But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone. (Matthew 24:36)I read again of a guy who has a book out (at least it is free) that says that 2011 will be the last year for the human race as it is now, that God will come again either in late 2011 or 2012, I was not sure. Either way, he is full of beans.
Jesus made it clear here and in a couple of other passages that nobody knows when he was going to come back, not even himself. When he comes back, it will be like a thief in the night. In other words, it will be suddenly. We will be standing around doing stuff like normal and then – bang! – he will be here.
And one thing is for sure – I have said this before and will say it again – if God the Father did not tell Jesus when he was coming back, he sure isn’t going to tell some preacher so he can have a book, website and followers. That is for certain.
If he did, he would be placing that man or woman above Jesus. And you remember that Jesus is King. Nobody is above him. It is arrogant to presume such.
I suppose that it is fear of the unknown. We feel we have to unlock all the mysteries of space and time. We cannot stand it that God has a secret and we are dying to know it. That is part of the human psyche, I guess. We want to know the unknowable.
Deuteronomy 29:29 says The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law. In other words, we have our stuff and God has his stuff.
He has revealed to us the “mystery” that the Old Testament people were looking for so hard in order to show us Jesus. That mystery, of course, was Jesus and his redemptive power. It was grace triumphing over law. It was manifest love.
Just being able to look into a Bible makes us more aware of the will of God than people living even 300 years ago. We have greater access to the written word than the vast majority of humanity through history. But yet we want more.
And wanting more is not necessarily bad. But when you start making up stuff for those who are desperate for more, you sin the sin of both arrogance (the presumption that you know something even Jesus didn’t know) and either you commit the sin of lying or it is just that you are crazy.
In the movie Braveheart, there was a man who claimed to talk to God as we talk to each other. It was obvious that he was mentally unsound and everyone around, including himself, knew it.
Those who claim to speak for God on hidden things are either liars with an agenda of self-aggrandizement or crazy. They are not prophets.
Just ignore them.
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