No Man Knows
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 7:46PM 
I have found two interesting links related to Bible Prophecy. Both are about Harold Camping, who for the second time is predicting the return of Jesus and the rapture. His previous failure in the 1990’s has not discouraged him.
Liberty Magazine comments:
Jesus knew about this. He told his followers that no man knows the day or the hour of his Return, but that people would always be running around predicting it (Mark 13:32, Luke 21:8–9). The failed predictions, which seemed so snazzy before they failed, wouldn’t really be perceived as failures, because the failures wouldn’t be remembered, or considered interesting enough to be remembered. Watch out for predictions, he said.
Naturally as a Libertarian magazine they approach this from other failed predictions, especially economic predictions. Stephen Cox makes an interesting point about why people keep getting fooled by this kind of error. The reason is that there are always fresh people to be deceived, or as P.T. Barnum famously DIDN’T say “There is a sucker born every minute.” I was fooled by this kind of thing in the 70’s so I am not likely to repeat.
My friend and fellow blogger Pam Dewey commented on Camping in one of her blogs:
Essentially, Camping has convinced his supporters to see a large number of factors moving inexorably toward a target of the date of May 21 for the rapture, much as a “perfect storm” moves inexorably toward a tragic landfall. (perfect storm: …an expression that describes an event where a rare combination of circumstances will aggravate a situation drastically… also used to describe a hypothetical hurricane that happens to hit at a region’s most vulnerable area, resulting in the worst possible damage by a hurricane of its magnitude.) According to Camping, there’s no denying it is coming precisely when he has predicted, and no holding it back. Once it has come and gone … and all True Christians (according to Camping’s standards) are gone… all that is left for those Left Behind to do, is to wait for the final Perfect Storm to destroy the world on October 21.
I am always amazed by the fact that so many Christians do not believe what Jesus said on a number of topics. Cox mentioned that so many ignored what Jesus said about his return in his article. Here is Matthew’s version of it:
24:36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
The arrogance of someone thinking they know something that Jesus did not know is breath-taking. Whether he comes on May 21, or not, in truth it does not really matter, for our response should be the same. We should be ready. We should be in the world, yet not of the world. We need to be leaving Babylon the great, step by step.
Watch this space! As an internal note I do plan a podcast soon. This is, after all, the Prophecy Podcast!
I also wish to thank Pam Dewey for her help with this blog. Without her help and support this blog would not exist. Thanks Pam.
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Reader Comments (5)
Time is on my side...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1rX5jIJ4uU&feature=fvst
Eddie H. Nessul
Amboy, California
might be good time to pick up some realistate cheap from folks expecting to be "raptured", if ya hear of any let me know I am in the market for cheap realistate ;-)
Everything I ever needed to learn about prophecy I got from the song "In the Year 2525" by Zagler and Evans released in 1969 as "one hit wonders". PLEASE NOTE - So far, NONE, nope, not one , of their prophecies has failed...
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
You ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms hangin' limp at your sides
Your legs got nothin' to do
Some machine's doin' that for you
In the year 6565
You won't need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube
In the year 7510
If God's a-coming, He oughta make it by then
Maybe He'll look around Himself and say
"Guess it's time for the judgement day"
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake His mighty head
He'll either say "I'm pleased where man has been"
Or tear it down, and start again
In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing
Now it's been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what, he never knew
Now man's reign is through
But through eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Edddie H. Nessul
Amboy, California
Anybody know what a "Hebrew Idiom" is? If not, let me first share an English Idiom...." I'll catch you later" is an example. It means, I will meet with you at a later time. To someone from another language who has never in his life used that combination of words in their language to mean the same thing, They are trying to figure out why you want to "catch" the person...Are they going to fall??? It's puzzling. When Jesus said those words, everyone standing there thought in their head...."oh on THAT day" That makes sense!
A few languages later from Hebrew or Aramaic thru Greek, we sit here and say to ourselves...yep, no one knows. To the Hebrews, they all knew what Day He was talking about. They did not know what year, but they knew which Feast of Yahweh, He was talking about. There is only one that "no man knows the day or hour". It comes every year on a day that can not be determined until the new moon is sighted. The only feast on the first day of the month. Hebrew months start when the new moon is sighted. The other feasts are later in the month...Go to Leviticus 23 to see which days of the month they each start.
Yes, everyone knew what day He meant. By The Way, there are tons of Hebrew Idioms throughout the word. understanding them unlocks so much. Filtering them thru 2 or 3 translations and our culture leads to confusion.
I have heard that he was to return on trumpets, on Pentecost and on Atonement. I have no idea if any of these theories is right.