Saturday, May 7, 2011

Sudden destruction

Means there will be no feeling that you know why it is happening.  It is sudden.  That's the important part of
1 Thessalonians 5:3.  There will be no time for a change of heart.
I know that they said "peace and security".  The tradition that was handed to me is it means the end of the one saying it.  Their death, suddenly.
But here is an alternate interpretation:
Paul was speaking to the brothers who knew that the truth would belong to a small flock and the rest would be carried away by falsehood, in the last days.  It is the thief, probably the presumptuous  one (Psalm 86:14), that captured the imagination of the seekers and caused the Christ to be alone.
The ones saying peace and security are those who took it upon themselves to take what was Jesus' right to power salvation.  So now they have set upon them (the mark-call it) sudden destruction.
And while we are on the subject an alternate interpretation of spiritistic practices can mean the practice of pharmacology, not that it is bad, but the hope of earth saving us is taking the place of the Real Savoir, GOD.  Is it not?

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