Ping list worthy?
No it doesn't. It tells us to watch for the signs of it.
Thanks for the post. I’m preaching on 2 Peter 3:1-10 on the Lord’s Day (Going through 2 Peter). I’ve titled it “Last Days Madness,” title supplied by Gary DeMar’s book. You’ve given me some more failed predictions.
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Yes, there are a few “kooks” who are actually setting an exact date, but most believers are being watchful, and discerning that indeed we are in the “end times”. Yes, no man can know the hour, but we can certainly know, and are commanded to discern the season.
God already knows what is going to happen and when...what does it matter if man knows? We’re certainly no going to change it.
Spurious end-time prophecies also have a long track record.
Just as a link of interest, speaking of false prophets, here's a bit of Harold Camping's history: "JUDGMENT DAY, MAY 21, 2011? - HAROLD CAMPING & The UNTOLD STORY ".
When Camping’s first prediction failed, claiming miscalculation, he then began to reinvent his scheme with the idea that God ended the church age. “Sometime earlier” wrote Camping, “God was finished using the churches to represent the kingdom of God.”[3] In his book “We Are Almost There!” we find that Camping chose the date of May 21, 1988 for the end of the church age.[4] Why this particular date? In an obscure time scheme combined with strange mathematical formulas, Camping was able to secure this date as the end of the church age. The common answer heard over the Open Forum was that around thirty-five years ago God began to open the true believer’s understanding to know the entire timeline of history—a justification based on an obscure interpretation of Eccles. 8:5, and other detailed and often confusing studies in numerology.What Harold Camping conveniently chose not to reveal is that May of 1988, reputedly, was the month the Alameda CRC began censuring Camping from teaching the adult Sunday school class.[5] Though, according to bulletin records, the official announcement of the reorganization of the Sunday school class without Camping as the teacher was made public in the Sunday bulletin on June 5, 1988, the controversy climaxed in the weeks prior to this date, on or around the May 21 date. After a summer of conflict, church visitors were sent to assess the situation and turmoil in the congregation, and supported the Consistory’s decision to deny Camping the privilege of teaching. The official date the elders took over the adult Sunday school class was September 11, 1988.
It takes a fair bit of megalomania to hold that one, in one's own person, has eschatological significance.
Note also, he was also given to saying, as some of our more excitable dispensational friends are, “yes, but we can know the month and the year.”
It was difficult to keep reading after that one. But I did and give a resolute AMEN! to the author's Scriptural caution that we should refrain from "vain jangling" and instead work to bring in the harvest, fully aware none of us knows "at what hour I will come upon you."
The hour doesn't matter. All that matters is that men "repent and believe" now.
And not invite canines to the Lord's Supper.