My thesis is that we will miss what the Lord is telling us in these various passages if we fail to recognize that the day of the Lord Jesus is His Judgment Seat. It will also show that even the single word day ( hémera in Greek) often refers to the Bema.įor years I missed the point of all these texts because I didn’t understand these important truths.
This study will examine those expressions and will show that they indeed refer to the Judgment Seat of Christ. He said that the expressions the day of the Lord Jesus and the day of Christ always refer to the Judgment Seat of Christ, the Bema, and never to the Tribulation. Mayhue suggested that there are similar expressions using the words day and Lord that do not carry that meaning.
He suggested that the day of the Lord has been (in the OT) and will be (in the Tribulation) a time of judgment followed by a time of blessing for Israel.Īs an aside, Dr. Richard Mayhue speak on the day of the Lord.
Several years ago at a Pre-Trib Study Group Conference I heard Dr.