But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.
Some posttribulationists say the day of the Lord here refers only to the second coming of Christ. [Note: Ladd, pp. 92-94.] However in the context this day will be a time when God will pour out His wrath on unbelievers (1 Thessalonians 5:3-9). While this could refer to the judgments that will take place at Christ’s second coming, it seems more likely to refer to the judgments of the Tribulation (cf. Matthew 24:5-28; Revelation 6:16-17). [Note: Reese, pp. 172-73.] Gundry contended that the day of the Lord begins after the Tribulation but before Armageddon. [Note: Gundry, p. 95.] However this means that none of the judgments before Armageddon are judgments of the day of the Lord, a conclusion that few interpreters, posttribulational as well as pretribulational, have accepted. [Note: See Paul D. Feinberg, "Dispensational Theology and the Rapture," in Issues in Dispensationalism, pp. 225-45, for a critique of Gundry’s view, the views of posttribulationists Douglas J. Moo and William E. Bell, and the view of midtribulationist Gleason F. Archer.] 