#LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT VERSE MOVIE#

You donвЂ™t want to be taken here, because the end is judgment. Those that are not ready for the return of Christ will all be destroyed. Those that were not ready for the flood were all destroyed. Luke 17:37 The point of the Noah and Lot illustrations is the judgment. And if the thief comes in the night, he is coming in the tribulation. Therefore, when Thess says you are not of the night, it means they would not be in the tribulation. The Jewish day started with in the evening and then came the daylight. He says we вЂњare not of the darkness that the day should overtake you like a thief.вЂќ You have to understand the concept of the Jewish day. If you had known, you would have been sitting there with your gun or have the police sitting there with you.Д¬onsequently, He gives a command: be ready: the Son of Man will come at an unexpected hour.Д«elievers are not caught off guard by the thief because we are not in the night-time period. He makes a comparison to the unexpectedness of a thief who comes into your house at night and steals something. ItвЂ™s good we donвЂ™t have to wait until we are mature - especially since we never arrive. God uses us in our maturing and learning process. вЂњSome people preach Christ out of pretense.вЂќ If God can use a donkey in the OT to spread the truth, He can use us. Phil 1 is a great passage to keep in mind. Luke 17:37 shows that those that are taken will go where the vultures are - i.e.

People still get saved from the The Thief in the Night movie, but it is not biblically correct.

#LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT VERSE MOVIE#

вЂњI wish weвЂ™d all been ready.вЂќ Larry Norman wrote a song about that for a the movie called The Thief in the Night, but he pulled the phrase out of context. The appearance of the thief in the night is to judge! - Not to deliver by means of the rapture. The ProblemДЇor those who are alive at the Second Advent of Christ to the earth, what will keep them from being surprised by the вЂњthief-in-the-nightвЂќ appearance of the Son of Man who will execute His judgment upon the unbelievers of that time? The time of arrival for the Son of Man is unknown as is likened to a thief arriving in the middle of the night. As in the previous parable, watchfulness is the byword of belief. Then, after all were inside the ark and the door was shut, it started to rain for the first time in history. So, when Noah said it was going to flood, they thought he was crazy. The days of Noah with the sudden judgment is used as the illustration of the danger of being caught off guard by the unexpected time of its arrival. Discussion about Tribulation, Second Coming of Christ, parable of the fig tree, then the discussion about the days of Noah.

Like a thief in the night verse