(5:6–11) Paul both encourages and urges the Thessalonians: because sudden destruction is coming, they must be sober and awake. 5:6 Paul continues to use sleep imagery—or rather its reverse. Believers are not to “sleep”—in the sense of becoming dulled to what is going on in these last days. They are instead fo be “awake” and “sober,” metaphors for being spiritually alert and vigilant. Christ already taught through his famous Parable of the Ten Virgins that these qualities are necessary