Because the way they teach, the way they can get away with teaching the imminency of Christ
is saying well he comes as a thief in the night.
Well here it says that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
But what they believe the day of the Lord is referring to the third coming of Christ
which is in Revelation chapter 19.
Now we're going to go a little deep tonight so I know this is a Thursday evening Bible
study so it's going to require for you to pay a little extra attention and worry about
dinner in the next 45 minutes or so.
Get spiritually fed first, amen.
They believe that the day of the Lord is referring to Revelation 19.
Now what is Revelation 19?
Revelation 19 is when Jesus Christ comes on a white horse with all believers.
He comes to basically wage war against the anti-Christ, the false prophet and the armies.
This is what's known as the battle of Armageddon.
He does this, he conquers them and he sets up his millennial reign.
And he said well show me the Bible that says the third coming.
It doesn't say the third coming.
We're using math, right?
His first coming would be Bethlehem's manger where we're going to celebrate this month
the birth of Christ.
The second coming would be the rapture.
Now here's the funny thing is they don't want to count the rapture as the second coming
of Christ.
They call the Revelation 19 as the second coming of Christ because they say well he
doesn't really come you know during the rapture because he kind of just comes, he's invisible
and he disappears.
That's what they say, right?
But folks do we really have the right to impose a definition of what a coming is?
You know he literally comes and by the way let's just pretend for a second, I know this
is hard but let's just pretend that the pre-tribulation rapture is true.
Let's just pretend that imminency is true.
It still means that he comes.
He's not sending someone on his behalf to gather all believers together.
Jesus Christ is coming even according to pre-tribbers he's coming.
So it would still be considered the second coming of Christ.
But the reason they don't want to label it as the second coming of Christ is because
the term the coming of Christ is always in relation to the rapture and is used in tandem
with the day of the Lord.
You say well why don't they want to use the day of the Lord?
Because you have a verse right here talking about the day of the Lord in tandem with the
rapture.
You understand?
So he says yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in
the night.