1 Thessalonians 5:1-6 .... you brothers are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief....  Paul talking about the Day of The Lord, which takes place during:

    

 
(This article is in a bit of a rough format - { this was from a blog I had at the site }, but there's a lot of good information contained herein!!! :) - I may get a new type of blog in the future.

God’s Blessings and Merry Christmas to All People : )

The article below is on the Rapture - Watching for Jesus to Return, and Daniel's 70 Weeks : )  And then John 15 from the Bible : )

 
Matthew 25 speaks of the Rapture, and the Rapture is a time when Jesus returns as a thief in the night, vs/compared to Jesus returning 7 exact/specific/countable/knowable/calculatable/definite years from the signing of the Peace Deal.

Jesus Return as a Thief (The Rapture), and Jesus Return at Armageddon are two different times.

Armageddon happens 7 years from the signing of Daniel 9:27 - That is a definite knowable time, vs or mutually exclusive of The Rapture when Jesus said in Luke 12, His return would be like a thief - This is The Rapture.

Luke 12:39-46

³⁹ And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.

⁴⁰ Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

⁴¹ Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?

⁴² And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?

⁴³ Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

⁴⁴ Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.

⁴⁵ But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants an maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;

⁴⁶ The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers...........

This next sentence is addressing a post(s) from the Blog in connection with the European ENP. The ENP gives the idea that we are in the Tribulation, but I disagree with that assertion, but like I said in the blog, just the fact that there's a thought(s) out there that Daniel 9:27 has already been confirmed, just goes to show how close we may really be to Jesus Return : )

Here's my refutation :)

"We would know if we were in the tribulation - Elijah and Enoch or Moses would be over in Jerusalem right now preaching out against the Anti-Christ, 144,000 Jewish people would be preaching the Christian Faith - and there would be a Temple being built, of which the Anti-Christ would stand in and say he's God."

The temple I am under the impression can be built in maybe 3 years.  So this being like a big let downer as to the nearness of Jesus return in that it would take a long time to build a Temple, is not necessarily true.  I was just reading in 1 Kings in the Bible where it only took Solomon 7 years to build the First Temple in Jerusalem, though he had like 150,000 people working on the Temple : )  But today, a building/structure could probably be completed in 3 years.  - { At the midpoint of the the 7 Year End, the AntiChrist will enter the Temple and proclaim himself to be God } 

I am convinced because of The Parable of the Ten Virgins who were waiting for the arrival of the Bridegroom which occurred as a surprise, that the Rapture is going to take place the same way  --  Matthew 25 is definitely in the Bible - lol's  : )  --  vs. Jesus returning at Armageddon - Seven specific years from the Anti-Christ's peace deal with Israel.

Have Faith in the Rapture - It is a Blessed Hope - Either way though, Jesus is returning and it may be soon!!!  I like Believing the Rapture though because it is more true to the Scripture of being commanded to watch for Jesus to Return!  Versus just sitting back, and marking off Seven years on the calendar from the signing of Daniel 9:27, and knowing when Jesus will arrive. - But I wouldn't be sitting back, I would be Evangelizing as Fervently as Possible :)


To Watch For Jesus To Return (The Rapture) means to be on The Alert, to Give Strict Attention!!

There's no way to reconcile the above verses and say there is no Rapture - The Rapture happens at an unknown time vs Jesus return at Armageddon happening at a knowable time - at the end of the 70th Week, or at the end of the 7 Year Peace Deal - specific/calculable/countable/knowable time. 

The Rapture has got to be real!!! Because it happens at an unknowable time - fulfilling the verses above : )  And Jesus return at Armageddon, a knowable time - fulfills Daniel 9:27!!!!

That's why I took a lot of time to write the Daniel's 70 Weeks Prophecy article, because it is absolutely fundamental to understanding the times we live in or the Last Days.  And there are hardly any who really believe and understand how much this prophecy is worth - People don't know how to give Value to this prophecy.  This Prophecy of Daniel 9:27 is absolutely key and fundamental to be able to be a Preacher/Pastor/Bible Prophecy Scholar in the 21st Century.  If there isn't like a  "This is A Pearl of Great Price" approach to Daniel's 70th Week, it will be neglected.

Every Preacher in America should be starting his sermon every Sunday at Daniel's 70th Week!!!! And going forward from there -  lol's : )   Because we are living in the Times of this Prophecy!!!!

Though it hasn't happened yet!!!! But you know what I mean.

Matthew 25 - The Parable of The Ten Virgins is the Rapture. 

Read The:  Rapture Watchman Article for November 2007 !!!!!!!!!!!!

I will leave you all with these verses:

Luke 21:36  Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man

Revelation 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I will also keep thee from the hour of trial which shall try all those who dwell on the earth.

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13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds,

 to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
 

God's Blessings Everyone :)

Vic :)

¹ I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

³ Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

⁴ Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

⁵ I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

⁶ If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and  cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

⁷ If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

⁸ Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

⁹ As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

¹⁰ If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

¹¹ These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

¹² This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

¹³ Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

¹⁴ Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

¹⁵ Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I haved heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

¹⁶ Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruti, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

¹⁷ These things I command you, that ye love one another.

¹⁸ If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

¹⁹ If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

²⁰ Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord.  If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

²¹ But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

²² If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.

²³ He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

²⁴ If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

²⁵ But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

²⁶ But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

²⁷ And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.