Do you believe that scripture says that He is coming when you least expect it? and that we cannot know when that will be? and that anyone giving warnings in this day and age are nothing but *false teachers*? We are told to: 1) watch, so that that time does not overtake us, and 2) the scripture regarding the "thief in the night" is speaking of UN-believers, not believers. Mat 24 & 25, Mar 13, Luk 17 & 21, 1Th 4 & 5, much of Rev as well as many other passages, speak quite clearly about when He will return, and the signs thereof.
--> These speak of what "hour" &/or "day", it does not say we won't know the month, season, or year ...
Mat 24:36 "But of >>>that day and hour<<< knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only."
Mat 24:42 "Watch therefore: for ye know not what >>>hour<<< your Lord doth come."
Mat 25:13 "Watch therefore, for ye know neither the >>>day nor the hour<<< wherein the Son of man cometh."
--> These speak of those that are NOT watching for His return ...
Mat 24:48-51 "But and if that >>>evil servant<<< shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; 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, And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
Rev 3:3 "Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt >>>not watch<<<, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what >>>hour<<< I will come upon thee."
Rev 16:15 "Behold, I come as a thief. >>>Blessed is he that watcheth<<<, and keepeth his garments, >>>lest<<< he walk naked, and they see his shame.
--> As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be when the Lord returns.
Mat 24:37 "But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."
Luk 17:26-27 "And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all."
What was it like in the days of Noah? Did the Lord give Noah any notice? Yes! He did ...
Gen 7:4 "For yet >>>seven days<<<, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Gen 7:10 "And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth."
Gen 7:16 "And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in."
--> As it was in the days of Lot, so it will be when the Lord returns.
Luk 17:28-30 "Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed."
Was Lot notified before Sodom & Gomorrah were destroyed? Well, yes, he was ...
Gen 19:1 "And there came two angels to Sodom >>>at even<<<; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; ...
Gen 19:12-13 "And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place: For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it."
Gen 19:16-17 "And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed."
Gen 19:20-22 "Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live. And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken. Haste thee, escape thither; >>>for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither<<<. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar."
Gen 19:23-25 ">>>The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar<<<. Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground."
I think we CAN know: anytime from a year, a season, a month and possibly even a week in advance; we will know by the *signs* ...
Mar 13:35-37 "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: Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch." - Jesus {at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing (dawn), or in the morning ... all parts of >>>a day<<<}
