The Messiah has come..
as a thief in the night.
Let those with understanding keep watch.
The "thief in the night" refers to how he will show up UNEXPECTED to many. Not that he sneaks in through the window.
READING COMPREHENSION is your friend.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 757124Exactly, this verse means that Jesus Christ will come unexpectedly.
But the Second Coming of Christ is an event that we can know the EXACT DAY, when He will come. Daniel gave specific day counters as well as Revelations that say specifically that it will be so and so many days AFTER the Anti-Christ starts all of this with the signing of the peace treaty with Israel and many others for 7 years.
But it says in the midst of that treaty, exactly 3 1/2 years the anti-christ will forfeit on that treaty he made and cause the abomination that causes desolation. Then from that point on Daniel gives the count of days that the anti-christ will reign until he is brought down.
All this you can find in various internet sites. Heck just google Dewey Bruton and watch his Daniel's timeline series.
Although I don't agree completely with his research and conclusion, I do believe he is on to something.
It is the RAPTURE event that no man knows the day or hour to, NOT the 2nd coming, which we will know exactly the time when Jesus Christ comes back, once we know when the starting point of the TRIBULATION starts.
