A GROOM OR A THIEF? | Part one

As we all know, there is a huge difference between a groom and a thief; in fact, these two terms don’t relate at all. What I mean is we don’t normally use this term in one context most of the time. Unless the thief stole something that belonged to the groom. Or something that goes like that.

I believe the reader doesn’t expect me to list out differences between a groom and a thief because it is obvious. What I am about to list out is how the BIBLE uses these two different terms to explain a single phenomenon that will take place in the days to come.

In a common sense, we expect the BIBLE to use these terms, “groom” and “thief,” in a compare-and-contrast way or somehow create an argument on each other. But the case is it used them to describe the same event in the same way. What is this phenomenon? It is the second coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

The BIBLE tells us that when Jesus comes back for the second time, he is going to come as a thief. And in other parts of the BIBLE, we see prophecies of Jesus coming back again as a groom to take his bride, the Church.

Now this may create confusion. Is Jesus coming back like a groom or like a thief?

The answer, from my point of view and according to the BIBLE, is both: He is coming back like a groom and like a thief. The point is that it’s not for everyone that these rules both apply. For some, he is coming back as a groom, and for some, he is coming back like a thief.

To be continued …