“Be careful! Don’t spend your time drinking and getting drunk. Or don’t be too busy with worldly things. If you do that, you will not be able to think right. And then the end might come when you are not ready.
Jesus will keep you strong always until the end. He will keep you strong, so that there will be no wrong in you on the day when our Lord Jesus Christ comes again.
Don’t become easily upset in your thinking or afraid if you hear that the day of the Lord has already come. Some person may say this in a prophecy {\cf2\super [3]} or in some message. Or you may read it in a letter that some person tells you came from us.
But the Day when the Lord comes again will be a surprise like a thief. The sky will disappear with a loud noise. All the things in the sky will be destroyed with fire. And the earth and everything in it will be burned. {\cf2\super [13]}
“Listen! I will come, \{and it will be a surprise,\} like when a thief comes! Happy is the person that stays awake and keeps his clothes with him. Then he will not have to go without clothes, and people will not see the things he is ashamed for them to see.”
So don’t forget what you have received and heard. Obey it. Change your hearts and lives! You must wake up, or I will come to you \{and surprise you\} like a thief. You will not know when I will come.