A thief in the night?
“Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.” - Matthew 25:13
“Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.” - Mark 13:35-37
We often hear of Christ coming as a thief in the night. To those who live in darkness and in sin, Christ will come as a thief, he will catch them quite unawares. As followers of Christ dwelling in the Light we will be on our guard watching and praying. We will see the trees shooting forth their tender leaves and know that the summer is “nigh at hand” (See Luke 21:29-36, Mark 13:28-37, also see Matthew 24:45-50).
“But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.” - 1 Thessalonians 5:1-7
“But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.” - 1 Peter 4:7
“But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” - Matthew 24:37-39
“Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.” - Matthew 24:42
“Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.” -Luke 21:36
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