The day of the Lord

Two questions. What the Lord is near means in Philippians 4:5. Keener leans toward God's nearness to his people, who hears them when they cry out (Deuteronomy 4:7; Psalm 145:18), though it could refer to his coming. The ESV Study Bible reads it of his return as judge. The cultural backgrounds notes and the CSB Study Bible allow both. Second, whether the day names only the end of history. The CSB Study Bible links the day of the Lord in 1 Thessalonians 5:2 with the great tribulation of the end. The prophets used such language for disasters that struck Jerusalem within history. Wright reads it as giving events their meaning before God, so Paul can see near events through the lens of the final judgment. Wright and Bird draw the same conclusion from 2 Thessalonians 2:2: since some believed the day had already come, it cannot have meant the end of the world. The ESV Study Bible treats the day and the second coming as one event, and the Zondervan dictionary has the day begin at the second coming and run through the final judgment.

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