Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming. How then should we live? Those slumbering in the stupor of sin need to wake up. What does it mean to say the Lord will come like a thief? It means his return will be sudden. ![]() They would have understood that when Jesus said, “I will come like a thief,” he meant that he would come unexpectedly:īehold, I am coming like a thief. Just as the British are famous for their orderly queues and their love of tea, the Sardians were famous for not paying attention. (You can read the full story in my book, Letters from Jesus.) On both occasions the city fell because a brave soldier scaled the cliffs like a thief. The amazing thing is that Sardis fell twice first to the Persians in 546BC, then to Seleucid armies of Antiochus the Great in 213BC. ![]() “Remember how your city fell because you weren’t paying attention? That’s what will happen to you, if you don’t wake up.” Slumbering Sardians Telling the Sardians that he would come like a thief was a clever nod to their history. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you. Jesus sent this church a letter and in it he said this: The Jews in Sardis thrived which meant that whoever brought the gospel to Sardis had a ready audience in the synagogue.įast forward to the end of first century and we find that Sardis had a church – one of seven mentioned in the opening chapters of Revelation. ![]() One of the changes made by the Persians was they populated Sardis with Jews. The fall of Sardis was a pivot point in history for it brought the fearsome Persians to Ionia and the shores of Greece. The citadel sat atop sheer cliffs and was impregnable – or so Croesus thought.īut one night while the guards were dozing, a Persian soldier scaled the cliffs, opened the gate, and Sardis fell. Whoever controlled the river was rich, and this explains why Croesus was one of the richest kings who ever lived.Ĭroesus, who lived about 550 years before Christ, built a citadel called Sardis to protect his wealth. Once upon a time, in the iron-age kingdom of Lydia, there was a river of gold called the Pactolus River.
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