No one knows the day or the hour. This doesn’t mean that we can figure out the week, month, and year. It means that we don’t, and can’t, know the time. How can I say this with authority? The whole point of this passage is that we are to always be expecting His return. If we were intended to be able to “discover” the secret code to figure out when He will return then we wouldn’t have to always be alert. We could drift knowing that it isn’t this week but next week.
We do know this. We do know that things will seem fairly normal in spite of the calamities Jesus mentioned earlier. Life goes on just as it did in the days of Noah. With all these calamities happening? Yes. How can that be? Well, perhaps we’ll have 24/7 news coverage to numb us to the great events shaking the world. Perhaps we will have placed our trust in something called science to rationally explain, or attempt to explain, the things that are happening to us. Perhaps we are already there.
How could Jesus have known all of this 2,000 years ago? Here is a rational explanation for you. God lives in eternity and sees the end from the beginning. Jesus was the Son of God speaking under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. He is giving us signs to look for but also telling us that there will be a powerful tendency to miss the signs. Therefore, don’t really be looking for signs so much as always be looking for Him.
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