When Do You Think Ou Lord Will Come?
Jesus said that no one knows the day or hour of his coming. In the Greek vernacular, this also includes month, year, decade, century, and millenium. Jesus said that even He didn't know the time. For anyone to presume to know or guess when Jesus will come is boarding on, If not is, blasphemy. You are saying you know more than Jesus and that God revealed something to you that He didn't reveal to His Son.Matt 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angel of heaven, but my Father only. Everything in the Bible must be taken in context. Often, the Bible says something that isn't meant for everyone. Matthew 25 tells the story of the foolish virgins and the wise virgins, obviously a metaphor for those who are of God and those who are not. When the foolish virgins come to God asking something of Him, He says: "Verily I say unto you, I know you not. Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh." The Bible is directing the "you know not the day nor the hour" thing to those who are not keeping watch! Luke 12 gives a very similar story, about the good servant and the evil servant, where the good servant is of God and the evil servant is not of God. Peter then asks, "Who is this parable being spoken to - us, or everyone?" The Lord replies: "But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware..." The "day or hour that no one knows" is being directed not to His followers, but to the unsaved, the people who are too caught up in the cares of this life to notice these things. God did not leave his people totally in the dark as to when He shall return. And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled. - Luke 21:29-32. The Parable of the Fig Tree represents the restoration of Israel. He says that the generation that sees this fulfilled will not pass away (i.e. die completely) before Jesus returns. Israel was restored as a nation in 1948. Therefore, we know that this is the generation of the Second Coming. Daniel 12:9, 10 - "And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand." This passage tells us that the knowledge of prophecy and the end times will not be known by humans until the time of the end.
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