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To: tlb

1 Thessalonians 5
The Day of the Lord
1 Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, 2 for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.


41 posted on 05/07/2011 10:49:56 PM PDT by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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To: DaveTesla

Now CUT THAT OUT!

You’re only the 5,239th person in my life who’s misused those two verses.

You err in that you stop too soon, and so mistakenly think the passage (addressed to Christians, as it is), is saying that The Church will all just be totally taken by surprise at Jesus’ coming.

I say to you with utmost emphasis: NO, SHE WILL NOT.

Read on...

4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

The passage makes a stark contrast between believers and unbelievers as regards awareness of the coming of the Day of The LORD. Those for whom that day comes “as a thief in the night” are referred to in v. 3 as “they”; that is in contrast to “ye” — the church, to whom the epistle is addressed.

3 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.

Now comes v. 4 to draw the sharp contrast

4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

THEY — the unbelieving — are caught completely unaware.
YE — the believers — are awake, in the light, watching.

PLEASE, do not any longer use just vv 1 and 2 to try and portray that God is even keeping believers totally in the fog about the coming of the end; that is absolutely untrue.


51 posted on 05/08/2011 12:02:44 AM PDT by HKMk23 (A free man unarmed is just a slave on borrowed time.)
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