Besides the ordinary use of the word “day” to mean a 24-hour period of time, the word is also used in Scripture to identify a period in time. For example, we read of “that day” and “the great day,” and we speak of the day of grace, the day (or dispensation) of law, and the millennial day.
God does everything in an orderly way according to His own schedule. His dealings with man were all scheduled according to His purposes from eternity past and will continue on to their perfect eternal results. Like the day, month and year cycles of time, so He has organized his dealings into periods of activity and ways that His Word refers to as “days” and sometimes as “dispensations.”
In this issue we focus on “the day of the Lord” and two other days related to it, man’s day and the day of God. Now God is allowing man to have his day — a day of confusion, disorder and unrighteousness. Soon God will tell the Lord that it is time for Him to bring the whole of creation by His power into a state of order and righteousness and then reign. At the end of that day, all sin and all the results of sin will be removed, and then the Son will turn over the results of His work to God for His eternal day to abide with man and rest in His love.