Is it dawn or dusk?

As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. (John 9:4)

These are the words said by Christ Jesus. We must have heard many preachers warning us about the rule of Anti-Christ by using this verse. But some years after this verse was said by Christ, apostle Paul said something completely contradicting the above mentioned verse.

The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. (Romans 13:12)

Christ says that the night is coming. Paul says that the day is coming. Both must be correct. But between these two verses, what should we take as prophecy according to the days we live?

We see that Christ did good deeds during the time he lived on the earth. Just before he said the verse, he had healed a visually impaired man. He said this verse while discussing about that man with his disciples. The day he mentions here is the span of his ministry, three and a half years. The night that he mentions here, where nobody can work, is the time of his demise. You can comprehend when you read the whole chapter.

However, the day that Paul mentions is the era of grace, in which we live now. That is why he adds furthermore as commands to behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. If you like to preach about righteousness, preach that it is day. Well, it is day. But night is supposed to come anyhow, isn’t it? Can we consider the rule of Anti-Christ as night?

Dear readers, we are already righteous in Christ. We do not have any rightful reasons to think about the night. “The path of the righteous is like the morning sun, shining ever brighter till the full light of day,” (Prov 4:18) says the Bible. The rule of Anti-Christ is an eclipse that covers the light temporarily. It will not cause any impact on the people who are inside their houses.

When your house is busy in preparing a feast, it definitely denotes that some likeable person is going to visit your house. Nobody preapres feast for his nemesis. Every creation is getting ready to welcome the Christ, not the Anti-Christ. Because, He is the proprietor of everything.