We need to be discussing the same topic and not missing the main point.
God did not tell us the time of His (Jesus) coming. either time. It was predicted and alluded to numerous times in the Old Testament. It was known after he came. Jesus said only the Father knows the end time. We have indications to be aware of ... however every generation for centuries (and Jesus) said the end times are upon us. So? There is much not exactly known. God works His will His way. If we do not know, it keeps us ready or some of us believe so. Since He chooses to keep us in the dark for excellent reasons (being that we should be right with Him and ready for His return at any moment ...
False teaching has been since the beginning. Satan is deceitful and the Prince of this world.
Faith is faith, faith in the thing (proof) in our hand is no longer faith ... it is fact then.
IE. like hope, hope is for the thing we expect to come and desire to come and anticipate and long for it to come because when it comes, there will no longer be any need for hope.
Paul writes of this. Faith, Hope and Charity(love) and the greatest of these is Charity, LOVE!
> “God did not tell us the time of His (Jesus) coming. either time”
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That has for some reason become a common misperception.
God gave us his “times” or feasts that predicted his events with absolute accuracy.
Jesus arrived on Earth on September 29, 4 BC, the beginning of the feast called Tabernacles that foretold his coming to “Tabernacle” with us. He will return to rapture his own on the last trump of the Day of Attonement, which is timed by the new moon, which is an event that will be visible. The thing we don’t know until the season is here, is which year.
He was crucified 33 years later, late on Wednesday afternoon, at the beginning of pasach, or Passover, another day that was accurately prophecied by that feast. He arose on Saturday evening by our calendar, the end of the Sabbath, by Gods calendar, thus being his “first day of the Weeks of Pentecost, another day that was thereby prophecied.
All of his events have been foretold.