The Day of the Lord as a Thief

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 10, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 10.

The Day of the Lord as a Thief

An error which is clung to most persistently by a great many people, is that the coming of the Lord will overtake all "as a thief in the night." It is true that the apostle does say (1 Thess. 5:2) "that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night;" but he immediately adds (verse 4): "But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day; we are not of the night, nor of darkness." So it is only those who are in darkness that will be overtaken as a thief; and of them the apostle says (verse 3), that "sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape."