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To: Bullish
NO man knows the time or the day except God in heaven. Anyone who tells you different is a liar.

Exactly! Jesus said that even the Son of God doesn't know the day or hour - only the Father. Some people apparently think they can know something even Jesus Christ does not know.

44 posted on 08/09/2017 9:43:04 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: plain talk
Some people apparently think they can know something even Jesus Christ does not know.

Yup, how stupid is that?

53 posted on 08/09/2017 10:32:38 PM PDT by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: plain talk

According to the following site- Jesus was talking about His second coming- not the rapture- the disciples didn’t even know about the rapture at that point- PaUl was told about the rapture much later- consider the following:

“And all that would be fine if the Rapture was in fact the subject of Jesus’ conversation when He uttered those words: “But of that day and hour knoweth no man...”

But was that the subject of His conversation? The answer lies in the scripture itself.
So, let’s go into the scripture of Matt 24 and find out.

Matt 24:1-3
24:1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to show him the buildings of the temple.

24:2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the age?

So here in verse 3 we find the Apostles asking Jesus questions that He then proceeds to answer throughout the remaining verses of the chapter.

“and what shall be the sign of thy coming”

The ‘coming’ of Jesus being asked about here is of His ‘second coming’ not the Rapture of the Church. The Apostles could not have been asking Jesus about the Rapture of the Church as they had no knowledge at this time of the promise of Rapture. The promise of Rapture was told to Paul much later.

The Second coming of Christ and the Rapture of the Church are two separate events that take place on opposite ends of the seven year tribulation period. The Rapture precedes the seven year tribulation period and the Second Coming concludes it.

All of the study that we do in Matt 24 confirms in detail that Jesus is explaining to the Apostles of His second coming at the conclusion of the seven year tribulation period when He says in verses 29-30:

Matt 24:29-30
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

30 and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

And in verse 35 Jesus goes one step further in the time frame of future events when He says to them, “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.” Jesus is emphasizing that His word lasts forever; even longer then the time when heaven and earth will pass away.

And now, immediately after v.35 where Jesus has just told them that heaven and earth will pass away, we come to verse 36 and He says:

“But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.”

That is the day that ‘no man knoweth’. The day when heaven and earth pass away! Heaven and earth do not pass away at the Rapture of the Church!”

http://www.truthroom.com/farticle/can_we_know


63 posted on 08/10/2017 12:19:32 AM PDT by Bob434
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