15Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 14The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, 13and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. It doesn’t matter if you are a rich or poor, famous or not…there is no escape.ġ2I watched as he opened the sixth seal. Paul declares that destruction will come suddenly, and that there will be no escape. When that day comes there will be no hiding, no and no escape. Those who pretend that the day is not coming are like the ostrich that sticks his head in the sand to hide. It comes swiftly and so many live in darkness. O my cursed foolishness! I was flattering myself, and pleasing myself with vain dreams of what I would do hereafter, and when I was saying peace and safety, then sudden destruction came upon me.” If it were so, that we could come to speak with them, and could inquire of them, one by one, whether they expected when alive, and when they used to hear about hell, ever to be the subjects of that misery, we doubtless should hear one and another reply, “No, I never intended to come here I had laid out matters otherwise in my mind I thought I should contrive well for myself I thought my scheme good I intended to take effectual care but it came upon me unexpected I did not look for it at that time, and in that manner it came as a thief death outwitted me God’s wrath was too quick for me. The bigger part of those that heretofore have lived under the same means of grace, and are now dead, are undoubtedly gone to hell: and it was not because they were not as wise as those that are now alive: it was not because they did not lay out matters as well for themselves to secure their own escape. Jonathan Edwards – Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Godīut the foolish children of men do miserably delude themselves in their own schemes, and in their confidence in their own strength and wisdom they trust in nothing but a shadow. You just wake up and see you have been victimized. He does not give signs when he plans to strike. A good thief does not telegraph his robbery. It does not fit on a timeline where his arrival is expected. One moment they are going about their business and the next they are overwhelmed and crushed. Suddenly agony and terror will overwhelm them.
It will not be a day of deliverance and bliss. For most, it will not be a day of celebration and glorification. The day is coming! It will come like a thief and many are asleep. 11Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.(NIV) 10He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him.
9For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
8But since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. 7For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. 6So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be alert and self-controlled. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. 5You are all sons of the light and sons of the day. 4But you, brothers, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief. 3While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. 1Now, brothers, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, 2for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
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