Answers To Correspondents

QUES. 14.-Is it correct, and according to Scripture, to pray to the Holy Spirit?

ANS.-We have no precedent, or example, of it in Scripture. -"Why ? We suggest the following:The Holy Spirit is with and in the saints here (Jno. 14 :16, 17), and it is He who inclines and guides our minds and hearts in what is according to God (Rom. 8:26; Jude 20). He guides and points us, not to Himself, but to Christ and the Father (Jno. 16:13-15) ; He produces and helps in our souls these petitions and longings according to God (Rom. 8:27, 28).

QUES. 15.-Does "the day of the Lord" include the time or period of "the Great Tribulation" and the Millennium?

ANS.-In considering every passage where " the day of the Lord" is found in Scripture (see Cruden's Concordance under " Day "- "day of the Lord"), it will be seen that they refer to times of judgment, when the Lord shall deal (1) with His people Israel, returned to their land ; (2) with the nations of the earth, to deliver it from "the bondage of corruption;" and (3) to establish His kingdom in righteousness, with Israel as the center of blessing. For (1) see Isa., chaps, 3and 4; Zech. 12:9-14; Rom. 9:27-29, etc. For (2) see Ps. 2; Isa. 34:1-4 ; Rev. 19:19-21, etc. For (3) see Ps. 110; Isa. 11; Rom. 11:25-29, etc.

In 2 Pet. 3:10 " the day of the Lord " is applied to the dissolution of the heavens and earth that now are (the atmospheric heavens, no doubt, as in Gen. 1:6-8),and recast them into the new and permanent earth and heavens.

The millennial kingdom therefore hardly comes under the designation of "the day of the Lord."