5:1 BUT AS to the suitable times and the precise seasons and dates, brethren,
     you have no necessity for anything being written to you.
  2 For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the [return of the] Lord will
     come [as unexpectedly and suddenly] as a thief in the night.
  3 When people are saying, All is well and secure, and, There is peace and safety, then in
     a moment unforeseen destruction (ruin and death) will come upon them as suddenly as labor 
     pains come upon a woman with child; and they shall by no means escape, for there will be no
     escape.
  4 But you are not in [given up to the power of] darkness, brethren, for that day to overtake you
     by surprise like a thief.
  5 For you are all sons of light and sons of the day; we do not belong either to the night
    or to darkness.
  6 Accordingly then, let us not sleep, as the rest do, but let us keep wide awake (alert, watchful,
     cautious, and on our guard) and let us be sober (calm, collected, and circumspect).
   7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are drunk, get drunk at night.
   8 But we belong to the day; therefore, let us be sober and put on the breastplate
     (corslet) of faith and love and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
   9 For God has not appointed us to [incur His] wrath [He did not select us to condemn us],
     but [that we might] obtain [His] salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah)
  10 Who died for us so that whether we are still alive or are dead [at Christ's appearing],
      we might live together with Him and share His life.
  11 Therefore encourage (admonish, exhort) one another and edify (strengthen and
      build up) one another, just as you are doing.
  12 Now also we beseech you, brethren, get to know those who labor among you
      [recognize them for what they are, acknowledge and appreciate and respect them all]--your
      leaders who are over you in the Lord and those who warn and kindly reprove and exhort you.
  13 And hold them in very high and most affectionate esteem in [intelligent and sympathetic]
      appreciation of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.
  14 And we earnestly beseech you, brethren, admonish (warn and seriously advise) those
      who are out of line [the loafers, the disorderly, and the unruly]; encourage the timid and
      fainthearted, help and give your support to the weak souls, [and] be very patient with
      everybody [always keeping your temper]. [Isa 35:4.]
  15 See that none of you repays another with evil for evil, but always aim to show kindness
       and seek to do good to one another and to everybody.
  16 Be happy [in your faith] and rejoice and be glad-hearted continually (always);
  17 Be unceasing in prayer [praying perseveringly];
  18 Thank [God] in everything [no matter what the circumstances may be, be thankful
      and give thanks], for this is the will of God for you [who are] in Christ Jesus
      [the Revealer and Mediator of that will].

  19 Do not quench (suppress or subdue) the [Holy] Spirit;
  20 Do not spurn the gifts and utterances of the prophets [do not depreciate prophetic
      revelations nor despise inspired instruction or exhortation or warning].

  21 But test and prove all things [until you can recognize] what is good; [to that] hold fast.
  22 Abstain from evil [shrink from it and keep aloof from it] in whatever form or whatever
      kind it may be.
  23 And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you through and through [separate you from
      profane things, make you pure and wholly consecrated to God]; and may your spirit and soul
      and body be preserved sound and complete [and found] blameless at the coming of our Lord
     Jesus Christ (theMessiah).
  24 Faithful is He Who is calling you [to Himself] and utterly trustworthy, and He will also do it
    [fulfill His call by hallowing and keeping you].
  25 Brethren, pray for us.
  26 Greet all the brethren with a sacred kiss.
  27 I solemnly charge you [in the name of] the Lord to have this letter read before all the brethren.
  28 The grace (the unmerited favor and blessings) of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah)
      be with you all.  Amen, (so be it).

               The judgment and Desolation of Abomination was sent upon apostate Israel.
               The study of Matthew chapter 24 is an exciting revealing of the things Jesus told the
                disciples in regard to what John the Baptist declared in Luke chapter 3.
               The Lord Jesus declared that all He was telling would happen within their own
               generation and that the then known world which was the Roman Empire would have
               the Gospel preached to it before the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. 
               The end of apostate Israel, was the the end of the administration of the Law of Moses
               and blood sacrifices of animals in earthly temple worship.
               The Old Covenant was officially closed and the New Covenant was fully established.
                It was the sign that the Kingdom of Christ was now the heavenly order of mankind
                and that a new heaven and earth was formed.  Jesus was now the King of all nations
                ruling on the eternal throne of David and a new earth of the Spirit realm had been
                established with the sending of the Holy Ghost to administrate in the midst of the
                hearts and minds of mankind.  No longer the Old, but the New was created...
                Old Zion of the Law of Moses was no more.  The New Zion of the Law of the Spirit
                now reigns!  God is spirit and those who seek Him must do so in spirit and truth.

                1 Peter 2:9-10  NKJV
                But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special
                people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into
                His marvelous light;10 who once were not a people but are now the people of God,
                who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.

               Matt 24:14-15  AMP
               14 And this good news of the kingdom (the Gospel) will be preached throughout
               the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then will come the end.
               15 So when you see the appalling sacrilege [the abomination that astonishes and
               makes desolate], spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the Holy Place--
               let the reader take notice and ponder and consider and heed [this]--
               SEE [Dan 9:27; 11:31; 12:11.

               (Matt 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass,
               till all these things be fulfilled. KJV)

              The  Abomination of Desolation would bring total judgment upon the apostate
              nation of Israel.  It would be the end of an age and make way for the New Creation,
              Spiritual Israel, where both Jew and Gentile would become One Holy nation,
              New Jerusalem, the Church age. 
              We need to study the Jewish mission of the Apostles of the Lamb and contrast
              it with the Gentile mission of the ascension-gift apostles to receive a clear
              understanding of the fulfillment of the church's role from the period of Christ's
              ascension up to and including the events of the destruction of Jerusalem.  
              Such study will also bring clarity to the book of Revelation, its purpose, timing
              and poetic and descriptive language.  See More... Study of AD 70