The Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night, part 1
5 Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, 2 for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
Why are Christians so concerned about times and dates? They refer to them as "high watch dates", they feel like here is where we really need to be paying attention. But Paul says you don't need that because we have something else that we will see. We will see that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. According to Paul if we understand that then we don't need times and dates. I have repeatedly returned to this verse and I believe it is because I have only been scratching the surface and the Lord is demanding I look at this again.
Luke 12:39 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.
This verse is repeated in Matthew and Luke. When the Lord says "understand this" it doesn't mean that we won't know when the thief is coming, rather it means this is the reason the house was broken into. This "house" could refer to the infiltration of the US with this communist agenda to defund the police and overthrow the government. It could refer to a "globalist" infiltration and takeover of our political representatives who have an agenda to destroy the US currency which would force us into this globalist union. It could refer to the stolen election. It could refer to George Soros, and Mark Zuckerberg financing all kinds of corruption behind the scenes. It could refer to the apostasy of the church and the infiltration of organized Christianity with false brothers. The point I'm making is that all of these things are signs to us letting us know the Lord is coming and they are far more useful that dates and times. If you read this we are supposed to be preventing the thief from breaking into our house and in Luke He talks about giving the saints the proper food at the proper time. Therefore the recent declaration about Chrislam, that is a major sign that the Lord is coming.
Revelation 3:3 Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.
This verse tells us the same thing but from a different angle. I consider the church in Sardis to represent the Protestant Denominational churches. All of these churches had a wonderful start where they had received some new revelation from the Bible and they held it fast. But then at the end of the age there is a new revelation and they have completely forgotten how to receive new light. For over a century they have been drugged with this "no one knows the day and the hour" as though that absolves them from watching or even guarding the house from the thief. The Lord is telling them if you don't wake up now when you do wake up you will realize you have been robbed and you will be ashamed. But this also is a great sign to us that at the end of the age there will be this apostasy and all these Christian denominational churches who are asleep and refuse to wake up. For some of us we can't believe that some are still clueless about what the pandemic and vaccine are all about, or the plan for one world currency, or for a vaccine passport, or the many other indications that a thief has come.
Jeremiah 2:26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,
This is really a very great sign, the rapture of the church will leave many believers ashamed. Everyone talks about not knowing when the rapture will take place. Fine, forget about that, how about knowing how to avoid getting robbed? No one would be so foolish as to say there is nothing we can do about not getting robbed. You can lock the door, you can get an alarm system, you can get a dog, you can buy a safe. If someone were going to break into your house and steal something of high value how long would it take them? Could they do it in less than 5 minutes or would then need at least 30 minutes? Would they need a truck or could they put the valuables in their pocket and simply walk away? Most police can respond to a call within five minutes. Most thieves are going to want a get away car. My point is that it is relatively simple to prevent your house from being robbed. So then if you do wake up after the rapture and you were robbed it is going to be very embarrassing to those who were supposed to be keeping guard. But look at this verse: their kings, their princes, their priests and their prophets! Wow, that is everyone that you put your trust in has failed you.
2Sam 15:6 And this Absalom did to everyone in Israel who came to the king to have his cause judged: so Absalom, like a thief, took away the hearts of the men of Israel.
This story is a direct example of "the day of the Lord coming like a thief in the night". If you saw Absalom in the gates of the city stealing the hearts of the men of Israel you would know the insurrection was about to take place. This would be a great sign. David was caught by surprise and barely escaped. But this really reveals what the Lord means by the day coming as a thief in the night. The thief is "stealing the hearts of men". That is what the apostasy is, that is what CRT is, that is what the defund the police movement funded by marxist is. For four years we heard a non stop barrage attacking the President with an "orange man is bad" narrative designed to steal the hearts of men. That should have been a very big sign to us.
What Paul is saying is that if we are focused on preventing our house from being broken into we would have woken up much sooner than any teaching on dates and times. Also, the point is not to be awake for the sake of being awake but rather to prevent the thief from breaking into the house and robbing it. So then focusing on making the house secure is by far the more needful message. The apostasy was a big wake up for many, the election fraud was a big wake up call for many, this horrendous exit from Afghanistan was a big wake up call for many. But to prevent the house from being robbed we need to pray.
Joel 2:9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
Joel describes this worldwide pandemic as a thief sneaking into people's houses like a thief. This pandemic with all the lies has woken up many more people that there is a thief breaking into the house.
