You can't have a baby without labor pains, and those without Christ can't escape the Lord's

coming judgment. Two surprisingly similar human moments. In the same vein, Christians are

commanded to keep watch and help others do the same.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall explores how to stay spiritually vigilant during

these critical times. Our message comes from Chuck's series called Contagious Christianity.

In this next study, we'll meet a man whose expensive barometer correctly predicted a devastating

hurricane, illustrating how God's Word accurately forecasts the coming judgment.

Chuck titled his message, Like a Thief in the Night. We saw in 1 Thessalonians 4, verses 13 to 18, truth concerning Christ's coming for his own.

It was great. We all felt like cheering. If you were like me, you sang all the way back to your house.

You were thrilled to read,

The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout,

with the voice of the archangel, with the trumpet of God,

and the dead in Christ shall rise first.

And we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds

to meet the Lord in the air, and thus shall we ever be with the Lord.

Comfort one another with these words.

Let those words put their arms around you and encourage you when you're in the valley.

Those words will put a mountain in your valley.

They'll give you a reason to go on.

Ultimately, we face a very bright tomorrow.

Christ is coming. That's a marvelous truth, and we count on it, and it's comforting to us.

The Thessalonian believers were concerned about a couple of things, however.

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