Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me

 Good morning. I pray everything goes well. Back to the end times: while they are saying, "peace and safety!" Then destruction will come upon them suddenly like birth pangs upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. That's part of the day coming like a thief. They will think everything is just fine. They will not be expecting judgment day. Where it says they shall not escape, the words translated "not" is actually a double negative in Greek. That means it is an emphatic "not". But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief; for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness. We should see it coming. So then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober. For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night. But since we are of the day let us be sober. And so what should we do? Having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation. This is a shortened version of the armor we put on in Ephesians chapter 6. There it is a breastplate of righteousness. For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him. Remember that Paul refers to those who are dead as being asleep. Thank You that everything will go well for the reader. Grant all of his/her requests.