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195 to the “Mount of the Appointed Time,” the place “on the northern slopes,” and had this to say to the king who had set himself up on it: “Behold, the Day of the Lord cometh with pitiless fury and wrath, to lay the earth desolate and destroy the sinners upon it.” He, too, compared what is about to hap- pen to the Deluge, recalling the time when the “Lord came as a destroying tempest of mighty waves,” and described (Usaiah 13: 10,13) the coming Day as a celestial occurrence that will affect the Earth: The stars of heaven and its constellations shall not give their light; the Sun shall be darkened at its rising and the Moon shall not shine its light . . . The heavens shall be agitated and the Earth in its place will be shaken; When the Lord of Hosts shall be crossing on the day of his wrath. Most noticeable in this prophecy is the identification of the Day of the Lord as the time when “the Lord of Hosts”— the celestial, the planetary lord—“shall be crossing.” This is the very language used in Enuma elish when it describes how the invader that battled Tiamat came to be called NIB- IRU: “Crossing shall be its name!” Following Isaiah, the Prophet Hosea also foresaw the Day of the Lord as a day when Heaven and Earth shall “respond” to each other—a day of celestial phenomena resonating on Earth. As we continue to examine the prophecies chronologi- cally, we find that in the seventh century B.c.E. the prophetic pronouncements became more urgent and more explicit: the Day of the Lord shall be a Day of Judgment upon the nations, Israel included, but primarily upon Assyria for what it has done and upon Babylon for what it will do, and the Day is approaching, it is near— The great Day of the Lord is approaching— It is near! The Day of the Lord