We can go back to one of Christ's parables, the "Ten Virgins".
The take away...be prepared when the day and hour comes. Blessings.
why don't all go back with me, and see that the take from the parable in Matthew chapter 25, is the very same as the take for Matthew 25, that the Son of man comes at an hour when we are not aware of.
See again how that is EXACTLY, the summing up by Jesus Himself, that we do not know the day nor the hour when the Son comes. ( but the Son knows)
Matthew 24:36 But of that day and
hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my
Father only.
Matthew 24:44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Matthew 2512 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
Now everybody, look at the five unwise.
Ephesians exhorts us to awake as we are sleeping, to arise form the dead and Christ shall give us light. ( Christ knows the day, as He is the day who gives us light.)
We are exhorted to walk carefully, not as fools, but as wise.
We are to look at this time, where the days and the teachers ( forums) are evil.
We are to not be unwise ( as Jesus taught) but we are to understand what the will of the Lord is, which is to not be drunk with the drunken. ( instead to be filled with the Spirit.)
Matthew 2512 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
Ephesians 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Now I hear the wise asking, how are we filled with the Spirit, how do we not be drunk with the drunken ?
Jesus gives two parables, answering, how at this time when the days are evil, ( many false prophets deceiving many.) we are to pray always, so we do not faint. ( lose faith, not be ready for when Christ comes, at the hour we think not))
Jesus shows the doubt that He will find any of faith when He comes.
Three chapters later in Luke, we are exhorted again by Christ to take heed to ourselves, as our hearts will be overcome by drunkenness, and cares of this life, so that the day of Christ comes on us unawares.
This day is told how it comes, as a snare it comes on ALL THEM WHO DWELL ON THE FACE OF THE WHOLE EARTH.
We are therefore exhorted by Christ to pray always, to be accounted worthy to escape all these things that have come to pass, so we may stand before the Son of man.
Luke 18:1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
Luke 18:7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
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.
