I believe its sound advice, stay away from date setting and predictions, save yourself the embarrassment and heart ache
I don't think you know what DATE SETTING is. I don't think you know what the Hour and Day actually refers to either, especially if you don't understand the pre trib rapture (I can usually sense them in my spirit), but even if you are pre trib, the Day and the Hour has a pointed reasoning that Jesus uses that particular axiom.
Jesus said we can know the Season.
Matt. 24:32 Now
learn a parable of the fig tree; When his
branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that
summer is nigh: 33 So
likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. 34 Verily I say unto you,
This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
So, here Jesus is not telling us Israel would be reborn in 1948, he says when the fig tree puts forth its buds/leaves, you know that
SUMMER IS NEAR..........
LIKEWISE...........when you see
ALL THESE THINGS, know that (all of the signs from Matt. 24:4-31)
THIS GENERATION(which see all of the signs) shall not pass until all this (Matt. 24:31 which shows Jesus Second Coming) is fulfilled.
So, above Jesus is telling us we can indeed know THE SEASON, by looking for THE SIGNS. Lets list all of the signs as seen in Matt. 24. Lets start with the THREE QIUESTONS.
Matt. 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying,
Tell us, (1)when shall these things be?(Temples Destruction as Jesus had just foretold in verses 1-3) and what
(2)shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the
(3)end of the world?
1.) Beware of false christs in 70 AD (Fulfilled)
2.) Beware of wars and rumors of wars in 70 AD (Fulfilled)
3.) Then we are warned about the Church Age wars via nation over a 2000 some odd year period.
4.) We are also warned about Famine, Pestilences and Earthquakes, these are the Sorrows (Birth pangs)
5.) The Disciples will all become Martyrs save for John, the world will hate them and kill them.
6.) We will see Church Age false prophets/teachers over that 2000 some odd year period of time.
7.) The Gospel has to be preached unto all the world and only then can the end (70th week) come.(Rapture)
8.) The AoD happens and that which ought not stands in the most holy of holy places.
9.) The Jews flee Judea unto the Mountains in the Petra/Bozrah area where God protects them for 1260 days.
10.) The Greatest Troubles ever seen by mankind which happens during the 70th week. (post Church Age)
11.) THE False Prophet and Anti-Christ preforming miracles during the 70th week tribulation period.
12.) The Sun, Moon and Stars go dark, and the powers of heaven are shaken. (Blood Red moon Joel 2:31)
Question #1 was answered in Matt. 24:4-6
(1 and 2 above) its about the 70 AD temples destruction. The Church Age Signs are being answered now,
(3-7 above). During the 70th week signs
number 8-12 will come to pass.
What is the LAST SIGN? The Sun and Moon gives not her light (that begins the Day of the Lord God's Wrath), so as the Parable of the fig tree states,
we can know THE SEASON, thus if we can understand when the
Sun and Moon will not give her light(Asteroid Impact) we can know the day when the Day of the Lord God's Wrath starts on. Well, that has nothing to do with the rapture which will happen 3.5 years before the middle of the week. If we can know this EXACT DAY then it cant be the day Jesus is speaking about when he says you can't know the day nor hour. So, that means he Rapture will not be on the DOTL because we will be able to see that Asteroid heading our way. We also will know what day the Second Coming will happen on, exactly 1260 days after the Beast comes to power. Thus there is only ONE TIME when we can not know the exact day nor the exact hour of Jesus' coming and that is a pre trib rapture.
Now, speaking about the Day and the Hour we cant know, I highly doubt you even understand what that actually means. Jesus is speaking about the Israeli Harvest every year that is ended by the 100th Trump. Every Spring Feast Jesus fulfilled, we are now in the Summer Harvest.
Spring Feast Jesus fulfilled
1.) Passover (Jesus is our Passover)
2.) Unleavened Bread (Jesus was without Sin)
3.) Feast of First-fruits (Jesus was the first-fruits of the grave)
Summer Harvest is all alone on the Calendar just like the Church Age
4.) Feast of Weeks/Summer Harvest/Pentecost/Church Age ( We are now Harvesting Souls for the Master. When Jesus calls us home via Rev. 4:1 his voice reverberates as a Trump. The Jews (Israel) could not know the EXACT DAY of the New Year, because they are on a Lunar Calendar, thus each year they had to send out two witnesses to spy out when the New Moon came in, it could happen over a period of two days, hence Jesus' axiom that you can't know the day nor the hour. Once they got word that the New Moon (New Year was here) had been seen, they started blowing the Trumps (Feast of Trumps) and they did so in 9 sets of 11 Trumpet Blasts. Then on the very LAST TRUMP (the 100th trumpet blast) it is sounded LOUDER & LONGER) than the other 99,
thus the Last Trump officially ended the Summer Harvest (THINK Church Age).
Fall Feasts yet to be fulfilled.
5.) Feast of Trumps (This will be fulfilled when Jesus ends the Church age Pre Tribulation or pre 70th week. The Trumpets always ANNOUNCED THINGS, after it ends the Harvest or Church Age, it announces that the Feast of Atonement and Tabernacles are both nigh at hand. THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT).
6.) Feast of Atonement (Daniels 70h week Prophecy says Israel MUST ATONE before the 70th week Judgment against her is finished, we see that happens in Zechariah 13:8-9. Thus Israel ATONES during the 70th week.)
7.) Feast of Tabernacles (
To TABERNACLE means to Dwell with God, thus after Israel repents, Jesus returns and sets up his 1000 year reign in Jerusalem just like the bible says. Thus Israel will TABERNACLE or Dwell with Jesus who is God for 1000 years !! Thus all of the 7 Feasts were Holy Convocations, which simply means Dress Rehearsals of things to come. )
No one sets a DATE by knowing when the DOTL happens (Asteroid Impact that will be known) or by saying that 1260 days after that Asteroid Impact Jesus will return, so we can indeed know both of those days. But all that proves is that the Rapture can't be PRE WRATH nor the Second Coming because both days will be known entities. Now, since we know that Apophis hits on April 13, 2029 (I see no reason to believe an Asteroid coming that close will not hit, I see the signs as God saying the TIME IS AT HAND NOW, not 5 years after but NOW), then 3.5 years before that gives me the SEASON or the fall of 2025 as being THE SEASON of the Rapture. Just like the Jews knew the Harvest would end on one of two days every year, we can also know THE SEASON is at hand, just not the exact day nor hour.
I just blew up all of the Pre Wrath and Second Coming Rapture theories.:cool: