The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

prophetic contexts it applies to the Lord’s intervention into one’s tribulations and trials with His help and rescue. 351. Day of the Lord—A generally apocalyptic term that speaks to the times in human history and cosmogony when Creator God interjects His wrath, His will, or a scheduled event that is ordained to interact with or overrun the normal course of earthly affairs. Usually, when the Bible uses this phrase, it pertains to the Lord’s reservation of His wrath and its outpourings for a specific period in human history, ordinarily the end of a prescribed cycle of events that led up to His ire. Hence, the phrase the day of the Lord is not only apocalyptic, it is prophetic. In visions and dreams it is seen as violent cosmic wars, catastrophic weather, or earthly calamities such as plagues, famine, pestilence, or drought. Isaiah 2:12, 13:6, 9; Amos 5:18–20. In the New Testament, see 1 Thessalonians 5:2; 2 Peter 3:10; 1 Corinthians 5:5; 2 Peter 3:8; Jeremiah 46:10. 352. Daystar—Found only in 2 Peter 1:19, this word is synonymous with the morning star and, as such, the planet Venus. The word literally means “light bearer” and refers to the love star or the star of love. It speaks to revelry in the life given by the Lord Jesus Christ. Daystar pertains to the illuminator, the revelator, the declarer of truth, and enlightenment of mental knowledge. It refers as well to the prophesier from within. The daystar Peter was thinking of was the one who teaches from the spirit to the spirit, He who affirms and maintains the inner man. Daystar, speaking to the prophetic word, is rhema and the logos combined. Daystar is the star that resides in the day as well as illuminates the darkness. Revelation now says the title and function belongs to Jesus Christ. 353. Deacon—A minister in the New Testament church. 1 Timothy 3:8–13. 354. Death (Natural)—The question of death has occupied its victims’ survivors, and perplexed thinkers and students since Cain’s slaughter of Abel. Why do people die and how do they die? For ages, scientists and scholars have sought to answer the two questions, only outweighed by a third one, what happens after people die? For its answer, see Afterlife. Natural death is a direct consequence of spiritual death even if it takes years for the physical body to succumb to the death conditioning of the human spirit. Dying then is an utter cessation of the physical body due to the departure or otherwise expending its life force, the spirit. See James 2:26. While Adam was not made with eternal life, that which Jesus Christ brought to earth and left His church in the form of the New Birth, he did have immortal life, that is, life that continues to breed life