“Remember, there’s no time-clock ticking that we can discern during this current 2000-year dispensation of grace among the gentiles (’no man knows the day or the hour’) but we do know ‘the times and the seasons’, and as Children of Light, we should be aware the end of the age is very near. Certain signs like the third temple, tell us the end is very near.”
I don’t think it is correct to say we know the times and seasons. Paul said he did not need to write the Thessalonians about times and seasons, but that is because the Day of the Lord comes like a thief:
1 Thessalonians 5:1-10 (NKJV)
But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation. For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.
Consider this passage:
Acts 1:7 (NKJV)
And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.”
We do not know the day, hour, time, or season. We have been given signs that are contained in the Olivet Discourse, among other passages.
“But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.” 1 Thess 5:4-6.
We absolutely SHOULD know the times and the seasons.
The times: We are now in the beginning of the Seventh Millennium (the 21st Century) which indicates God’s rest - the time when Jesus Christ will bring rest to the earth as he reigns for 1000 years.
The seasons: The world is quickly becoming very dark as all the elements of the tribulation are quickly being put into place. In the meantime, IMO God is ready to launch Luke 14:23 - his last in-gathering of souls to be rescued from the horror shortly to come.
IMO, this 21st Century - and again the beginning of the 7th Millennium - will not end until the church and Holy Spirit are taken out of the world, the horrific Seventieth Week of Daniel occurs, and Christ has set up his rule over the Earth in Jerusalem. I believe this century will be the most amazing century ever seen
We do not know the day or the hour but have been commanded to know the season