![]() It’s good we don’t have to wait until we are mature - especially since we never arrive. God uses us in our maturing and learning process. “Some people preach Christ out of pretense.” If God can use a donkey in the OT to spread the truth, He can use us. Phil 1 is a great passage to keep in mind. Luke 17:37 shows that those that are taken will go where the vultures are - i.e. People still get saved from the The Thief in the Night movie, but it is not biblically correct. ![]() “I wish we’d all been ready.” Larry Norman wrote a song about that for a the movie called The Thief in the Night, but he pulled the phrase out of context. ![]() The appearance of the thief in the night is to judge! - Not to deliver by means of the rapture. The Problemįor those who are alive at the Second Advent of Christ to the earth, what will keep them from being surprised by the “thief-in-the-night” appearance of the Son of Man who will execute His judgment upon the unbelievers of that time? The time of arrival for the Son of Man is unknown as is likened to a thief arriving in the middle of the night. As in the previous parable, watchfulness is the byword of belief. Then, after all were inside the ark and the door was shut, it started to rain for the first time in history. So, when Noah said it was going to flood, they thought he was crazy. The days of Noah with the sudden judgment is used as the illustration of the danger of being caught off guard by the unexpected time of its arrival. Discussion about Tribulation, Second Coming of Christ, parable of the fig tree, then the discussion about the days of Noah.
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