{"id":353144,"date":"2026-10-02T07:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/?p=353144"},"modified":"2026-10-05T17:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:32:20","slug":"the-day-of-the-lord-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/post\/the-day-of-the-lord-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day of the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #f2f8fc; padding: 2em; border-left: 5px solid #ccc; margin: 1em 0;\"><p>Consecrate a fast,<br \/>\nCall\u00a0a sacred assembly;<br \/>\nGather the elders<br \/>\nAnd\u00a0all the inhabitants of the land<br \/>\nInto\u00a0the house of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0your God,<br \/>\nAnd cry out to the\u00a0Lord.<br \/>\nAlas for the day!<br \/>\nFor\u00a0the day of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0is\u00a0at hand;<br \/>\nIt shall come as destruction from the Almighty. (Joel 1:14-15)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nWoe to those who are scattered and love the things of the world, thinking that the day of the Lord&#8217;s coming is delayed.<\/p>\n<p>He gave us the Word that the glorious day is near when He will come to take His Church. All are called to cry out at the Altar, ask for forgiveness, and be reconciled with God.<\/p>\n<p>There are those who do not believe, who will be left behind and will suffer the great tribulation.<\/p>\n<p>However, He will come for those who await Him, sanctify His Name, wait for Him with faith in His promises, and live in purity and faithfulness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Consecrate a fast, Call\u00a0a sacred assembly; Gather the elders And\u00a0all the inhabitants of the land Into\u00a0the house of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0your God, And cry out to the\u00a0Lord. Alas for the day! For\u00a0the day of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0is\u00a0at hand; It shall come as destruction from the Almighty. (Joel 1:14-15) &nbsp; Woe to those who are scattered and love the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":353157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6248,377],"tags":[],"site":[],"class_list":["post-353144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ester-bezerra","category-women"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353158,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353144\/revisions\/353158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353144"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=353144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}