42 3 4Through the Bible with Les Feldick The Day Of Christ vs. The Day Of the Lord: I Thes. 5:1-12

I Thessalonians 5:7-8 "For they that sleep (spiritually) sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. (now he comes back to us believers) 8. 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." These are the same things that he listed in Ephesians chapter 6. Now verse 9, and oh what a tremendous lesson for believers. I Thessalonians 5:9a "For God hath not appointed us (as believers ) to wrath. but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ," Now isn't that plain? Now these people that are insisting that the Church is going to go into or through the Tribulation, they just have to blink and miss this verse. But here it is, as believers we are not appointed to the day of the Lord, the day of judgment, the day of wrath. I don't care whether they want to call it the Tribulation or the eternal destiny to come, it's still the same premise, that those of us who are part and parcel of this day of Christ are out of here before the day of judgment falls on this planet, and over and over Paul makes that so plain. But on the other hand, what I've learned from our mail, from talking to people that call, when everyone who says they can't agree with my stand on the Rapture, they hardly ever look at Paul's epistles. All the verses they give me to back up their theory is Old Testament, the four gospels, and Revelation, which of course are all attendant with the Tribulation and the day of the Lord.