On that day…

 On that day….

Looking back over life, there are many days that I can pinpoint as huge… they were events I could say, “on that day” a particular thing happened, important, catastrophic, life changing, memorable…

Or look forward on a calendar, writing down, “Lord willing” this or that will take place “on that day “…marriages, births, deaths, world changing events, life changing events…small things, big things…

Finishing Zechariah,  the phase kept coming up, “on that day” over and over…so I had to “rabbit trail” it…it is used the most in that book, and the most  times in the prophets, both major and minor…

But looking at the whole Bible…these are a few examples….

On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

Genesis 15:18

 On that day the Lord  exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they stood in awe of him just as they had stood in awe of Moses, all the days of his life.

Joshua 4:14 

And Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’ 

So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the Lord will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the Lord said.”

Joshua 14:9,12

So on that day God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the people of Israel. 

Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day: “That the leaders took the lead in Israel, that the people offered themselves willingly, bless the Lord!

Judges 4:23,5:1-2 

Then on that day David first appointed that thanksgiving be sung to the Lord by Asaph and his brothers.

1 Chronicles 16:7 

On that day they read from the Book of Moses in the hearing of the people. And in it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,

Nehemiah 13:1 

On that day King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her. 

A copy of what was written was to be issued as a decree in every province, being publicly displayed to all peoples, and the Jews were to be ready on that day to take vengeance on their enemies.

Esther 8:1,13 

On that day the Lord will punish the host of heaven, in heaven, and the kings of the earth, on the earth.

Isaiah 24:21 

“On that day I will cause a horn to spring up for the house of Israel, and I will open your lips among them. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 29:21 

And the Lord will be king over all the earth. On that day the Lord will be one and his name one.

Zechariah 14:9 

31 On that day, let the one who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away, and likewise let the one who is in the field not turn back.

Luke 17:31

There are at least 18 times that the phase “on that day” is used in Zechariah…both good and bad things…

It was an interesting “rabbit trail”…God has a timeline, we are part of it…the whole world is a part of it…He has a plan…and that is comforting when we have doubts…He is in control through all of the days…

Thank YOU….