Friday, November 11, 2016
Matthew 24:36 No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven.
UNKNOWABLE ... BUT CERTAIN
A question many have asked down through the years is: When will the Last Day arrive? Many have foolishly attempted to forecast it. Years ago I received a pamphlet in my mailbox: "88 Reasons Why the Rapture Could Be in 1988." Needless to say, the "reasons" were bogus (not to mention that the very notion of a so-called rapture of the Church into heaven before the Last Day is bogus since it's nowhere taught in Scripture).
The Lord has revealed to us that the day of His second coming is unknowable. Jesus said: "Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed" (Luke 17:26-30). Peter testified: "The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night" (2 Peter 3:10). Paul: "While people are saying, 'Peace and safety,' destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape" (1 Thessalonians 5:3).
But the Last Day will come! Most certainly! Then all who have anchored their hopes in Christ Jesus will lift up their heads with joy knowing their heavenly homecoming day has arrived!
