New Testament the day is associated with Christ as well as with the Father (Phil. 1:6, etc.), and it is referred to in a variety of ways. The idea of judgment remained (‘the day of judgment’ is one of the ways of referring to it, as in 2 Pet. 2:9), but the emphasis is on the judgment of the individual rather than on that of the nations. It is made clear that ‘each of us will give an account of himself to God’ (Rom. 14:12). Paul makes his reference to its arrival more vivid with his use of the present