What the Bible says about Parable of the Thief

Parables of the Olivet Prophecy
Parable	Verses	Lesson
Fig Tree	Matthew 24:32-35	Though the exact time only God knows, one can know the signs of Christ's return.
Thief	Matthew 24:36-44	Always be prepared for His coming.
Faithful and True Servants	Matthew 24:45-51	God's servants must be faithful and wise in carrying out their responsibilities and relationships in the Body of Christ.
Ten Virgins	Matthew 25:1-13	Christians must have constant contact with God to deepen their relationship with Him.
Talents	Matthew 25:14-30	Christians must constantly work with and improve upon the gifts God has given.
Sheep and Goats	Matthew 25:31-46	By serving fellow Christians, one serves his Savior.

John W. Ritenbaugh
The World, the Church, and Laodiceanism

The six parables of the Olivet Prophecy can be summarized in the following six principles:

Though not knowing the day or hour of Christ's return, we can know the signs.
God requires us to live in expectation with vigilance and constant watchfulness.
God requires faithfulness to duty and wisdom in dealing with our fellow man.
God requires preparedness through spiritual development, working on our relationship with Him, and increasing the Holy Spirit.
God requires us to grow in the grace and the knowledge of Jesus Christ (II Peter 3:18).
Christ will judge us by how we treat Him and our brethren. We cannot fool the King—He can discern true love from false love. Nobody will pass under the rod through hypocrisy.

Jesus understood what the end time would be like, and thus He gave commensurate instruction on how to overcome it and how not to be drawn into this world's distractions. A Christian cannot afford to succumb to these pressure-packed, enervating, and distracting times that we live in. These God-given principles apply to a multitude of specific circumstances: how we conduct our marriages and careers, how we rear our children, how we run our homes, how we drive a car, how we dress, how we talk, how we entertain ourselves. In every case—always—the Kingdom of God covers all parts of our lives. It covers everything all the time for those who are called in this age.

We look to the future, but we live in the present. Are we living by what we believe? Are we truly living by faith? We look for a city whose builder is God, and as His representatives we witness for Him in the way we live our lives. The Laodicean is distracted—he is living by what he sees—and is useless to Christ because he is not a faithful and true witness. The righteous live by faith not by sight (II Corinthians 5:7). And so we must live and grow as the return of Christ nears day by day.

John W. Ritenbaugh
The World, the Church, and Laodiceanism

What the Bible says about Parable of the Thief

A Verse and a Thought,Every Morning

A Verse and a Thought,
Every Morning