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Let's begin with a word of prayer,
all right? Our Father, we're just grateful
to be here tonight and to just enjoy each other's company, spend
some time together in fellowship, but also just around your word,
which is so precious to us, Lord, and we're thankful for that.
And as we're looking at you coming again, Lord, we're excited about
that, looking forward to it, desire to be with you, and we're
grateful for the mercy and grace that you've extended to us, Lord.
Just guide us along tonight, we pray now, in Jesus' name,
amen. So, finished chapter four last week of 1 Thessalonians.
But I think we'll start, just read a little of four and then
work into five. That's where we're going tonight.
So let's get to 1 Thessalonians 4, 16. For a little bit of a
head start. 1 Thessalonians chapter four and
verse 16. For the Lord himself will descend
from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel,
and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ
will be raised first. Then we who are alive, who are
left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet
the Lord in the air. So we will always be with the
Lord. Therefore, encourage one another
with these words. Now concerning the times and
the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written
to you, for you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the
Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying
there is peace and security, then sudden destruction will
come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and
they will not escape. But you are not in darkness,
brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are
all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the
night or the darkness. So then, let us not sleep as
others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. For those who sleep,
sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night.
But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on
the breastplate of faith and love for a helmet and the hope
of salvation. For God has not destined us for
wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Starting in verse one then. Now concerning the times and
the seasons. Times and the seasons, brothers,
you have no need to have anything written to you. The word time
there is chronos in the Greek. We would get chronograph from
that, timepiece. Okay, so pretty easy to think
about that. The seasons is more the character
of the season. And the way I would liken it
to would be Let me ask this question. What would be the season of 1940
to 1945? I gave you the time. He said war. And more distinctly,
we'd say World War II, right? You see, we've got the time,
40 to 45, and the season, World War, OK? we might say 2020 to
2022 was the season of COVID, right? So we see the times and
the seasons, okay? I think that helps us kind of
understand that. Let's go over to Luke 21, where
we have some more talk about times, okay? Luke 21, 24. They will fall by the edge of
the sword and be led captive among all nations. This is speaking
about the Jews. And Jerusalem will be trampled
underfoot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are
fulfilled. So we're living in the times
of the Gentiles, which most people would say probably started in
586 when Nebuchadnezzar last sacked Jerusalem. They've really been under Gentile
rule since then. And we're still in it today,
and will be until probably the rapture, as I see it. Maybe through
the rapture, actually. Certainly at the millennial,
that's about the Jews, at the millennium. But the times of
the Gentiles, we just see that time, okay? Another place where
it's used, and we see times and seasons, Acts 1-6. Acts 1-6, and this is at the
Ascension. Okay, this is some of the last
words of our Lord. Acts 1-6. So when they had come together,
they asked him, Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom
to Israel? And he said to them, it is not
for you to know the times or the seasons that the father has
fixed by his own authority. So the disciples were not to
know either the times or the seasons that the father had set
by his own authority. The exact time of his return,
we don't know. Let me read this to you out of
Mark 13, 32. But concerning that day or that
hour, this is the Lord speaking, no one knows, not even the angels
in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. So even the Father
keeps that from the Son. And how many of you have seen
the movie Before the Wrath? I think you ought to watch it.
It's on Amazon Prime. You can get it there. I don't
think it costs anything. It's part of Prime, actually.
Did we pay $4.99 for it? Whatever. OK, not much. Before
the Wrath, there's a number of people in it. It's more of a
documentary. Jan Markello is in it, and Amir
Sefardi, and also a guy named Jay McCarl, who's a pastor out
of California, somewhere up in the hills. And they talk about
a Galilean wedding and how it's distinctly different in that the way it's done, I don't want
to ruin the whole thing for you, but the father and the son, they
go to the girlfriend's house, and they make a deal, they make
a contract essentially, and then they go back, and so he has to
prepare a place for his new bride, and then he goes and gets her.
And it can take up to a year sometimes for him to build onto
his house, which was traditional, build onto dad's house, build
a room or several rooms or something like that, because they tended
to live that way and have a central courtyard and all the family
was kind of together. He doesn't know when he's going
to go get his bride until the father says, OK, you're ready. And he's supposed to have all
these provisions and things ready. He's supposed to have a week's
worth of food ready so that they go into the bridal chamber for
a full week. OK? A bunch of things. And so it
takes time to prep all that. And this Jay McCarl, who has
written a book that I tried to buy and it's selling for like
280 bucks on Amazon. It's out of print. Because I
think a lot of people saw this movie in there after the book.
The problem is, and he says in his own writing, that he didn't
really document all this. And so that's why there's a little
bit of a caveat with me. It bothered me when I watched
the show that some of the things they say in there, which makes
sense to me, and I think I probably agree with, but he didn't really
document all his stuff. He lists a whole mess of books,
but he says, I really wrote it more for young people and stuff,
and I didn't put bibliography in it. And I don't know why he
hasn't gone back. So all that to say, I think it's
worth watching, but I can't find stuff to substantiate some of
the claims he makes. They actually fly the bride back
to the bridal chamber. They carry her on a a pallet
between sticks and four or five guys, bridesmen, groomsmen, would
carry her back, which is really a picture of us as the bride
of Christ going back to heaven. And he shows that in the show,
and that's really cool, and that sounds like, wow, that's just
like a pre-trib rapture that we hold to. But I haven't been
able to find documentation for it. That's why I take it with
a little bit of salt. I want to believe it. I think
you ought to watch it. I think it's worth watching.
I think a lot of it you can get out of scripture. It's good. And I like the people that are
backing it up. Why did I say all that? Concerning the day
or the hour, no one knows, only the Father. And so that's scriptural. And he sends his son at the appointed
time to get the bride. There is this thing that we just
read in Acts 1, 6, about it's not for you to know the times
and the seasons. And I've kind of struggled over
that because I understand not knowing the times. I don't know
the date when the Lord's coming back. But the season, I think
we do know. And yet this says it's not for
you to know. And I'm thinking that this is directly given to
the disciples. This is how I take this. It's
given directly to the disciples, but later on, Paul has things
revealed to us that really seem to indicate that we can know
the season. And we'll get into that as we move down through
this passage, okay? That it seems like, whoa, that
makes, he's telling us we can know the season. And I kind of
look back to Daniel 12.4, where he tells Daniel, you know, close
this up until the time of the end, Daniel. Don't write down
anything more. And I see that, down through history, when I
look at church history, our early church fathers weren't talking
much about eschatology. They were talking about who is
Christ and is He deity and, you know, these other kinds of things.
And Luther didn't deal with eschatology real well. You know, his focus
was more, hey, we got to get back to faith alone, Christ alone,
you know. and those kinds of things. And
now that we are in the latter times, these things seem, it
seems like the seasons are much more to us. And the Lord had
told Daniel, you know, save us for the time of the end, you
know, and I think these things get revealed to us more and more.
And so I do think that we can understand the seasons now, even
though to the disciples, he said, not yet. Okay. That's how I take it. Okay. So, and we're back in 1 Thessalonians
5, chapter 2. For you yourselves are fully
aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the
night. Fully aware. His emphasis here is simply that
believers were fully aware while unbelievers were living in ignorance
of God's word, okay, of God's plans. The sadness of these events
will reveal to the world its ignorance of divine truth. You
yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord, okay, and
we've talked about this a little in the past, and I have a two
pages of everywhere it says in the Bible, the day of the Lord,
okay? And then there's a whole mess
more that just say the day, and it's clearly referring to the
day of the Lord. And it's a big study. The day of the Lord, what I understand
of it, it's an extended period of time during which God openly
intervenes in human affairs, both in regard to judgment and
blessing, okay? The rapture ushers in the Day
of the Lord, and the tribulation begins sometime after, as described
in Revelation 6 and on, okay? And we'll look at this a little
bit more later as we go on. The Day of the Lord involves
all nations, including Israel, are involved in the Day of the
Lord. Let me just read Ezekiel 30, verse three. For the day
is near, the day of the Lord is near. It will be a day of
clouds, a time of doom for the nations. Okay, let me just ask
this before it goes on. Doom for the nations, and it
will be darkness and not light. Why is it doom for the nations? You know? Satan runs the world
system. Yeah. And they're just not paying
attention. As we just saw. Okay. It comes like a thief and they're
just not paying attention. And they are definitely just
following what Satan would have. Okay. Think about Psalm 2. Why do the nations rage and the
people plot in vain? They don't want anything to do
with God. That's where many of them are. Some are just apathetic.
Then Matthew 24, 22, if those days had not been cut short,
no one would survive but for the sake of the elect. Okay,
so yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will
come like a thief in the night. I got some more to look at here
regarding the day of the Lord. It lasts from the rapture to
the end of the millennium. That's what most people hold,
okay, in our camp, pre-tribulational camp. Let's turn over though
to 2 Peter. We should look at that. 2 Peter
3.10. Second Peter 3.10, but the day
of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass
away with a roar, the heavenly bodies will be burned up and
dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it
will be exposed. So you can see that this verse
kind of captures the entire day of the Lord. It comes like a
thief, and then he goes clear back, to where we're done with
the earth, and it's all destroyed. And that's at the end of the
millennium. So this little verse of Peter
just grabs that whole time section. I always think of it as 1,007
years, because it's at least the tribulation, and it's the
millennium. And it wraps that all up into
one. There's a little more time in there probably before the
tribulation takes off. It's also called the time of
Jacob's trouble. Let me read this to you. It's
Jeremiah 30, verse seven. In the King James, it's Jacob's
trouble. This is a little different here, but, alas, that day is
so great, there is none like it. It is a time of distress
for Jacob, that he shall be saved out of it. Which, you know, reminds us of
Romans 11, where it says all Israel will be saved, okay, in
the end. of the tribulation. And then
the day of the Lord comes unexpectedly like a thief. Okay? Comes like
a thief in the night. We just looked at this 2 Peter
3.10, which says the day of the Lord will come like a thief.
And now a couple more verses to look at in Revelation. If
you want to turn there, you could. Revelation 3.3. Revelation 3, 3, remember then,
now this is speaking to one of the churches, okay? Remember
then what you received and heard, keep it and repent. If you will
not wake up, I will come like a thief and you will not know
at what hour I come against you. Okay? He wants us to be paying
attention and we'll see later on, it shouldn't surprise us.
But here he's saying, if you're not paying attention, it's gonna
be like a thief to you. You're not gonna be ready for
it. And then Revelation 16, 15. Let you turn there one more time. Coming like a thief, he says,
16, 15. Behold, I'm coming like a thief.
Blessed is the one who stays awake. keeping his garments on,
that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed. It says
in the night. He's coming like a thief in the
night back in our text. It's like a thief in the night. It doesn't mean he's coming at
night. It's just like that, OK? You're not really expecting it
in the middle of the night. So he could come at any time, and
we've looked at that previously when we were 2 Thessalonians 2 chapter 2. Okay, back into our text of 1
Thessalonians 5 verse 3, next verse. While people, and we'll
just say they, are saying there is peace and security, then sudden
destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant
woman, and they will not escape. So people, they, the world, are
saying there's peace and security. The character of the times indicates
peace and security, or peace and safety, depending on your
translation, to those that are in darkness. We should turn over to 2 Peter
3.3. Got a little bit to look at there. 2 Peter 3, 3, knowing this, that
first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing,
following their own sinful desires, and they will say, where is the
promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell
asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning
of creation. Nothing's changed. They're not seeing what's coming,
and there's no expectation there. And this has happened before.
Let me read Jeremiah 14, 15 to you. Therefore, thus says the
Lord, concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, although
I did not send them, who say, this is what the prophets are
saying, prophets that aren't prophets of God, sword and famine
shall not come upon this land. And then the Lord says, by sword
and famine, those prophets shall be consumed. So we see that it's happened in the past. No,
nothing's going on. Everything's going on just as
before. Sun comes up, sun goes down, and we don't have to worry
the Lord's not coming back. And that's an old line, but the
Lord is coming. And then it says in our text,
then sudden destruction will come upon them. They're saying
peace and safety, peace and security. and then sudden destruction will
come upon them, and that's those that are in darkness. I take
that from verse four. If you look ahead to verse four
in our text, okay, you are not in darkness, brothers, for that
day to surprise you like a thief. So those that are in darkness
aren't thinking this is going to happen, okay? Too many people
walking by with a sign that says the end is near. They're just
not buying it anymore. Okay. Matthew 24, 43 is a good example. Should look at that. Looking at the sudden destruction
will come upon them, those that are in darkness. But know this, that if the master
of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was
coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let
his house be broken into. Therefore, you also must be ready,
for the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect. And then the Lord is going to
take out his own before the day of the Lord. And go to Luke 17
for that. He has a history of this, and
in Luke, it's kind of put together. Luke 17, verse 27, gives us a little picture. They
were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage
until the day when Noah entered the ark and the flood came and
destroyed them all. We see Noah is taken out from
the destruction before the destruction comes. Likewise, just as it was
in the days of Lot, they're eating and drinking, buying and selling,
planting and building. But on the day when Lot, it's
interesting, it's the day when Lot went out from Sodom, Fire
and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all. So again,
here we see on that day, and we see the rapture taking us
out in the day of the Lord beginning. It's not a day you wanna be around,
it's a day of darkness and destruction and gloom. So the sadness of
the rapture will usher in the beginning of the day of the Lord.
And that brings destruction. And a couple of things I thought
of here, just looking at destruction in four different ways, physically,
politically, religious, and spiritual destruction. Physical, if it
happens in a twinkling of an eye, there's going to be a lot
of cars that go off the road. If it takes a little longer, maybe
people will pull over and park and go, wow, that's my lord returning. Cars, planes, trains, ships,
unmanned. You know, if it takes a half
hour, some planes aren't going to get on the ground in time.
Okay, whatever. Looting, theft, death, heart
attacks, people just, you know, traumatic things like this. We
see people just dying. Grocery stores overrun. No toilet
paper anywhere. Overtaxed emergency services.
Depression over lost loved ones, children missing. Many people
think that children that are too young to have made a decision
for Christ before the age of accountability, which might vary
for every child out there, they may be gone. I even heard one
guy say that he thought that pregnant women would lose their
babies. I don't know that I'd go with that, but it's an interesting
thought. Go to heaven. Yes, those babies
would be raptured. It's a thought. That's a lot
of physical stuff. I'm sure there's more you could
come up with if you spent a lot of time with it and a group of
people worked at it. Political stuff. I think there's going
to be a rush to say that everything's under control, because it'll
be a big thing. Maybe aliens will get the blame.
I wouldn't be surprised about that. Christians were the problem. The left will love this. They
can pass anything they want. Power grabs? Never let a crisis
go to waste? You could probably think of lots
of political things. shortly after that. Religious
stuff. What is the Pope and all the
religious leaders going to say? They'll have to say something. Those that are left behind. Pastor
of the church here, pastor of the church there, whatever. Partial
rapture. That should come back into favor,
I would think. Partial rapture theory, which
isn't scriptural. Those with worn out Bibles are
all gone. Okay, then spiritual things. The big thing is the
removal of the Holy Spirit in the lives of believers. That's
just monumental. 2 Thessalonians 2.7 says, for
the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who
now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. And so
really we see Satan unrestrained. Believers gone, the Holy Spirit
in them is gone. Doesn't mean the Holy Spirit
isn't here, but he's not in dwelling. There's no believers at that
point, right after the rapture. Probably will begin to be some
fairly soon after that, that recognize that they blew it.
That'll be a huge thing that Satan has just unleashed, really. I don't know if you heard, but
President Biden made an announcement to the Flagstaff right now, because
we just reached the one million deaths for COVID in the United
States this week. One million deaths. So I did
a little math. I was kind of fooling around
with this, because that kind of struck me when I thought of that. There's approximately
330 million in the United States. If 10% of them are Christians,
that'd be 33 million. And I don't know if we have 10%.
When you look at Sodom and Gomorrah, it didn't go off too good there.
It was a really wicked city. I hope we're better than that.
But for 5%, that's 16.5 million. And that's maybe a fairly safe
number. I don't know. The Lord maybe is way more gracious
than, you know, and merciful. Maybe it's more than 10%. I don't
know. It's just numbers to play with, to think about. We probably
all know Jessica Lewis. She's the only person I know
who died from COVID personally. I personally, I know of other
people, but I'm not going to count them. I know of Jessica. And
you may know of one or two or three people that you knew personally.
But if you take that number that's in your head there and multiply
it by 16, that's how many people would be gone on the day of the
rapture. So I know Jessica. So instead of just missing Jessica,
it'd be 16 other people if 5% of this world is saved. If 10%
are saved to be 32 people that I personally would know, I mean,
that's roughly obviously. It's just something to think
about. That's a lot of people gone. It's going to be devastating.
That's the only point I was trying to make there. It says, as labor
pains come upon a pregnant woman, they start slow, begin to build. Sudden destruction will come
upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they
will not escape. Okay, verse 4 in our text, 1
Thessalonians 5, 4. But you are not in darkness,
brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. John 12, 46 says this, let me
read it. I have come into the world as
light so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness. So we should not be in darkness
as believers. Let's turn over to Ephesians
5, 5. That's worth going to. Ephesians chapter 5 and verse
5. For you may be sure of this,
that everyone who is sexually immoral, or impure, or who is
covetous, that is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom
of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty
words, for because of these things, the wrath of God comes upon the
sons of disobedience. Therefore do not become partners
with them. For at one time you were darkness,
but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light."
That walking. just comes up over and over and
over again. Do we remember the song, Walking
in the Light? Walking in the Light, okay? Verse
nine, for the fruit of light, think of Galatians 5 there, the
fruit of the Spirit. For the fruit of light is found
in all that is good and right and true. And try to discern what is pleasing
to the Lord. Verse 11, take no part in the
unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. And
we know that light exposes the unfruitful works of darkness. After the rapture, when the light
is gone, how dark will that darkness be? It'll be a dark time. Verse 12.
For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in
secret. But when anything is exposed to the light, it becomes
visible." And of course, you know, we're called to be the
light of the world. But we're not to be in darkness.
And again, this comes back to knowing God's Word so that, you
know, we are aware of these things. That way, the day will not surprise
us like a thief. And that's our next section here. for that day, and if, let's look
at your text there, and we're gonna read verses two and four.
We're just gonna take three right out of there, okay? For you yourselves
are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a
thief in the night. But you are not in darkness,
brothers, for that day, the day of the Lord, to surprise you
like a thief. And I hadn't seen this before,
but this verse really ties the rapture and the day of the Lord
together. In my mind, it just locks them together. You're not
in darkness, brothers, that day will surprise you. Why? Because we're gonna be here for
that day. We're gone at that day, but it
starts that. It should not surprise us, okay?
So we go up and that day starts, that day of the Lord. The rapture ushers in the day
of the Lord and the tribulation begins sometimes after that.
There is some sort of gap thought between the rapture and the tribulation
starting. There's this peace deal that's
made with the Antichrist. It's gonna take him a little
time to establish his position. Year, two years, couple years,
we don't know. But there is a period of time it appears. That's what
most people in our camp are holding to. But it comes as a thief to the
world. And we should not be surprised. Like Noah, like Lot, the Lord's
going to take us out of here before the rapture, before the
wrath of God. In verse 4, this is where I think
we understand the seasons, in that that day shouldn't surprise
you like a thief. We should be able to see that
season. We don't know the day, we don't know the time, the chronos.
but the season, it should not surprise us like a thief. And
then the other verse that we often quote, you know, Hebrews
10, 25, let's not give up meeting together as some are in the habit
of doing, but let us encourage one another and all the more
as you see the day approaching. So here we got two verses that
say we can see the day approaching. We don't know the day, but we
know the season. And it's a season of lawlessness. You know, we see those things.
I think we see precursors. I think that the vaccination
mandates were really a kind of a precursor to the mark of the
beast. And that if you didn't have the
passport in some places in the world, you couldn't get things,
you couldn't do things, you know. And I think it's just casting
a shadow ahead of what's coming. And we're certainly getting close
to I mean, there's just so many things are lining up. It's just
amazing. All right, so Christians can
see the day approaching. We should not be surprised, but
waiting expectantly, you know, that it could be any day, and
our hearts need to be prepared for that. Another verse I just
thought of that I didn't put in here, but I think it's 1 John
2, I want to say 26 or eight, Yeah, 28, 1 John 2, 28. Okay, we need to be prepared
so that we don't shrink back, okay? You know, a lot of people
have said, if he gave us the date, I listened to a guy the
other day who said, if he gave us the date, we'd be in Las Vegas
till a week before. I mean, that was, you know, just
hyper-really, but. You get the point. We'd be goofing around
until the last minute, and we'd say, okay, I better straighten
up and fly right. But he didn't do that, and that's
probably for that reason. Okay. Let's turn over to Luke 12. Luke chapter 12 and verse 35. And we're still looking for that
day to surprise you like a thief. Luke 12, 35, stay dressed for
action. Keep your lamps burning. That's
reminiscent of the 10, it reminds me of that parable of the 10
virgins who weren't ready to keep their lamps burning, were
they? Some of them didn't have the oil. Verse 36, and be like men who
are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding
feast so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes
and knocks. They see the master approaching
is what's going on. They're ready. Blessed are those
servants whom the father finds awake when he comes. Awake, alert. Truly I say to you, he will dress
himself for service and have them recline at table, and he
will come and serve them. It's thought that we go to the
marriage supper of the Lamb after the rapture during that seven
years, that that seven years is a period of, again, back to
that movie, The Wrath, before The Wrath, there are premises
that the wedding feast was often a week-long affair, a seven-day
affair. And that's a picture of us in heaven with the Lord
before we come back with him on white horses of being at a
wedding feast. Maybe. Hope so. This says, he
will dress himself for service and have them recline at table
and he will come and serve them. If he comes in the second watch
or the third watch, Let me say something here that I've told
a few of you this and There's this thought, and some
people teach it, that the Lord is going to come back on the
Feast of Trumpets. And it makes sense to me because he fulfilled
the first four feasts right on time. And the Feast of Trumpets
could really fit with the rapture of the church. Sort of bought into it a little
bit until recently when I read this. Because last year, when
the Feast of Trumpets came around, it's usually in September. It varies because of their lunar
calendar. I was paying attention that day.
I just was. And I probably will this year,
too. But I'm expecting it. And here he says, we can't expect
it. And so I thought I should mention
it because I think you ought to know it's getting more and
more prevalent. I'm seeing it in various places. People are
putting this out there that the Lord is going to come back on
Feast of Trumpets. Maybe he will. And what year, we don't know.
But I found myself expecting it. And here it says I can't
expect it. And there's a couple other verses
that say the very same thing. It sure seems to fit. It really
fits well in a lot of ways, because I've looked at it quite a bit.
But I'm not promoting it. And I've been very cautious to
say it. But I thought I would say it
now, because it's getting quite prevalent. And so you should
probably know about that. Can't be any expectations. We
are to be awake and waiting, and are we dressed for action?
Are we awake and waiting and dressed for action? That's a
question to ask ourselves. All right, we'll finish with this.
It's a quote from McGee. I thought it really ties this
together well. He says, the rapture of the church actually does two
things. First, it ends this day of grace
in which we are today. This calling out of a people
for his name and bringing many sons home to glory. The times
of the Gentiles. This is what God is doing in
our day. The rapture not only ends that, but, number two, it
begins the day of the Lord. The great tribulation will get
underway when the church leaves the earth. The one event of the
rapture will end the day of grace and begin the day of the Lord.
It closes one day and opens another. I thought that was a good way
of saying that. So we'll end there for tonight.
All right, let's just close in prayer. Again, Lord, we thank
you for your scripture, and we look at it here tonight and try
to work through it, try to best understand it as best we can
with what we're given and what you've revealed. And there are
some areas where we struggle to understand for sure what you
mean, and maybe as time goes on, we'll understand even more.
But it's clear, Lord, that you want us to be awake and alert
and waiting for you and to be looking for that blessed hope
and the glorious appearing of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Help us to be doing that for sure, Lord. We just pray this
now in Jesus' name, amen.
1 Thessalonians 5-part 13-A Times and the Seasons
Series 1 Thessalonians
The Times and the Seasons in light of The Day of the Lord.
| Sermon ID | 516221836183169 |
| Duration | 43:22 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday - PM |
| Bible Text | 1 Thessalonians 5:1-4 |
| Language | English |
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