Christ is never said to come for His church as a thief. Therefore if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.ĭonald Grey Barnhouse - Coming as a thief always denotes an unexpected coming in judgment because a thief comes to rob and destroy. Rev 3:3- note 'So remember ( present imperative) what you have received and heard and keep it, and repent.
#Jesus will return like a thief in the night full
Scripture uses the figure of a thief in other eschatological passages:ġThessalonians 5:2- note For you yourselves know full well that the Day of the Lord will come just like ( simile) a thief in the night.ĢPeter 3:10- note But the Day of the Lord will come like ( simile) a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. MacArthur comments - The element of surprise associated with a thief's clandestine arrival fits the point of the unexpectedness of the Lord's return. You too, be ( present imperative) ready for the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect."
In this next section Jesus gives us a parable on the importance of readiness at all times.Ĭompare parallel passage in Luke 12:39-40:īut be sure ( present imperative = introduces a truth to be treated as both obvious and emphatic) of this, that if the head of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have allowed his house to be broken into (they did so often by digging through the walls). KJV - But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. : ekeino de ginoskete (2PPPAI or 3PPAM) hoti ei edei (3SPLUPERFI) o oikodespotes poia phulake o kleptes erchetai (3SPMI) egregoresen (3SAAI) an kai ouk an eiasen (3SAAI) dioruchthenai (APN) ten oikian autou: ( Head of the house: Mt 20:11 Pr 7:19)( had: Lu 12:39 1Th 5:2-6 2Pe 3:10,11)( would not: Ex 22:2,3) Matthew 24:43 "But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. Matthew 24:43 "But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.Ĥ4 "For this reason you also must be ready for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.Ĥ5 "Who then is the faithful and sensible slave whom his master put in charge of his household to give them their food at the proper time?Ĥ6 "Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes.Ĥ7 "Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions.Ĥ8 "But if that evil slave says in his heart, 'My master is not coming for a long time,'Ĥ9 and begins to beat his fellow slaves and eat and drink with drunkards ĥ0 the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know,ĥ1 and will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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