WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH HARRY CONNICK JR? PLEASE TAKE YOUR SPAM
ELSEWHERE,At 12:01 AM 1/6/05 +0000, you wrote:

>AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT - IN THE DAYS OF NOAH
>
>
>Many there are in Christendom today who teach that Christians can't
>know when Jesus is coming because He's coming like a thief in the
>night. Yes indeed, Jesus is coming as a thief in the night. But, to
>whom is He coming as a thief? The Bible says:
>
>"But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I
>write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the
>Lord so cometh as a thief in the night" (I Thessalonians 5:1 & 2).
>
>There you have it, beloved. The day of the Lord is coming as a thief
>in the night. Many stop right there to prove their point that no one
>can know the time. The day of the Lord in this text is speaking about
>the time immediately preceding the Second Coming of the Lord. How do
>we know that? Let's go on to the next verse. Often we don't read
>far enough. The next verse says:
>
>"For when THEY shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction
>cometh upon THEM, as travail upon a woman with child: and THEY shall
>not escape" (I Thess. 5:3).
>
>Who are THEY and THEM in the verse above? THEY and THEM are the
>unbelievers in the tribulation before the Second Coming of the Lord
>Jesus. Always, in both the Old and New Testaments, the day of the
>Lord refers to the Second Coming of the Lord in judgment. Always, in
>the New Testament, the day of Jesus Christ, or Christ Jesus, refers
>to the Rapture of the Church. Check it out. So then, in the verses
>above, Paul is saying that the day of the Lord and its judgment will
>come as a thief in the night upon THEM, and THEY shall not escape.
>Now, let's go on to the next verse where Paul speaks to US about US:
>
>"But YE, BRETHREN are not in darkness, that that day should overtake
>you as a thief" (I Thess. 5:4).
>
>Will the day of the Lord come upon the brethren (believers) as a
>thief in the night? Not a chance! Why not? We, the brethren, have
>spiritual eyes to see. They don't. The next verse says:
>
>"Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we
>are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep,
>as do others; but let us watch and be sober" (I Thess. 5:5 & 6).
>
>Let us watch and be sober! Let us watch especially the Road Map to
>Israeli-Palestinian peace; the covenant to be confirmed (guaranteed)
>by the Gentile antichrist. Jesus also told the Church to watch and
>know the hour of His coming:
>
>"If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief,
>and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee" (Rev. 3:3).
>
>Jesus said that from the negative side. If we read it from the
>positive side, He said, If you watch, I will not come upon you as a
>thief, and YOU SHALL KNOW what hour I will come upon you. WATCH AND
>KNOW THE HOUR OF HIS COMING! THUS SAITH THE LORD!
>
>Jesus told the Church if we watch we won't be overtaken as a thief in
>the night and we will know what hour He will come. Is this a
>contradiction to what Jesus said to Israel? No, it is not. Jesus
>said to Israel before His death and resurrection:
>
>"But of that day and hour KNOWETH no man, no, not the angels of
>heaven, but my Father only" (Matthew 24:36).
>
>Notice please, the verb KNOWETH is in the present tense, relative to
>the time Jesus said it. Remember, when Jesus said this, it was 32
>A.D. and at that time only God the Father knew. But, did He say that
>no one would ever know? No! He did not. In the very next verses He
>goes on to explain:
>
>AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH
>
>"But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of
>man be" (Matthew 24:37).
>
>Let us now go to the book of Genesis and learn more about the days of
>Noah.
>
>GOD FORETOLD THE NUMBER OF YEARS UNTIL THE COMING JUDGMENT
>
>God revealed to Noah that man's days would be another 120 years until
>the judgment would come:
>
>"And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for
>that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty
>years" (Genesis 6:3).
>
>GOD REVEALED THE WAY OF SALVATION FOR THE BELIEVERS
>
>"Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark,
>and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch" (Genesis 6:14).
>
>God always keeps the believers from His wrath and judgment. Later,
>after the ark was finished and as the hour of judgment was nigh, God
>then revealed to Noah the exact day it would come.
>
>GOD FORETOLD THE EXACT DAY
>
>"FOR YET SEVEN DAYS, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty
>days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made
>will I destroy from off the face of the earth" (Genesis 7:4).
>
>GOD KEPT HIS WORD
>
>"And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood
>were upon the earth" (Genesis 7:10).
>
>Now let's go back to Matthew 24 and further examine what Jesus was
>saying about the days of Noah:
>
>"But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of
>man be. For as in the days that were before the flood THEY were
>eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day
>that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and
>took THEM all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be"
>(Matt. 24:37-39).
>
>THEY were eating and drinking. THEY were marrying and giving in
>marriage. THEY knew not until the flood came and took THEM all away.
>Who were THEY? THEY were the unbelievers. The unbelievers knew not
>until the flood came and took THEM all away. But, as the time drew
>nigh, THE BELIEVERS KNEW the exact day before the fact! AMEN!
>
>"BUT AS THE DAYS OF NOE WERE, SO SHALL ALSO THE COMING OF THE SON OF
>MAN BE."
>
>PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE EYE OPENING MESSAGES:
>
><http://www.mychristiansite.com/ministries/jmccutchan>http://www.mychristiansit\
e.com/ministries/jmccutchan
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Yahoo! Groups Sponsor
>ADVERTISEMENT
><http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=129orm1cd/M=298184.5639630.6699735.3001176/D=grplc\
h/S=1705024650:HM/EXP=1105056127/A=2495208/R=0/SIG=11egg01lg/*http://www.netflix\
.com/Default?mqso=60188914>ad90b58.jpg
>ad90c40.jpg
>
>
>----------
>Yahoo! Groups Links
> * To visit your group on the web, go to:
> *
>
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/harryconnickjrfanlounge/>http://groups.yahoo.com/\
group/harryconnickjrfanlounge/
>
> *
> * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> *
>
<mailto:harryconnickjrfanlounge-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com?subject=Unsubscribe>\
harryconnickjrfanlounge-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
>
> *
> * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the
> <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>Yahoo! Terms of Service.

----------



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]