![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Paul had just noted that his readers did. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him. Verse 1 notes, Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. Everyone will be doing business as usual, saying, There is peace and security, then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. The Apostle Paul wrote about the unexpected return of Jesus, writing, For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night (1 Thess 5:2). And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. 3 While people are saying, There is peace and security, then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant. 2 For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers,1 you have no need to have anything written to you. Ye are not in the ignorant and sinful condition of the unredeemed world, so as to be surprised by the day of the Lord. In what book in the NKJV would you find this passage: But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night (1 Thess 5:2) and any other verse that says Jesus will come as a thief. By darkness is here meant, not merely ignorance, but moral depravity - the darkness of sin. Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. Are not in darkness referring back to the night (ver. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpfulīehold, a day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. ![]()
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