it's within the congregation, paulo was writing, not to those outside but to those dedicated baptized brothers and sisters in the trees, said  you know the season that it is already the hour for you to awake  so he was speaking to spiritual people, spiritually minded people and yet here he is telling them to be awake, awake from sleep or slumbers, for now our salvation is nearer than at the time when we became the leavers, and that's true with us all if you came into the truth yesterday, the time that much nearer now isn't it?