Destruction of Jerusalem
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heed the warning shall not be left in darkness, that that day should
overtake them unawares. But to them that will not watch, “the day of
the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.”
1 Thessalonians 5:2-5
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The world is no more ready to credit the message for this time than
were the Jews to receive the Saviour’s warning concerning Jerusalem.
Come when it may, the day of God will come unawares to the ungodly.
When life is going on in its unvarying round; when men are absorbed
in pleasure, in business, in traffic, in money-making; when religious
leaders are magnifying the world’s progress and enlightenment, and
the people are lulled in a false security—then, as the midnight thief
steals within the unguarded dwelling, so shall sudden destruction come
upon the careless and ungodly, “and they shall not escape.”
Verse 3
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