1:8 What does the phrase "In the day of our Lord Jesus Christ" refer to here?
1:8 What does the phrase "In the day of our Lord Jesus Christ" refer to here?
(CP also 1Cor 1: 7; 5:5; 15:20-23; 2Cor 1:14; Php 1:6,10; 2:16; 1Th 2:19; 3:13; 5:23; 2Th 2:1; 2Ti 1:12; Jas 5:7; 1Jn 2:28).
In the day of our Lord Jesus Christ refers to the time when Jesus comes again to take all the saints of God, both living and dead, back to heaven with Him at the first resurrection (CP Jn 14:1-3; 1 Cor 15:51-58; 1Th 4:13-18; Rev 3:10; 20:6).
The first resurrection is when Christ comes back for His saints.
This is not to be confused with Christ's second coming when He comes back with the saints and defeats Antichrist and his army at the battle of Armageddon, at the end of the Great Tribulation (CP Isa 63:1-6; Dan 2:44-45; 7:13-14,18,27; Joel 3:1-21; Zech 14:1-5,9,16-21; Mt 24:27-44; 25:31-46; Mk 13:24-27; Lu 21:25-28; 2Th 1: 7-10; Jude 14-15; Rev 1:7; 19:11-21).
See also comments on Lu 21:36, Jn 5:28-29, 14:1-3, Ro 14:10-12, 1Cor 15:51-58, 1Th 4:13-18, 2Th 2:7, Rev 19:11-21, 20:6 and author's study The Rapture in his book Foundational Truths of the Christian Faith.