Peace and safety from war and aggression. And with recent calls to end all wars and aggression on a global scale just might allow people the freedom from fear to again live their lives. Even within the new normal. I too hope that this virus and social distancing will be short lived. Suffice to say, that people still eat, drink and marry regardless of the social distancing which is in effect. Internal toil and fears have always resided with man. The sense of security is so subjective and is constantly changing as well. But nothing can prevent the Lord's plans from moving forward! For that day has been chosen since before the world's foundations were laid. With or without social distancing, it shall occur. IMHO TR Blue, I am also an RN, although advanced practice, in an administrative role and a adjunct for RN in undergrad, so not directly at bedside. My heart is very. Heavy hourly for my clinical colleagues. This is a crazy, unbelievable time. I will keep her in Prayer. Lord, again I come to you seeking your healing hand for yet another colleague, please help her to first accept you, second be healed and strengthened according to your will. We as this in Jesus name and for his glory! :prayer-hands: Maybe the peace and security isn't until after the rapture when the covenant is signed? Then the sudden destruction is an earthquake, or war. I Thessalonians 4:17 describes the rapture and then maybe chapter 5 is actually describing what comes after. I reread this passage below ... the question becomes ... “what is the day of the Lord?” Is that the rapture or is it His judgment on planet earth? Many scholars were teaching its the rapture as the thief in the night but now I’m wondering if perhaps the thief in the night is actually the calamities of the tribulation starting for the unsaved and the church is long gone and doesn’t have to wait for “peace and safety” speech or for the cure of the coronavirus. Perhaps the scenario unfolds this way ... the church leaves sometime this April or May with all the high watch dates coming up ... and then the world is in such chaos from not only the virus but the rapture causing total collapse and perhaps even the G/M war kicks in. Then the AC shows up with the answers ... he makes stronger/confirms the Trump peace deal, the Jews can build their temple, the cure for the virus and causes all to take the mandatory shot, and talks about the one world currency ... then the world cries finally “peace and safety” at last and BAM the tribulation starts? 1 Thessalonians 5 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 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. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 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. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, I was thinking that if Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Nisan 10 and if the Rabbis are expecting the Messiah to come before Passover...if the antichrist is going to imitate Christ and show up to fulfill scripture, he would show up on Nisan 10 also...on a colt. They are expecting him to bring the cure and think they need the temple for that also, so that would also involve the covenant. So, I think rapture by next Sat. Antichrist shows up with cure and signs covenant, they say peace and safety, then there is sudden destruction. That's my best take on it. 6 days away to find out!
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
