"Thief in the Night"
1 Thessalonians 5:1-11
“Therefore encourage one another” seems uncharitable at best
given the impending doom everyone except the Thessalonians will experience when
the “will come as a thief in the night” comes as a day of the Lord from hell. Surprise!
And doesn’t the idea of an eternal from the beginning plan to make the biggest
surprise of human history sudden destruction bother you? Even the most vicious
small g god humans have invented can do that. So what if the surprise “thief in
the night day of the Lord” is mercy not judgment? And staying sober is living
in the light of radical love, the kind of eat and drink with tax collectors and
sinners life that got Jesus killed so that the destiny of humanity would be salvation
and not wrath. Now that would be a surprise, wouldn't it?
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