1:10 What does the phrase "the day of Jesus Christ" refer to here?
1:10 What does the phrase "the day of Jesus Christ" refer to here?
(cp also 1Cor 1:7-8, 5:5, 15:20-23; 2Cor 1:14; Php 1:6, 2:16; 1Th 2:19, 3:13, 5:23; 2Th 2:1; 2Ti 1:12; Jas 5:7; 1Jn 2:28).
Together with Php 1:10 these scriptures all refer to the first resurrection, when Jesus comes again to take all the saints of God, Old Testament and New Testament alike, both living and dead, back to heaven with him (cp Jn 14:1-3; 1Cor 15:51-58; 1Th 4:13-18; Rev 3:10; 20:6).
See also comments on Lk 21:36, Jn 5:28-29, 14:1-3; Ro 14:10-12; 1Cor 1:8, 15:51-58, Php 1:6; 1Th 4:13-18; 2Th 2:7; Rev 19:11-21, 20:6.