Vocabulary: grhgore,w (gregoreo) = to be awake, to watch, alert, vigilant.

• Acts 20:31, Local Church overseers are to be alert for false teachers. Note 20:28-32.
• 1 Co. 16:13, Paul commanded the Corinthians to be alert.
• Col. 4:2, Keeping alert is part of being devoted to prayer.
• 1 Thess. 5:6, Christians are to be alert regarding the day of the Lord.  (The Day of the Lord includes: Rapture, Tribulation, Millennium, and Eternity Future.  See 1 Thessalonians 4:17, 5:3-6; Zechariah 14:1-11; and 2 Peter 3:10-13.)
• 1 Pet. 5:8, Christians need to be alert about the activities of the Devil.  Note 5:9.
• Rev. 3:2-3, The Believers at Sardis needed to “wake up” from their dead spiritual status and works.  Note 3:1b-3:3.
• Rev. 16:15, Tribulational believers will need to be alert for the Lord’s Second Advent.  Also Matthew 24:42-43.