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bowlbyx:

--- Quote ---1 Thess 5:6-7

6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.KJV
--- End quote ---


What is sleep here?  I figure the chosen are in the day, and the many called are in the night.  but what does sleep signify?

thanks in advanced

GOD bless
david

ertsky:
oops try again ertsky LOL!

slumber, not awake to the plan and truths of God ?

as in

Pro 6:6  Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
Pro 6:7  Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
Pro 6:8  Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Pro 6:9  How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
Pro 6:10  Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Pro 6:11  So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

as opposed to seek and keep on seeking


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hey good to see you too David :)

bowlbyx:
hey i wondered where you have been i havent seen anything posted by you in awhile.  Glad your still here

GOD bless
david

chrissiela:
David...

The previous verse gives you some of the answer:

1Th 5:5  Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.[/list:u]

Light is given to those in darkness:

Luk 1:78  Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,

Luk 1:79  To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.[/list:u]

We are awakened from our 'sleep':

Rom 13:11  And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.[/list:u]

We are resurrected from death (spiritually speaking)... passing from death TO LIFE.

We are 'awaked' out of 'sleep'... the same thing.

Sleep in this verse (and many others) is talking about those who 'walk in darkness', those who are 'asleep', those who are (spiritually) 'dead'.

Chrissie

bowlbyx:
how do i know if i am asleep or awake?

GOD bless

david

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