THE GOSPEL IS NOT "IN THE BOX"!

WHO did the earliest believers EXPECT to SUDDENLY RETURN upon a people lawLESSly UNSUSPECTING and UNPREPARED?   What says this of your RULERS?    2 Pet 3:10  The DAY OF THE LORD comes as a THEIF IN THE NIGHT; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. the earth also and the works therein shall be burned up. (Isa.19:1-5, 1Th 5:2) Rev 3:3  REMEMBER thus what you once received and heard.  Hold fast, and repent.  For if you will not watch, I WILL COME AS A THIEF, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you. Rev 16:15  BEHOLD!  I COME AS A THIEF!  Blessed is he that watches to keep his garments, else he walk naked, and they see his shame. (Mal.2:15-3:4) Mat 24:42  WATCH therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord will come. 43  But know this, if the homeowner had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house broken up. 44  So be ye also ready: for IN SUCH AN HOUR AS YE THINK NOT, THE SON OF MAN COMES!.   Mal 3:1  Behold, I will send My messenger.  He shall prepare the way before Me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall SUDDENLY come to His temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye DELIGHT in: BEHOLD, He shall come as you do not expect, says the LORD of hosts! Isa 41:25  I have raised up My CONCEALED ONE!   He shall come: like the SUDDEN ARISING OF THE SUN and shall He call upon MY Name!  He shall come upon princes as upon mortar, like a potter treads clay.  (See Isaiah 45:15, 49:1-6 NASB)