The Wrath of God is known as the Day of the Lord.
"Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: And they shall be afraid: PANGS AND SORROWS shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with WRATH and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it." Isaiah 13:6-9
So here we see that the Day of the Lord is a time of wrath and filled with pains (pangs) and sorrows. So is it for the entire Tribulation period? Yes it is. Listen to what our Lord Jesus says.
"And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows." Matthew 24:3-8
Note that these things are only the "beginning of sorrows" and as we have seen in Isaiah that the time of sorrows is the Day of the Lord. In Matthew 24 (above) we also see that this is the same order as the four horsemen of apocalypse which is the start of the Tribulation period (Day of the Lord). The white horse of the antichrist and the apostasy followed by the red horse of war and etc.
So what is seen here is that the Day of the Lord is the Tribulation and begins just as the antichrist comes to power. The Day of the Lord is the entire Tribulation period and is also called the time of Jacob's (Israel) Troubles. Now are we the Church going to go through the Tribulation? If you want to know, just answer the following questions.
Ro 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness.
Are you holding the truth in unrighteousness?
Ro 2:5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.
Is your heart hardened?
Ro 2:8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath.
Do you deny the truth and obey unrighteousness?
Ro 4:15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Are you still under the law?
Ro 13:4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Do you work evil?
If your answer to all the above questions is no, then you are not going to go through the tribulation. Why is because we are now,
" ...justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him." Ro 5:9
1Th 5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.
When we accept Jesus Christ as our Saviour, we are saved from the wrath of the Tribulation to come.
1Th 1:10 ...wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
Keep Looking Up!
Richard Vizzutti
