No, not really. Actually, we are commanded to wake up so He doesn't come like a thief. If you can't know His return then He will return as a thief. Tradition teaches you that you cannot know the day, but God gave us the 1260, 1290 and 1335 days. Similar to Rev 13:18.
We are commanded to
"stay" awake, not to 'wake up'. There is a difference, a big difference, and if you are getting the two mixed up, then that could be the basis of your problem. Or it could be a sign of how you get scripture so wrong....
Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. - Matt 24:42-44
If we could know the exact day and the exact hour of Christ's return, why the warnings to be prepared? To watch, to stay awake? The bible specifically tells us that
we do not know the day the Lord is coming. This passage clearly tells us that it is easy to be prepared with warning. It's easy to 'live right' in the month before September...get all your affairs and soul in order, when you 'know' he's coming. That's a cop out and NOT what scripture tells us OR how God wants us to live. He want us to STAY AWAKE! That means he wants us to live each and every day awake...like today could be the day. If I am prepared for Christ to return in the next moment, then I'm living for him now. I have oil in my lamp, I'm watching for that thief and I am longing for that blessed hope and for the Kingdom.
Therefore stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning— lest he come suddenly and find you asleep. And what I say to you I say to all: Stay awake.” - Mark 13: 35-37
Again we are told we cannot know the time...evening? Midnight? Dawn? Morning? Hence the need to
stay awake! If we are awake and watching, then it doesn't matter what time he comes, as we are ready and waiting.
(“Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!”) - Rev 16: 15
It's interesting, isn't it, that the exhortation is always to
stay awake! Not...set your alarm clock to the allotted time, so that you may catch that pesky thief when he comes! The only reason you would need to
stay awake, is if you were NOT sure of the time the thief planned to come. If you knew he was planning to come at 4 am, you'd have supper, get to bed early, have a good sleep and be up by 3 and be ready with your phone and baseball bat (or whatever!). You see the logical problems that comes here. You're consistently ignoring the biblical commands that we cannot know the date, time or hour, and you're also side-stepping the clear implications of what STAYING AWAKE
actually means.
So...if you are the one ignoring the clear meaning of scripture, the onus it on you to prove your thesis...but you can't. You just say the 'sign' proves it. Golly.
Rev 13:18 This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.
Aaand...what has this got to do with you date setting and mangling verses to do so?
Go deeper into the Word, instead of taking Rev 12:1-5 great sign for granted.
So, just because I don't believe astrology to be a particularly great way to interpret God's word, I must be taking that word for granted? That's rather presumptuous of you.
Right, but all those claims in the past did not have Rev 12:1-5 starring them in the face.
Well, of course. Silly of them, I suppose, not to consider some astrology and a famously obscure passage in the most debated book in the bible. Think of all the heartache and ridicule that could have been saved just had they. I suppose, lacking those obvious key things, they had to fall back on ignoring the date setting passages (as you do) so that they could do mathematical and biblical gymnastics to do the very thing the bible said they couldn't and shouldn't.
Well, it was prophesied to be that way. Naomi the mocker.
I am not a mocker in the sense of 2 Peter 3. I know my Lord will return, and I rejoice over that, and I long for that. But you could call me a rebuker, perhaps. I think what you are doing, what you are teaching, is harmful to Christ's Church and I don't think it is found in scripture. More over, you seem so intent to find in scripture what you want, what is not there, that you are ignoring and avoiding what is there and what is very clear. That is not safe; for yourself or for those who listen to you.
2 Chron 24:19 Although the LORD sent prophets to the people to bring them back to him, and though they testified against them, they would not listen.
2 Chron 36:16 But they mocked God's messengers, despised his words and scoffed at his prophets until the wrath of the LORD was aroused against his people and there was no remedy.
I'm sorry, but are you calling yourself a prophet? Because you do know what the bible says about God's prophets, don't you? Let's see...of course, there's the fact that your prophecies have to have a 100% accuracy...so, we might need to wait until September 24th for that. A true prophets message will only agree and build on God's word rather than disagree or contradict it. That should concern you.
What should also concern you is how frequently in the OT we find verses like this:
There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or cone who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord - Deut 18:10-12a
Divination and interpreting omens. Basically, God is very, very clear that we are NOT to look for his will in the esoteric signs of nature. And that is what you are doing. When you put that together with the fact that you're ignoring the verses about date setting...things are getting sticky. Really sticking, and I can't understand why your guts aren't clenching in dread. Mine are, whenever I read about the 'wondrous sign 2017'.
I don't mind differing in opinions, biblically. I'm okay with that, because I know I'm not infallible. I like to try and keep an open mind and be ready to learn what God and the Spirit have in store for me. But I have that line in the sand which I will not cross. And God's word being pulled, twisted and ignored...nope. Warning bells, sirens...danger. I just hope that you are not so desperate for Christ's return (and I long for it too) that you are being led astray. But...in a way...it will be better for you to be led astray, then to be leading people astray. But...those are matters I cannot know, so I will leave them to my Lord.