Thinking on these:   
      
    Rembering the parable of the servants given a talent and the   
    master goes away, and when he returns he inquires what they did   
    with the talent...   
      
    I was hungry and you gave me to eat...   
      
    I believe the warning is that Jesus will come like a thief in   
    the night, secretly, but the penalty for not being watchful will   
    not be for not watching your property, but not being watchful   
    over your duties. Not having kept to what you knew you were   
    supposed to do, feed the hungry, give drink to the thirst, etc.   
      
    And all this "End times" concern is misplaced. Praying harder   
    and supporting Israel to bring on the second coming are acts of   
    pride, not devotion. Feeding the hungry and careing for the sick   
    etc are what we need to focus on.   
      
    JS> "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the   
    JS> angels of heaven, but my Father only . . . Watch therefore:   
    JS> for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know   
    JS> this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what   
    JS> watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and   
    JS> would not have suffered his house to be broken up . . . The   
    JS> lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh   
    JS> not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,"   
    JS> Matthew 24:36, 42-43, 50, KJV   
      
      
      
    JS> "Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour   
    JS> wherein the Son of man cometh."   
    JS> Matthew 25:13, KJV   
      
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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