(1Thess 5:3-4 NKJV) You are all sons of light and sons of the day. (1Thess 5:3 NKJV) But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. The day of the Lord will not be as a thief to the brethren meaning it could not refer to the rapture itself but rather to the day Jesus comes back.įor when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them…and they shall not escape. Unfortunately, many people stop reading at verse two and do not continue to see to whom Jesus will come as a thief He is coming ‘as a thief’ to those not expecting him, that is, to those in darkness! The language is clear that “they” – the ones in darkness, are the ones to whom sudden destruction will come and “you,” the brethren, are sons of light, not darkness.
The supposed problem is resolved in the rest of the 1 Thessalonians 5 passage. The only way this could break unexpectedly upon the world is to have it begin immediately after the rapture of the church. If the Day of the Lord did not begin until the second advent, since that event is preceded by signs, the Day of the Lord could not come as a “thief in the night,” unexpected, and unheralded, as it is said it will come in 1 Thessalonians 5:2. Pentecost, a professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, writes in his book Things to Come It is commonly argued that “the thief in the night” must refer to the rapture and cannot refer to the second coming because that would be obvious as people would simply need to read their Bible Dr.
#Come in like a thief in the night movie
The basis of the movie was derived from 1 Thessalonians 5 where “the Day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night.” (1Thess 5:2 NKJV) The opening scene made a lasting impression on me and millions of more Americans that the rapture will come unexpectedly and without warning, just like a thief in the night! The Second Coming is Like a Thief in the NightĪs a boy I remember an evening when our church showed the movie “A Thief in the Night.” I remember the opening scene of the woman running to the bathroom looking for her husband, only to discover the electric razor running and abandoned in the sink – her husband obviously raptured all the while the radio explained the disappearance of perhaps millions of people around the world.
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