Verse 12
Here Paul was thinking similarly to the way he thought when he wrote 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11. The night represents our earthly life plagued as it is with spiritual darkness and danger. When the Lord Jesus calls us to Himself at the Rapture, a new day will begin for us in which we will walk and live in sinless light. In view of this prospect we need to prepare for it by laying aside evil deeds as a garment and putting on deeds of holiness. Paul called these new clothes armor because we are still at war with sin and the forces of evil (cf. Ephesians 6:11).
"Christ’s return is the next event in God’s plan; Paul knew it could take place at any time and sought to prepare Christians-both in his generation and in ours-for that ’blessed hope.’" [Note: Moo, p. 822.]
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