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NOBODY KNOWS THE DAY AND THE HOUR? (Part 2 of 5)
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 1 Thes. 5: 4-6
While we continue to carry a burden for Nigeria as intercessors, last week, being also watchmen and women, we began to address the growing global sounds about an imminent rapture during the Jewish Feast of Trumpets on September 23 and 24, this year 2025.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAH4Nqjzd2o; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1uk2z7jGdE&t=1266s
Whereas many observers are persuaded that so many end-time signs converging on those dates is very compelling, others are unsure, or outright resistant to the alarm, based on the scripture that no one knows the date or hour of Jesus’ return. We shall proceed to clarify that worry.
1. The Tense: Let’s start with the verb “knoweth,” and the fact that it is present tense. Nobody knows does not mean nobody should know, or nobody can know, or nobody will ever know. Unfortunately, that is how many have interpreted that scripture, thereby shutting themselves and others out of the room of privileged encounters.
2. Jesus’ Divinity: Jesus was still flesh at the time of that report. If He is also God, and God is omniscient, is it inconsistent with the nature of God to know all things?
3. The Father’s Prerogative: That verse is also misinterpreted to mean that the Father, who knows, will not or should not tell anyone, not even Jesus. But the verse nowhere says so.
4. The Amos 3:7 Principle: According to Amos 3:7, “the Lord GOD will do nothing [on the earth], but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.” That He did not reveal a matter to a prophet that we revere does not mean that He has not done so, or should not. Jesus did not say that God was never going to reveal those details. That it was sealed at a time did not mean that it was going to be sealed forever (Matthew 11:25; Daniel 12:9), but that is what many reads into the verse.
5. The Time Range: The rapture watchers are accused of having broken the scripture which says nobody knows THE DAY or THE HOUR, but the rapture alarms have pointed to no specific DAY or particular HOUR, therefore could not be charged with having broken that verse. They have pointed to a range of time within which the event was expected.
6. A Seeable Day: It says in Hebrews 10:25 that we can “SEE the day approaching.” What does it mean to “see” the day? How could the Day be unseeable and seeable at the same time? How could it be unscriptural to have SEEN what the scriptures say can be seen?
7. A Thief in the Night: Some have argued that because the Bible says Jesus would come as a thief in the night, and someone does not usually know when a thief is coming, we cannot know when Jesus is coming, and whatever we ‘know,’ therefore, is false. That interpretation misses the point in 1 Thessalonians 5:2-7, which is clear that THE DAY would only take those in darkness by surprise, not the sons of light.
8. Another Name: If “No one knows the day or the hour” is a Jewish phrase for describing the Feast of Trumpets, then Jesus was actually naming the day in the very expression by which it seemed He was coding it.
PRAYER POINTS
1). 1 John 4:1
Pray that God will confirm His truth about the coming of the Lord and deliver His people from the error of the five foolish virgins.
2). 1 Thes. 5:1-5
Pray for light to the people of God, so that the coming of the Lord will not catch them unprepared and unaware.
3). Lev. 17:11
Plead the Blood of Jesus to make atonement for your soul and that of the members of your family.
4). Luke 21:34-36
Pray for grace to be accounted worthy to escape all the evils coming upon the world, and to stand before Jesus Christ in glory.
5). 1 Tim. 2:3-4
Intercede for the salvation of all unsaved souls, that they shall come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.
6). 2 Tim. 2:22
Intercede for the deliverance and salvation of the youths of this generation. Pray that God will deliver them from the snares of the devil and save their soul.
7). Is. 49:25-26
Intercede for the safety and deliverance of the Wailing Women kidnapped recently on their way from a conference
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