[topcat54]

Usually it is the day before April 15th or whatever date the returns are due owing to holidays or weekends.

That’s about what I expected.

"The Jehovah's Witnesses, for example, thought the world was sure to end in 1914. When it didn't happen, they merely moved the date up a few years.” (Chuck Smith, Dateline Earth: Countdown to Eternity, p. 26)

"We're the generation that saw the fig tree bud forth, as Israel became a nation again in 1948. As a rule, a generation in the Bible lasts 40 years. ... Forty years after 1948 would bring us to 1988." (Chuck Smith, Future Survival)

"I'm convinced that the Lord is coming for His Church before the end of 1981." (Chuck Smith, Future Survival)

[Uncle Chip]

So what??? So some pastors overstated their understanding of the prophecies and were wrong. Does that negate Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Amos, Zechariah, Acts 1, Acts 2, Acts 15, and all the rest of the prophetic scriptures???

Tell the scoffers to go get a life.

[blue-duncan]

” When it didn’t happen, they merely moved the date up a few years.” (Chuck Smith, Dateline Earth: Countdown to Eternity, p. 26)

“. ... Forty years after 1948 would bring us to 1988.” (Chuck Smith, Future Survival)

“I’m convinced that the Lord is coming for His Church before the end of 1981.” (Chuck Smith, Future Survival)

That’s why God created erasers. Discerning the times is being alert and prepared for the Lord’s return. It is commanded, otherwise the attitude is the same as the preacher:(Eccl. 1:9)”The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”

Exodus 12:11-12, “And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’S passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.”

Mat 16:3, “And in the morning, [It will be] foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O [ye] hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not [discern] the signs of the times?”

Matt. 25:13, “Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.”