative.

biblical prophecy tells us that in the end, God wins, and his kingdom lasts forever.

But it also says there are some pretty scary things destined to happen along the way.

Dr Evans will tell us about one of them today as he explores the coming tribulation.

Let's join him.

The day of the Lord is a synonym for the tribulation. The tribulation is a seven year period of time of the display of God's wrath on the earth.

It is called the day of the Lord in contrast to the day of man.

You and I today are living in the day of man, not the day of man. You and I today are living in the day of man, not the day of the Lord. The day of

man is when God gives men the free choice to choose him or reject him or to face his passive wrath. A

description of the day of the Lord is given in Zephania Chapter 1.

Now that's one of those books that's hard to find if you don't know your Bible.

But in Zephania, chapter 1, the author of the prophet describes the day of the Lord,

and I want you to see how serious this is. In verse 14 he says, near is the great day of the Lord.

Near and coming very quickly.

Listen, the day of the Lord.

In it, the warrior cries out bitterly.

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