1 Thessalonians 5:3

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1 Thessalonians 5:3

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Summary

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

Peace

Then

As

And they

Matthew 23:33

Hebrews 2:3

Hebrews 12:23

General references

Luke 17:27

Bible References

Peace

When someone hears the words of this oath, he may consider himself exempt, thinking, ‘I will have peace even though I follow my own stubborn heart.’ This will lead to the destruction of the well-watered land as well as the dry land.

After they had taken the gods Micah had made and the priest that belonged to him, they went to Laish, to a quiet and unsuspecting people. They killed them with their swords and burned down the city.

He says to himself, “God has forgotten;
He hides His face and will never see.”

My heart staggers;
horror terrifies me.
He has turned my last glimmer of hope
into sheer terror.

“Come, let me get some wine,
let’s guzzle some beer;
and tomorrow will be like today,
only far better!”

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So they brought in the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, wives, and concubines drank from them.

For they will be consumed
like entangled thorns,
like the drink of a drunkard
and like straw that is fully dry.

As the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.

“Just as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man:

“Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled from carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, or that day will come on you unexpectedly

Then

The enemy said:
“I will pursue, I will overtake,
I will divide the spoil.
My desire will be gratified at their expense.
I will draw my sword;
my hand will destroy them.”

The men of Ai turned and looked back, and smoke from the city was rising to the sky! They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now became the pursuers.

Then the men of Israel returned, and the men of Benjamin were terrified when they realized that disaster had struck them.

They spoke against the God of Jerusalem like they had spoken against the gods of the peoples of the earth, which were made by human hands.

Indeed, You put them in slippery places;
You make them fall into ruin.

One who becomes stiff-necked,
after many reprimands
will be shattered instantly—
beyond recovery.

this iniquity of yours will be
like a spreading breach,
a bulge in a high wall
whose collapse will come in an instant—suddenly!

People went on eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day Noah boarded the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

“Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled from carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, or that day will come on you unexpectedly

The assembled people began to shout, “It’s the voice of a god and not of a man!”

Look, you scoffers,
marvel and vanish away,
because I am doing a work in your days,
a work that you will never believe,
even if someone were to explain it to you.”

These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction from the Lord’s presence and from His glorious strength

For if God didn’t spare the angels who sinned but threw them down into Tartarus

and delivered them to be kept in chains of darkness until judgment;

As much as she glorified herself and lived luxuriously,
give her that much torment and grief,
for she says in her heart,
“I sit as a queen;
I am not a widow,
and I will never see grief.”

As

Trembling seized them there,
agony like that of a woman in labor,

I will say to the north: Give them up!
and to the south: Do not hold them back!
Bring My sons from far away,
and My daughters from the ends of the earth—

Therefore I am filled with anguish.
Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labor.
I am too perplexed to hear,
too dismayed to see.

I hear a cry like a woman in labor,
a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child.
The cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath,
stretching out her hands:
Woe is me, for my life is weary
because of the murderers!

We have heard about it,
and we are discouraged.
Distress has seized us—
pain like a woman in labor.

What will you say when He appoints
close friends as leaders over you,
ones you yourself trained?
Won’t labor pains seize you,
as they do a woman in labor?

You residents of Lebanon,
nestled among the cedars,
how you will groan when labor pains come on you,
agony like a woman in labor.

Labor pains come on him.
He is not a wise son;
when the time comes,
he will not be born.

Now, why are you shouting loudly?
Is there no king with you?
Has your counselor perished
so that anguish grips you like a woman in labor?

And they

“Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape being condemned to hell?

how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him.

to the assembly of the firstborn whose names have been written in heaven, to God who is the Judge of all, to the spirits of righteous people made perfect,

General references

As a pregnant woman about to give birth
writhes and cries out in her pains,
so we were before You, Lord.

We hoped for peace, but there was nothing good;
for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

All these events are the beginning of birth pains.

But know this: If the homeowner had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

People went on eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day Noah boarded the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.