I keep seeing things like "World End 100% April 13 2016!" I wonder that people have even yet not learned their lesson from all the previous date-setters who have failed and turned out to be false prophets.
And I wonder even more, that since all these people claim to be not only Christians, but to believe in the authority and inerrancy of the Bible (it is on this that they base their faith in the biblical prophecies which predict The End), that they continue to ignore what Jesus himself said about it:
"But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." -- Matt. 24:36
"But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father." -- Mark 13:32
"Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not." -- Luke 12:40
I believe in Bible prophecy. I believe in the literal end of the age, the literal, physical return of Christ, his kingdom on earth, and all of it. And I suspect that we probably are living in or very near the end of days. But let me go on record, absolutely and unequivocally, that anyone who claims to know the date is wrong. 100%. No matter how you calculate it, how you justify it, what arguments and evidences you use from scripture or otherwise, you are wrong. Not only materially wrong, in that you are in error, but morally wrong, in that you are attempting to discover by human reason what God has hidden by divine wisdom. I've been saying it since the very first time I heard one of these theories, back in 1988, and I say it again now: NO MAN KNOWS THE DAY OR THE HOUR. Period.
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