In 2 Peter 3:12, Peter refers to the moment of eschatological judgment as "the day of God," which is a tad unusual since it is usually called in Scripture "the day of the Lord." This is because it will be marked by the return of Christ the Lord in glory, and will be the occasion on which he judges the quick living and the dead. In the New Testament, "God" most often refers to the Father, and "the Lord" to the Son; "the day of the Lord" belongs to the Son and thus is the eschatological Lord's Day.
Although Calvin doesn't give the reference, I think he explains the anomalous term rightly when he says Peter is thinking of 1 Corinthians 15:20-28 and the fact that the Son, when he has won the final victory over all his enemies, will "deliver the kingdom to God the Father" (1 Cor 15:24). In other words, what begins as the day of the Lord will conclude as the day of God.
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