This is DAY EIGHTEEN of the daily devotional.

I am releasing a 50 day daily devotional about the end-times as revealed in Scripture. Along with the text, I will be providing a video where I cover the text of the day, and Hive account@verbal-d will be providing an audio version of it. That way, whether you want to read, watch, or listen, you'll be able to enjoy this study as you wish.

The plan is to release this devotional over the next 50 consecutive days, but life may "get in the way." We will do our best, but please be patient with me if I fall behind.

The SoundCloud Audio from Hive account@verbal-d

The YouTube Video from Hive account@papa-pepper

The Text I Originally Shared on the Hive account@narrowminded Account

DAY 18 - NOT KNOWING THE DAY OR HOUR - 1

Often pretribulationists will claim that the return of Jesus is imminent. They say that His return could occur at any moment. A variety of verses will be used to supposedly support this claim. However, based on Scripture, it is impossible that this is Jesus’ teaching. The following verses have periodically been used to promote this message.

“But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” (Matthew 24:36)

“Watch therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.” (Matthew 24:42)

“Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.” (Matthew 24:44)

“The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of.” (Matthew 24:50)

“Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.” (Matthew 25:13)

“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)

“Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.” (Mark 13:33)

“Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:” (Mark 13:35)

Ripped out of context, these verses may seem to teach an any-moment return of Jesus, without any events needing to occur prior. However, all of these verses come from the “Olivet Discourse.” This is problematic for pretribulationists. They generally agree that the “Olivet Discourse” has nothing to do with the rapture because they believe that they will be raptured away from the earth before the Antichrist shows up. Since the coming of the Lord and the gathering of His elect mentioned in Matthew 24:30-31 chronologically occur after the “Abomination of Desolation” mentioned in Matthew 24:15, they must not allow this coming to be the rapture, since this timing would then contradict their pretribulational view. Also, these verses from the “Olivet Discourse” all appear in a chronological timeline.

“For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places… And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many… When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)… For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.” (Matthew 24:7, 24:11, 24:15 & 24:21)

All these verses list specific events that must occur before the return of which we are told, “But of that day and hour knoweth no man” (Matthew 24:36). We will cover more on this tomorrow.

Point: Not knowing the day or hour does not mean an event must be imminent.

CLOSER

Bear with me, as this is only part one of this particular topic. Hopefully each day is simple and slow enough for you to agree with the points that I made.

If anyone is really interested, I did post the entire volume through an alt account over a year ago. I did so as an experiment to see how hard it would be for a new user to get noticed on steemit, so I didn't let anyone know that I was doing it. You can click here to a post that has links to the entire 50 days of this devotional if you really want to read ahead. That information has always been available there since I first posted it. It is not the purpose of this series to just copy all of my previous work, but instead to transform it into some new outlets by releasing it in an audio and video format, to broaden the reach that this work has.

Again, though I will certainly never claim to know it all, I do believe that many are being lead astray by some popular beliefs. I hope that this project will be able to help many others understand the end-times more accurately. Thanks!

Just in case you are new to this series and wanted to check out the previous audio or videos, here are links to the posts from each day of this series.

Also - A special thanks to Hive account@allforthegood for helping design my cover image!

Until next time…

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50 DAYS TO UNDERSTANDING THE END-TIMES MORE ACCURATELY - DAY 18 - NOT KNOWING THE DAY OR HOUR - 1 - AUDIO & VIDEO