[Olog-hai]

Just be careful not to pray for the wrong things or in the wrong spirit.

Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. / As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. / Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? …

— Amos 5:18-20

Read the following verses, too.

[huldah1776]

Lamentations is the book to read before we pray for the wrath of God to be fulfilled on earth. I am a post-tribber, my hope being the peace of the world when the Messiah rules from Jerusalem, but I sweat bullets thinking about what happens before. As devastating as reading that a 15 yr old boy in Utah murdered his 10 and 4 year old adopted brothers. Sickeningly saddened. It was the violence of man that God regretted and sent the flood. And now we have world wide women’s health care — world wide child sacrifice.

Any theologians out there who can summarize a thought about the difference between personal judgment before the throne and when NATIONS are judged? After death vs during life? Anyone do any studies on that?

[fidelis]

"Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of persons ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be kindled and dissolved, and the elements will melt with fire!" (2 Peter 3:11-12)

In the New Testament we are told, not only to wait for the Day of the Lord, but to "hasten" it-- help it come faster. How do we do that? By fasting, prayer and living lives of holiness before our God.