No Man Knows the Day or the Hour!

By Ben Parker

Not only do we have such jewels of wisdom from history such as:

Ecclesiastes 8:7 
For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be?

Proverbs 27:1 
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

But in Mathew chapters 24 and 25, Jesus tells his followers three times that 'no man will know the hour and/or day of his return.'

Mathew 24:36 (KJV)

But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

Mathew 24:42 (KJV)

Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your lord doth come.

Mathew 25:13 (KJV)

Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

So, when I put up a post on the Feast of Trumpets (The Day That No Man Knows) being a pontential candidate for Christ's return, first to call away his elect, I am in the wrong according to all these.

People have thrown them at me a lot lately, and I know of them myself. Matthew 24:36 is especially popular.

But, if you're going to throw those last three at me, you best be familiar with the entire passage. 

Mathew 24 starts of with Jesus lamenting the destruction of the temple and segueing into signs of the future. When asked, he gives more signs to look for and then we get to 24:32 - the parable of the fig tree. Notice, it comes before all the comments of not knowing.

Mathew 24:32-33(KJV) 

Now learn a parable of the fig tree; when his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

We have been given signs of the times. We will know when he's about to return.

And, let's not forget the helper that God sent to help the Christians in their lives and in doing their lord's bidding - the Holy Spirit, which appears in Acts, and is told about at the very beginning of that book. The Holy Spirit is responsible for all kinds of miracles, including giving insight to the thoughts of our creator and savior.

The Bible is supposed to be the inspired word of God to the world. But, why does it have to stop with Paul and John? In all actuality, it really hasn't. God's been good about giving a heads up to individuals and nations. He sent Jonah to warn a very non-Jewish Nineveh of their plight and how to escape it. Jonah didn't like it, but it was done. 

If he did it for people not in the covenant then, why would he have stopped in the last 2000+ years?

In fact, Jesus tells us the second two times to watch. 24:42 launches into the man left in charge of his master's house. 

Matthew 24:48-50 (KJV)

But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, 'My lord delayeth his coming;' and shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,...

And bad things happen.

The first portion of Matthew 25 starts with the Parable of the 10 Virgins (1-13), switches to the Parable of the men given 5, 2, and 1 talents (13-30) and finally goes into the judging of nations (31-46).

Taken in context of watching for the King's return, the first parable sounds a lot like the events that happen during the feast of trumpets when people have to race to the temple before the doors are closed. That's significant to me. And, it shows we're to be prepared.

Taken in the context of watching for the King's return, the second parable sounds a lot like what we should be doing with what has been given us while we wait for his return, knowing that he will eventually come back. We will either be rewarded or punished for our activity or inactivity.

The judging of nations is a preview of one of the things that will happen during his reign on Earth.

That's right. We will be rewarded, not just punished. 2 Timothy 4:8 says we'll get a crown:

Henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

So, yeah. I watch for the signs, and I feel the lord has given me a heads-up. But, I feel, as a watchman on the tower, I should probably warn you, too. I've found I'm not the only one who has concluded Feast of Trumpets as the time, or the tetrad blood moons lining up with the Feast of Tabernacles this year as a sign that things are going to change soon.

Don't worry. It'll only be seven years of Tribulation, and it might even start out with peace and prosperity before War, Pestilence and Death & Hell follow along.

Then he will return and reign. 1000 years of peace. I actually look forward to that, because I haven't seen anything wonderful coming out of any invention of man or his oppressor.