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LESSON 3 * PART 3 * BOOK 42
I Thessalonians 5:1-12
You can find no reference to the "Day of Christ" anywhere else in Scripture. Now come back to I Thessalonians chapter 5, and verse 3, and let’s compare the believer in chapter 4, and the unbeliever in chapter 5. I Thessalonians 5:3
Well go back up to chapter 4 and look at the pronouns. I Thessalonians 4:13…"
(speaking to us believers)
I Thessalonians 4:13b
I Thessalonians 4:14a
I Thessalonians 4:15a
I Thessalonians 4:17
So shall we as the consortium of the Body of Christ believers ever be with the Lord. You see, as believers we’re not in the Day of the Lord, we’re in the Day of Christ. Now back to chapter 5, and let’s look at verse 3 again.
I Thessalonians 5:3a
Sudden destruction. I Thessalonians 5:3a
I Thessalonians 5:3b
Now verse 4. What’s the first word? I Thessalonians 5:4
Because we’re going to experience the "Day of Christ" at the Rapture before the "Day of the Lord" begins. I Corinthians 1:4
"I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God (See, there’s no wrath here, this is Grace) which is given you by Jesus Christ;"
The Day of the Lord was the Day of Jehovah, His Old Testament title. Paul speaks of Him not as Jehovah, but as Jesus Christ. Now verse 5.
I Corinthians 4:5-7
Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: 7. So that ye come behind in no gift: (now here it comes) waiting for the coming (not for the day of the Lord, but) for our Lord Jesus Christ."
We are waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. So turn with me to the Book of Titus chapter 2. It’s a verse I’ve used on television for people who come to your door and deny that Jesus Christ is God. "For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath (past tense) appeared to all men, (the same Grace of God) 12. Looking for that blessed hope, (not the wrath of God. Paul never uses that term for the believers, but he says, ) Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God (do you see that? We’re looking for that great God, the Creator of the universe) and our Saviour Jesus Christ;"
Now come back to I Corinthians chapter 1. So we’re waiting for this glorious blessed hope to become a reality, the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now verse 8.
that ye may be blameless…"
We’ll never have to stand before Him and say, "Oh Lord I have all this sin." "…in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ."
Not the Day of the Lord for judgment, but the Day of Jesus Christ, or the Day of God calling out the believers. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5. God’s not going to let them continue to besmirch the name of Christ, and that’s what Paul is saying about this person, but this person is not going to lose his salvation for the sin But rather God is going to take him out of his human life to spare the reproach of Christ. I Corinthians 5:5
in the day of the Lord Jesus."
When Christ returns to take the Body of Christ out and off of this old planet. Now let’s look at another one in II Corinthians chapter 1, and remember all these references are about the Day of Christ, and found only in Paul’s epistles. Let’s just drop in at verse 14.
II Corinthians 1:14
What’s Paul talking about here? That all of these Corinthian believers are going to be united with Christ, and Paul, and you and I, and all of the Church Age believers when we have that meeting in the air, in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now let’s move on over to the Book of Philippians, chapter 2, and begin with verse 15.
Philippians 2:15
"That ye may be blameless (that is in the eyes of the Lord Jesus) and harmless, the sons (or the born ones) of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;"
Well we are as Grace Age believers, but remember Jesus didn’t speak that to us, but to the Nation of Israel, but now we see Paul’s using the same analogy. So as believers we are now the light of the world. Now verse 16.
"Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ,…"
Not the Day of the Lord, not the Day of judgment, but rather the Day of Christ, when the Church the Body of Christ will suddenly be translated to meet the Lord in the air. My, no wonder it’s called the blessed hope. Now let’s go back to I Thessalonians chapter 5, and let’s read verse 5.
"Ye are all the children of light,…"
I Thessalonians 5:5
Now verse 6.
I Thessalonians 5:6
If ever there was a time for believers to be wide awake and expectant, it ‘s today. Don’t fall asleep, and think, "Oh well the Lord is going to delay His coming."

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