SPIRITUAL FOOD 4 THOUGHT - BAD FORMULAS of MODERN CHURCH THEOLOGY - "Coming as a thief" = Imminent
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A lot false claims are made by many when it comes to understanding what God has revealed in the Bible. Often, if you are able to break it down into a formula, you may be able to see the inaccuracy of their claims more easily. In this one, I show from scripture how "coming as a thief" is not evidence that something is imminent.
It should be obvious that the Bible teaches the imminent coming of Christ. Meaning it could happen at any time.
(Matthew 24:36-51 NIV) "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. {37} As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. {38} For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; {39} and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. {40} Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. {41} Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left. {42} "Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. {43} But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. {44} So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him. {45} "Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? {46} It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. {47} I tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. {48} But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, 'My master is staying away a long time,' {49} and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. {50} The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. {51} He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Jesus will come back when nobody expects him. We don't know the day or the hour. Yet we also know that Jesus is coming back seven years after the antichrist signs a seven year peace treaty with Israel. Then we will know the day.
(Daniel 9:27 NIV) He will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven.' In the middle of the 'seven' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him."
Jesus has to come back twice. Once to come back for his church when no one knows he's coming and no one sees him.
And at the end of the Great Tribulation when everyone expects him and every eye sees him.
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