Apostle Paul instructed by the Holy
Ghost saying that ‘you should not allow that day of the Lord to overtake you as
it is written:
“But ye, brethren, are not in
darkness, that that day should overtake
you as a thief. Therefore let us not sleep, as others [do]; 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.”(KJV) 1 Thessalonians 5:4,6-7
He was talking to you as children of
light, light bearers, Christians or believers in Christ Jesus, and yet he says
you should not allow that day to overtake you.
The question is that how can a
day overtake a person? The answer should now be clear to you that such persons
(whom the day should overtake) are those not watching or redeeming the times in
prayers by the time revealed. And that is why he continued to say in the same vain
that you should not sleep as others do. How do others sleep?
They way others
sleep is that they are not mindful of the time of prayers so they sleep and
slumber by the Time when they should not.
They are those that are drunken maybe
not by wine but by ignorance, pride, unbelief, food etc to sleep by the night
against the time. These are those that the day will overtake or keeps
overtaking against their triumph.