Keep watch. You can’t keep watch if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
Your point was to dismiss all signs of the end times because nobody knows the DAY or HOUR, the very specific time of His appearing.
But we can know that it is close because of the other warning signs that JESUS HIMSELF told us to look for to know that His return was nearing.
If you don’t like that we are doing that, then take it up with Him for telling us what to look for.
And you’re changing the subject too, and accusing others of something not being discussed. Nobody here is advocating not living righteously. Matter of fact, the more we know HIs return is close but don’t know the specific moment the more incentive it is to live righteously.
“And you’re changing the subject too, and accusing others of something not being discussed. Nobody here is advocating not living righteously. Matter of fact, the more we know HIs return is close but don’t know the specific moment the more incentive it is to live righteously.”
Unfortunately, the constant speculation that some people engage in makes them vulnerable to scammers and false prophets claiming revelation and knowledge of when Jesus returns. These terrible sinners have tricked millions of Christians with their false prophecies designed to get money for themselves.
I’m not saying you are doing that, but it is indisputably true that many false prophets and vainglorious pseudo-intellectuals have stolen from the Lord’s flock.
And I do go back to Jesus’s command to not care about the future except to say that it is in God’s hands. We preach the gospel with urgency and live according to its commands, but we do not burden ourselves with things that we cannot control. This is what the command to be as little children means, and also to consider the sparrow and the lily.