Okay guys, I thought we were not to know the day or time of...
Acts 1:7
"Jesus replied, "It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority."
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There's three audiences:
1. The world
2. The people Jesus was addressing
3. The future generation
You cited the guidance for audience #2.
Acts 1:6 So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7 He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has fixed by his own authority. 8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you ...
Mark cited the guidance for audience #3:
Mark 13
28 “From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near. 29 So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that he is near, at the very gates. 30 Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away before all these things take place. 31 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
32 “But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 33 Take heed, watch; for you do not know when the time will come. 34 It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to be on the watch.
Now the church FALSELY teaches that because no man can know the hour or the day, that we can't know the:
Week; Month; Season; Year (1); Decade (10); Score (20); Century (100); Daytona (500); or Millennia (1,000). This is an ILLEGAL extrapolation of the TEXT.
First of all, if a person were proficient in the FEASTS, he could know which multi-day FEAST Jesus would return in. But I have no such expertise.
Secondly, Scripture provides the year, and discernment suggests in the Fall, and that's all I need to know. But there's one more clue which helps define the approximate window:
Last year on May 7th, President Trump recognized Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel. And it's my observation that Trump's action agrees with a Prophetic Psalms* basis to conclude that we entered the Tribulation a year ago. Thus 42 months later we should arrive to an approximate November 7th, 2021 window, which is most likely plus or minus a couple weeks for a variety of calendar/legal-declaration/FEAST variabilities.
Or you can always be
surprised:
1 Thess. 5:3 When people say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child, and there will be no escape. 4 But you are not in darkness, brethren, for that day to surprise you like a thief.
* Ref. J.R. Church "
Hidden Prophecies In The Psalms"
Personally, I don't like
SURPRISES. :)
Bobby Jo