of God periods of time, and intervening events, may lie hid, but it remains true that in the ordinary usage of Scripture the expression is a warning or appeal to the man who is, at any time, living. The new day, the “day of Christ,” must of necessity precede the great tribulation. Not only is there no hint of such a time of triumph, joy, and reward during the great tribulation, but the events to follow that awful time are so described as to exclude the possibility of the occurrence of the