I do believe Roman’s 13:12 is saying it’s still night. It’s at hand as in the Day is soon coming ( Jesus is coming soon, morning or night or noon
Many will meet their doom, trumpets will sound
All of the dead shall rise, righteous meet in the skies
Going where no one dies, heavenward bound) , thief in the night is a reference to that exact idea, Jesus is the thief stealing us in the night from who? Satan!
2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night
and the second Part is reference that this day is much longer than a day, but extends all the way to end of his millennial reign till the Great White Judgement throne
in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
What do you think of that Jerry?