ROMANS # 354, Without Salvation, we are powerless against Sin and Evil in Satan's world. (8-15-24)

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The day of the Lord uses the same illustration of a thief to show how people will be surprised when it comes.

1 Thessalonians 5:1 Now as to the times and the epochs, brethren, you have no need of anything to be written to you. 2) For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night. 3) While they are saying, "Peace and safety!" then destruction will come up-on them suddenly like birth pangs upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 4) But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day (the rapture) should overtake (v.ams) you like a thief; 5) for you are all sons of light and sons of day (positionally). We are not of night nor of dark-ness; 6) so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober. 7) For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night. 8) But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation/deliverance. 9) For God has not destined us for wrath (in the Tribulation), but for obtaining salvation/deliverance through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10) who died for us, that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him. 10) Therefore encourage one another, and build up one another, just as you also are doing.