my understanding is that there will be no warning or notice given.
And so I quote the scripture I had excerpted from my original post:
“No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.” (Matthew 24:36-41
Besides, if he were to announce a date certain, it would take all the fun out sinning and falling short of the glory of God.
As believers read the signs, they will know. I hope I’m dead by then and looking down from heaven, but that’s not for me to say.
We won’t know until just before, but we’ll have plenty of signs to go by if we read the Bible and study it. Many will still be clueless, especially the non-believers. Wouldn’t want to be them...
Anyway, it’s important to just be spiritually prepared.