No One Knows The Day Or Hour

I am not suggesting that we can pin down precisely when the rapture will happen but I do believe we can get a general sense as it draws near and that we should live in light of that day and its imminence, being "on guard":

Thank you Gary for sharing your insights.

I have asked all my 4 chlldren, now with children of their own, what it might mean if I said "Let's split the scene!".........not a single one knew what I was talking about....we lost the meaning of an idiom of the 60's and 70's in English in one generation.

If we can lose the meaning of an idiom in American English in one generation, how much more so can we lose meaning from a Jewish idiom in Aramaic referring to Yom Teruah translated to the king's English today?

Hebrews 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
As ye see the day approaching
As ye see the day approaching
As ye see the day approaching
As ye see the day approaching
As ye see the day approaching
(poof)

There should be a meme of this. Lol

As I have said more than once before, it is not difficult for me to imagine that there will be some folks who, if possible, will be clinging to their mantra of "No man knows the day or the hour" even as they are being lifted from the earth to meet the Lord in the air...

Just came across this Barry Scarborough video on YouTube, which I thought was very good in making the case against the traditionally accepted interpretation of "no man knows the day or the hour."  However, the one thing that Barry neglected to include in his presentation is the fact that both the church and the rapture are, at the time of Matthew 24, unrevealed mysteries that the disciples knew nothing about.  They did not know about either of these concepts until AFTER Jesus had been resurrected and ascended.  Context...context...context.  Jewish Messiah speaking to Jewish disciples who, at the time of the conversation, knew nothing about either the church or the rapture.  Makes it more than a little difficult to make a convincing case that Jesus was referring to the rapture when He said, "No man knows the day or the hour."  Just sayin'.  Anyway, I found this message from Barry to be very worthwhile listening to. 

Good point watchmanjim.  I think I may be wrong on that point about the church being a complete mystery at that time.  I was thinking more specifically about the gentile aspect of the church, but the scripture you bring up does come before Matthew 24.  This gets a little fuzzy to me when I think of the conception of the church at Pentecost and the disciples seemingly having no real concept of what that would be like at the time of the Olivet discourse.    However, even if the church argument I initially made is not valid, it still seems to me that the entire concept of the rapture remains a mystery at that time and could not possibly be what the Lord is speaking about to the disciples in Matthew 24.  Matthew 24 has been a chapter I have wrestled with for many years, but I believe it is strictly a Jewish context that has been misinterpreted by many (including me at various times and in various ways).  

Gary, I'm a fellow-watchman, a missionary in former nazi Germany, now Western Poland, and certainly one of your biggest fans.  I deeply respect your work and research,, along with several other prophecy teachers like rabbi Mark Biltz and Amir Tsarfati and Perry Stone.   I have even shared your posts with family and close friends.   I'm not a nay-sayer, - I'm even giving a sermon on the feasts, in the coming weeks.     I want to be like the Bereans - who study the word to see that these things are true.  

There are so many signs and events that all line up this Sept like never before.  One great verse that really seems to apply here - Is Colos 2:16-17.  

Colossians 2:16-17New International Version (NIV)


16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17 These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.


Wow.  It says New Moon  - It only just occurred to me that this is FOT -- no other feast.  This is the only one of the 7 that is on the New Moon.  ;-)   Also, Paul is linking all the feasts to Messiah.  
Also interesting that all the feasts have to be done in order. 
Can't rejoice [Feast of Booths - Sukkot] until we have been Redeemed.
Can't be redeemed [Day of Atonement - Yom Kippur] until we repent.  [Feast of Trumpets - Yom Teruah]  !!  

Could you, Gary, or any other watchman, please provide any link, or source of Jewish [Non-Christian] confirmation of this idiom??  

It totally makes sense [No one knows the day or the hour, - lunar cycle, and it's hard to see, sometime cloudy, etc] but i can't find any Jewish evidence to corroborate this idiom.  
I've even contacted multiple rabbis, and asked them..   
I've also searched on google.  All i get are the same messianic rabbis and prophecy teachers.     Blessings, Gary, We are watching and awake, looking and praying earnestly for the Second Advent.  Maranatha.