For those in Christ Jesus today, this matter is one of the most important commandments He gave that we are to be doing in these last days, leading up to His return.
Mark 13:35-37
35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
36 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
KJV
He didn't say maybe you ought to 'watch'. He said to "Watch", and that is a command!
Watch what?
Some Churches will throw at you a bunch sensationalist signs, preaching about earthquakes, starvation statistics, wars, great storms happening, chaos and murder in the overcrowded cities, etc. Some of them will then tell you don't worry, because you won't be here for the tribulation, (so basically rely on them instead, is what those are really saying). That isn't showing us what our Lord Jesus wants us to be 'watching'.
What did our Lord Jesus show we need to be watching, and where did He show us in His Word?
He showed us in His Olivet discourse of Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21, Bible chapters that I repeatedly try to get brethren to study for our times, because in that Jesus gave us the main Signs of His Revelation about the end of this world, leading up to His 2nd coming.
Those Signs are what Apostle Paul was talking about in 1 Thessalonians 5:1-3 with "the times and the seasons", saying he didn't need to show those brethren there, for they already knew them.
Do you know them? Are you watching like Lord Jesus commanded us?
Mark 13:35-37
35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
36 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
KJV
He didn't say maybe you ought to 'watch'. He said to "Watch", and that is a command!
Watch what?
Some Churches will throw at you a bunch sensationalist signs, preaching about earthquakes, starvation statistics, wars, great storms happening, chaos and murder in the overcrowded cities, etc. Some of them will then tell you don't worry, because you won't be here for the tribulation, (so basically rely on them instead, is what those are really saying). That isn't showing us what our Lord Jesus wants us to be 'watching'.
What did our Lord Jesus show we need to be watching, and where did He show us in His Word?
He showed us in His Olivet discourse of Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21, Bible chapters that I repeatedly try to get brethren to study for our times, because in that Jesus gave us the main Signs of His Revelation about the end of this world, leading up to His 2nd coming.
Those Signs are what Apostle Paul was talking about in 1 Thessalonians 5:1-3 with "the times and the seasons", saying he didn't need to show those brethren there, for they already knew them.
Do you know them? Are you watching like Lord Jesus commanded us?