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1 Thessalonians 5:2-5 – Is Jesus Coming Like A Thief?
Is Jesus Coming Like A Thief? (A Prayer Commentary on 1 Thessalonians 5:2-5)
TEXT – “For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. When they say, “Peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you, brothers and sisters, are not in the dark, for this day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all children of light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or the darkness.” (CSB’17 1 Thessalonians 5:2-5)
DEVOTIONAL – Life must be read in context. A friend of mine, Weldon Adair, who is awaiting the resurrection, was fond of reminding people just because everyone knows it, doesn’t make it true. Our text also teaches, just because one verse uses a word or phrase, doesn’t mean it can’t be used differently by someone else (or used the same but we don’t understand either). And a third lesson is, don’t just read one verse and think you’ve got the contextual meaning. So here we go: Is Jesus’s 2nd Coming going to be like a thief in the night? Every Bible student says,, “yes” and cites Matthew 24:43, 2 Peter 3:10, and Revelation 16:15. I challenge you to read those again and compare Paul’s inspired commentary in 1 Thessalonians 5. Jesus is coming like a thief in the night…for those unprepared, living in the dark. But believers are not children of the dark. This coming won’t surprise those who live in the day light. The context of our lives is in awareness that the Father is waiting to send Jesus, and when He comes, we don’t see a thief. We are waiting on someone we know is coming. Jesus isn’t a thief to us, stealing from us, because we’ve given ourselves to our Savior. Jesus is our long, awaited, friend.
PRAYER – Maranatha , our Lord come. Come quickly friend. We are waiting. Amen.
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