Good morning. For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. They were carrying on like usual until the day Noah enter the ark. That's because they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away. Can you blame them? There had never been anything like that before. If they saw the ark, I'm sure they made fun of Noah. I don't know how far away the nearest water was. Even if it were close by and they had built boats before, the boats would not have been anywhere nearly as big as the ark was. So shall the coming of the Son of Man be. Why wouldn't it be the same? It is absurd to think anything like what is described about the tribulation will happen. Why should they change their way of living? Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming. For the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will. Of course there have been various groups that believed they knew which day Jesus was returning. Jesus then tells a parable about a faithful slave whom his master puts in charge of his household. If he does what his master told him to, he is blessed. But if he thinks his master is not coming for a long time and does bad things to his fellow slaves, his master will come at an hour he is not expecting him to. His master will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites. Believers need to be careful about what they do also. We should behave like He could come at any moment and catch us doing something we shouldn't (of course we should be doing it because we want to). We should keep doing what His word says, even if it seems like He is not going to come during our lifetime. Father thank You that the reader walks according to Your Word because he/she wants to, not because he/she is afraid You will catch him/her doing something wrong.

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