KNOWING THE DAY AND HOUR
Simplicity is the key, as we are told in 2 Corinthians 11:3;
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Let’s take a "simple" look at what is said about this "knoweth no man" quotation, so often misinterpreted. We must not overlook the preceding statement or we will miss the simplicity of Yeshua’s words! Then we can easily know just what "day" is being spoken of.
Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, BUT my words shall not pass away.
36: BUT OF THAT DAY AND HOUR knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Mark 13:31: Heaven and earth shall pass away: BUT my words shall not pass away.
32: But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
The simplicity is this; Gods word WILL NOT PASS AWAY heaven and earth WILL, and is a day sometime NEAR THE END OR AT THE END of the millennial reign of Yeshua.
Now we ask where is "that day" found?
II Peter 3:10: But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Revelation 21:1; And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
Again, simply put, the "day and hour knoweth no man" is THE day GOD destroys HEAVEN AND EARTH and the new one comes!
Where all of the supposition comes from surrounding the return of Yeshua and this passage shows us that we are under the ‘strong deluding’ spell of the ‘traditions of men’. God gave simple instructions, perhaps we would be better off to heed them.
Deuteronomy 4:2; You shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish ought from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
Proverbs 30:5-6: 5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
6 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
Sticking to the simplicity of His Word, eliminates all of the explanations that seem to add more than is truly there.
The ‘traditions of men’ have become lies, Revelation 22:15 says to the liars and those “loving and making” them, that they will be left outside the ‘city gates’!
Unless they REPENT and come to the truth and we adhere to II Timothy 2:15 and not trust on the teachings of men. Search the scriptures, His word is true.
Giving Him the glory, gavrial