Thinking on these:

 Rembering the parable of the servants given a talent and the
 master goes away, and when he returns he inquires what they did
 with the talent...

 I was hungry and you gave me to eat...

 I believe the warning is that Jesus will come like a thief in
 the night, secretly, but the penalty for not being watchful will
 not be for not watching your property, but not being watchful
 over your duties. Not having kept to what you knew you were
 supposed to do, feed the hungry, give drink to the thirst, etc.

 And all this "End times" concern is misplaced. Praying harder
 and supporting Israel to bring on the second coming are acts of
 pride, not devotion. Feeding the hungry and careing for the sick
 etc are what we need to focus on.

 JS> "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the
 JS> angels of heaven, but my Father only . . . Watch therefore:
 JS> for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know
 JS> this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what
 JS> watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and
 JS> would not have suffered his house to be broken up . . . The
 JS> lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh
 JS> not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,"
 JS> Matthew 24:36, 42-43, 50, KJV



 JS> "Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour
 JS> wherein the Son of man cometh."
 JS> Matthew 25:13, KJV



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