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God's Beloved Thief MATTHEW 24:37-44 Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But understand this: if the owner of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house he broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour. For those who are counting, the next millen-nium is now thirteen months and one day away. If this is a normal crowd, then some of you could care less while others are genuinely spooked by the idea, and the rest of you are somewhere in between—a little anxious, maybe, but mostly curious about what—if anything—will happen when the world's odometer turns over. As millennial fervor increases, some of us may try to distance ourselves from it, but we cannot escape altogether. The most basic formulations of the Christian faith all include the expectation of Christ's return. You can hear it when we celebrate communion: "Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again." You can hear it when we say the creed: "He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no - 3