Resurrection Life of Jesus Church By John S. Torell and Charles M. Thorell
“For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?” (Revelation 6:17)
“The great day” is a phrase echoing the Old Testament concept of “the day of the Lord” reiterating the words of the prophets Joel, Isaiah, and Zephaniah. The “day” refers to a decisive divine intervention in judgment. Labeling it “great” intensifies its magnitude.
“Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.” (Joel 2:1-2)
“The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?” (Joel 2:10-11)
“And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.” (Joel 2:30-31)
“Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.” (Isaiah 13:6)
“Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.” (Isaiah 13:9-10)
“The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness.” (Zephaniah 1:14-15)
Did you also notice the possessiveness of “His wrath?”
“For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?” (Revelation 6:17)
This is not an impersonal catastrophe. It is not fate, nor is it a random cosmic collapse. It is wrath against sinners. As verse 16 specifies, “The wrath of the Lamb” is one of the most striking phrases. The Lamb is a symbol of sacrifice, meekness, redemption, but now it is turned into the executor of judgment. The One who offered salvation now enforces righteous justice. The rejection of grace does not eliminate judgment; rather, it intensifies the accountability.
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