No One Knows the Day or the Hour - By Gene Lawley -http://raptureready.com/featured/lawley/lawley109.html
Much has been said and written about that statement of Jesus, as to its implications and applications. It is the thought behind the parables of Jesus, teaching His disciples, and those following, the importance of faithfulness in our given stewardship responsibilities. Likewise, if we do not know the day or the hour, then knowing the specific year, month or week is not likely, either.
So we understand the importance of the next enlightenment Jesus opens up to us in regard to that day and hour-"when you see these things begin to happen...." Paying attention to the "signs of the times" is the way to "watch, for you do not know at what hour your Lord may come."
A somewhat related event that sometimes gets tangled up with the "no one knows the day nor the hour" is the incident involving that last question the disciples had for Jesus just as He was beginning to ascend into the heavens in a cloud, as recorded in Acts 1:6-7:
"Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, 'Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?' And He said to them, 'It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.'"
In other words, the Father has an appointed time for that to be fulfilled. Obviously, then, He had set an appointed time, and He did it, on May 14, 1948. So that incident had nothing to do, directly, with the coming of the Son of Man. It was, in fact, though, the door-opening event to begin the last of the latter days of this age.
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