23. Nothing is more common in the Word than for the word 'day' to be used to mean the particular time at which events take place, as in Isaiah,

The day of Jehovah is near. Behold, the day of Jehovah comes. I will make heaven tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place, on the day of My fierce anger. Its time is close at hand, and its days will not be prolonged. Isaiah 13:6, 9, 13, 22.

And in the same prophet,

Her antiquity is in the days of antiquity. On that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. Isaiah 23:7, 15.

Since 'day' stands for the particular time it also stands for the state associated with that particular time, as in Jeremiah, Woe to us, for the day has declined, for the shadows of evening have lengthened! Jeremiah 6:4

And in the same prophet,

If you break My covenant that is for the day and My covenant that is for the night, so that there is neither daytime nor night at their appointed time. Jeremiah 33:20, 25.

Also,

Renew our days as of old. Lamentations 5:21.

6823. The Lord's kingdom is the neighbour in a higher degree than the Church in which anyone is born, for the Lord's kingdom is made up of all those who are governed by good both on earth and in heaven. This means that the Lord's kingdom consists in good, which includes all kinds of good in their entirety. When this good is loved so are individual persons who are governed by good. Thus the whole, that is, all good in its entirety, constitutes the neighbour in the first degree. It constitutes the Grand Man, which was the subject at the ends of quite a number of chapters, the Man who is an image representative of the Lord Himself. This Man, which is the Lord's kingdom, is loved when from deepest affection good is done to those who are by means of that Man made truly human by the Lord, thus those among whom the Lord's kingdom is established.