For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
"Just as the word ’day’ in Genesis 1:5 has both a broad sense (a 24-hour day-’And the evening and the morning were the first day’) and a narrow sense (the light part of a 24-hour day in contrast with the darkness part-’And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night’)-so the expression ’the Day of the Lord’ has both a broad and a narrow sense in relationship to the future." [Note: Showers, Maranatha . . ., p. 35.] 