1 There is no need to write you, friends, about the times and occasions when these things will happen. 2 *Mt 24.43;Lk 12.39;2 P 3.10For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come as a thief comes at night. 3 When people say, "Everything is quiet and safe," then suddenly destruction will hit them! It will come as suddenly as the pains that come upon a woman in labor, and people will not escape.