Lulled to sleep with a false sense of security, they will be overtaken by “sudden destruction.”
Q: But what of those to whom Paul is writing, who know "the times and the seasons"?:
"But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober." Verses 4-6.
A: Clearly, “children of the light” can know something definite about the time of the Second Coming.
"But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober." Verses 4-6.
A: Clearly, “children of the light” can know something definite about the time of the Second Coming.
A: The “children of darkness” will be taken by surprise, because they haven’t searched the Scriptures, and they have not been keeping watch with soberness."
F.D. Nichol