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· 4 viewsA period of 24 hours or, as distinct from night, the period of daylight. The term may also be used more generally to refer to a point in time. Daylight is used figuratively to describe the illumination afforded to believers, who are urged to use the opportunities it presents and to avoid the evil usually associated with darkness.
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Day and daylight
Day and daylight
Day as a period of 24 hours
Day as a period of 24 hours
Ge 1:8; Mt 20:19; Jn 4:43; Jn 11:6
Day as the period of daylight
Day as the period of daylight
God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
See also Ge 1:14–18; Ge 8:22; Ps 74:16; Je 33:20
Daylight gives opportunity for activity
Daylight gives opportunity for activity
A time for human endeavour
A time for human endeavour
Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”
See also Jos 10:12–13; Ac 27:29
A time of spiritual opportunity
A time of spiritual opportunity
We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
See also Jn 12:35–36
Daylight allows things to be seen
Daylight allows things to be seen
Daylight activities are seen by all
Daylight activities are seen by all
2 Sa 12:11–12; Eze 12:3–4; Mt 10:27
Examples of those avoiding daylight
Examples of those avoiding daylight
Jdg 6:27 Gideon; Jn 3:2 Nicodemus
Daylight activities should be decent
Daylight activities should be decent
The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.
See also Eph 5:8–14; 1 Th 5:5–8; 2 Pe 2:13
Six working days ordained
Six working days ordained
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
Particular days of the week
Particular days of the week
The Sabbath (Saturday)
The Sabbath (Saturday)
Ex 20:8–10 The Sabbath was reckoned from sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday.
See also Lk 4:16; Col 2:16; Heb 4:4
The Day of Preparation for the Sabbath (Friday)
The Day of Preparation for the Sabbath (Friday)
Mk 15:42; Jn 19:31
The first day of the week (Sunday)
The first day of the week (Sunday)
On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.
See also Mk 16:2; Mk 16:9; 1 Co 16:2; Re 1:10
Festival days
Festival days
Le 23:5–6 Passover and Unleavened Bread; Le 23:27–28 the Day of Atonement
The Feast of Tabernacles:
The Feast of Tabernacles:
Le 23:34–36; Jn 7:37
Nu 28:26 the day of firstfruits
Day as a point in time
Day as a point in time
The day of salvation
The day of salvation
For he says,
“In a favorable time I listened to you,
and in a day of salvation I have helped you.”
Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
See also Is 25:9; Is 49:8
God sends the day of disaster
God sends the day of disaster
Dt 32:35; Je 17:18; Je 51:2; Mk 13:19
God helps on the day of distress
God helps on the day of distress
In the day of my trouble I call upon you,
for you answer me.
See also Ge 35:3; 2 Sa 22:19; 2 Ki 19:3–4; Ps 94:13; Je 17:17
The final days of time
The final days of time
The last days
The last days
“ ‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares,
that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh,
and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
and your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams;
even on my male servants and female servants
in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.
See also Joe 2:28–29; Is 2:2; Ho 3:5; 1 Ti 4:1; 2 Ti 3:1; Heb 1:2; 1 Pe 1:20
The day of the Lord
The day of the Lord
Behold, the day of the Lord comes,
cruel, with wrath and fierce anger,
to make the land a desolation
and to destroy its sinners from it.
For the stars of the heavens and their constellations
will not give their light;
the sun will be dark at its rising,
and the moon will not shed its light.
I will punish the world for its evil,
and the wicked for their iniquity;
I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant,
and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless.
A day of salvation for God’s people:
A day of salvation for God’s people:
Je 30:7–9; Zep 3:16–17; Php 1:6; 2 Ti 1:12
A day of wrath and judgment:
A day of wrath and judgment:
Joe 2:1–2; Ob 15; Zep 1:14–15
The day will come unexpectedly:
The day will come unexpectedly:
1 Th 5:2; 2 Pe 3:10
The last day
The last day
And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
See also Jn 11:24; Jn 12:48
References to specific periods of days at the end of history
References to specific periods of days at the end of history
Da 12:11–12; Re 11:3; Re 12:6
God’s different perception of time
God’s different perception of time
But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
See also Ps 90:4