No One Knows the Day, Part 1: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:00 Having a great life in Jesus Christ as we look into the scriptures in another session on present truth as 2 Peter 1:12 declares to us be established in present truth truth for your time your generation your person we want to remind you that Ecclesiastes chapter 3 tells us that God has a purpose under heaven he has a purpose on earth and he does those purposes in seasons and times also we want to remind you of 1 Chronicles 12:38 the children of Israel, of Issachar, I’m sorry had understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do and we trust when we’re finished with this session you the Israel of God the spiritual Israel God’s people Christians will have understanding of your present generation your present time and know what you ought to do.

▶ 1:01 In this session we’re going to deal with no one knows the day or the hour and the times and the seasons which God has put in his own hands. Acts 1:6 says it’s not for you to know the times or seasons which the father has put in his own authority Matthew 24:36 and Mark 13:32 no one knows the day or hour. Matthew 25:13 you know neither the day nor the hour wherein the son of man comes. Matthew 24:44, Luke 12:40, and such an hour as you think not the son of mankind wow.

▶ 1:54 As you think not you’re not even thinking about it, bingo, God comes. We’re going to look at in spite of the fact that no one knows the day or at the hour. Mankind has been trying to predict it ever since Christ left the earth. In the early church they come up with the earth timeline is similar to the seven days of creation God created the earth in seven 24-hour days but the earth’s historical chronology is a thousand years is one day 2 Peter 3:8.

▶ 2:46 So we presuppose. Now the Bible doesn’t say that but we presuppose that. A thousand years as a day God created the earth and six days and then rested the seventh day so the seventh day would be the millennium the thousand year reign of Christ and there would be six thousand years up to when Christ’s return and as you know he has it right. But we come up with these numerology. These little things that we say open up when God tells us we don’t know we look back at him and say yes we do we got a little chart here to prove it. All right so the second coming would be before the seventh day millennial reign of Christ now.

▶ 3:41 They believe that the gospel has to be preached to all nations they believed in the conversion of Israel before he comes the falling away the tribulation and the revealing of the man of sin the antichrist the antichrist has always been a focus on people predicting the end time and so some of our church fathers believed in the pre-millennial second coming of Jesus Christ then a thousand year reign others says no it’s not an actual thousand years Christ is ruling now his kingdom is now his kingdom is eternal his kingdom has always been and he’s always been a king and he always will be a king. We don’t have to wait we got victory from the at the cross see.

▶ 4:39 And we know the king now and when he comes will recognize him who he is they believe that church is spiritual Israel that the old and new covenant uh is one covenant. And they believe that the kingdom is not temporary. They believed in one second coming, one resurrection, one judgment and one eternal kingdom okay. No seven years of tribulation but they did believe in tribulation. They just didn’t take Daniel’s 70th week and stretch it over two thousand years or more than that over two thousand years to the end time all right then you got.

▶ 5:31 The tribulation people which is very popular today everywhere you go this is preach. Especially in fundamental circles spirit-filled circles and so forth okay so they believe here’s Jesus coming here’s the cross they believe that he can come any moment. Everything is ready he can pop through the sky at any time. All right they. Get the scriptures to say he’s going to come and rapture his church in a secret coming. You know two people are on a plane all sudden of a one’s gone the other remained two people are in a car the driver’s gone and the passenger wrecks you’ve seen all the pictures you’ve heard all the tales.

▶ 6:29 Secret. Pre-tribulation rapture then seven years of tribulation but the saints are taken out so they don’t go through any trouble saints are taken out all right. Then. Christ is going to come back again to judge the nations so he’s coming back a third time. Came the first time as the savior came the second time to secretly take out his people and he’s coming a third time to judge the nations and then after the millennium. He’s gonna come another time. To lose Satan on the earth my gosh Christ is up down up down up down up down.

▶ 7:23 Pre-trib, mid-trib, post-trib mid-trib is really not I I don’t meet anybody with mid-trib anymore that just kind of went away but it’s pre-trib or post-trib. John Darby started this thing basically D.L. Moody bought into it Scofield bought into it the Dallas seminar, the spirit-filled seminar down there bought into it the Baptist bought into it Hal Lindsey wrote a book about it Late Great Planet Earth missed all over the place and just rewrote it and made another million dollars correcting his first mistake rewrote it again made another million dollars or more you know correcting his second mistake rewrote it he’s rewritten it about seven times. Because his predictions was wrong. And people keep buying these books and they just keep getting richer these people Tim LaHaye movies and books made a fortune of a God’s people.

▶ 8:31 So in spite of the fact that we don’t know the day of the hour everybody. Is saying except me except me I’m the spiritual one I got revelation this is how it’s going to work out I got a chart and. I know and we worship them we idolize them buy their books listen to them instead of reading the Bible for ourselves. These failed end-time prophecies that by the way no one knows the specifics of the Bible says distracts followers of Christ from the great commandment that sum up and fulfills the prophecy, the prophets and the laws and it also makes the church look mad looks stupid look crazy like the word lunatics.

▶ 9:31 When we predict that nothing happens and we we just make another prediction. It’s impractical to outsiders. And it really confuses baby Christians and we lose a lot of baby Christian to cults from foolish prophecies. Now Christ’s second coming when predictions fail I’m going to give you a history of this. And we’re going to start at 400 AD the Bishop of Tours said the end time would be at 400 AD and the antichrist was already born focus on the antichrist the big bad antichrist the big bad beast. A Christian of Rome, of a renowned Christian of Rome, Julius,

▶ 10:23 he through numerology calculated the dimensions of Noah’s ark to say that Christ and the world would come and the world would end in 500 AD okay here’s numerology. Spanish monk said it would come in 793 the Bishop Gregory said he would come in 800 AD Pope Sylvester the infallible popes. And many others see the millennium is coming. A thousand years and everybody’s focused on this millennium a thousand years thousand years of the day days of the thousand years you know Christ is going to reign thousand years everybody every time the thing clock turns over a thousand years he’s coming he’s coming and many people many preachers and many Christians believed that Christ would come in the world would end from his birth or at least his ascension unto heaven his death on the cross and ascending up to heaven and they missed the infallible pope goofed.

▶ 11:28 Another pope Pope Innocent III said no Christ is going to come in 1284 AD because that’s exactly 666 years after the rise of Islam there’s that infatuation with the number 666 the antichrist numerology numbers. It all started way back there folks there’s nothing new and they’ve all missed ever since they started. Many during the black plague of 1346 and 51 many in Europe thought that the world was going to end. In 1524 and 1624 we’re getting knowledge of the heavens we can see into the clouds and we’re can figure out the planets and and everything up there and all there’s alignment of the planets as alignment of heavenly bodies it’s going to bring destruction of the earth and Jesus is going to come it’s going to be the end of the world.

▶ 12:32 That was in 15 and 24. They missed so they started calculating the heavens again and they come up with another number in 1624. And they missed again. See none of this is new that you’re hearing today. In 1526 33 and 34 the Anabaptists three different groups at three different times said that the kingdom of God was coming down to the earth the city of God was coming down to the earth Münster was one of the cities supposed to be the city of God where Christ set up his rule and reign and they took an army in there invaded it and took it over waiting for Christ to come killed people. And he didn’t come. And the people raised up an army and took the city back. The new Jerusalem come out of heaven, Münster the city and then they picked two other cities.

▶ 13:31 Luther predicted it would end in 1600 AD. Christopher Columbus got in on the act he calculated that the earth would be seven thousand years old in 1658 from the Jewish calendar and calculating the Bible and so the end would be then because that was his calculation numerology of seven thousand years. An explorer getting in on it everybody gets in on it Bishop of Tours to Christopher Columbus more famous failures of prof of end time prophecies interpretation. A black plague again in 1666 and because 666 was in the year 1666. They said Christ was coming there is that infatuation with 666 the antichrist numerology you get it the planets the heavens it’s been going on for centuries.

▶ 14:38 In 17 and 19 and 1736 they predicted a comet would destroy the earth here’s the heavenly bodies again. In 1780 the New England states had a dark day created by a natural phenomena and they go oh the earth is this is a sign of the end of the time the Shakers, the Quakers predicted 1794. Some people predicted that there would be a quake in 1805 1805 that would destroy the whole earth that is some earthquake you know and and they’re they’re they’re infatuated with this wars and rumors of war of famines plagues on earth they’re just infatuated with that verse. 1780. The new england dark day the Shakers, the quake and then in 1833 there was a meteor shower during the middle of the night in America that literally lit up the night for about four hours so many meteors were falling from the sky that the people said you could read a newspaper it was written in the newspaper that you could read and everybody thought this is it this is it something climbed on top of the roof waiting for the rapture the second coming.

▶ 15:58 In 1836 Wesley predicted, John Wesley, that the world would end 1884 the Millerites, Miller he had his numerology you ought to see that chart of his I’ve showed it to you before it’s amazing. How he got down to the day and the month in 18 and 44 he had missed before but this is his last prediction and people went they sold their properties as I’ve told you before they even bought a white robe so they could have resurrection robes to go up you know rapture robes to go up into the sky and they’re sitting there in the high places you know and they even had bathtubs so you could wash before he came and be clean. And then it didn’t come it’s called the great disappointment some people killed themselves other peoples it was so distant in such destitute because they sold their properties their means of of living they got that caught up into it and the Bible was plain that nobody knows what the day of the hour now anybody that knows their Bible would just overlook that because nobody knows.

▶ 17:17 Oh. The Seventh-day Adventists, the Mormons, the Jehovah Witnesses and other groups during these late 1800s. Early 1900s predicted the end of time Joseph Smith said Christ would come before he died he died and he came well he’s dead now they can’t point their finger at him. That’s nice if you’re going to predict something predict it after your death nobody can attack you. In 1910 Halley’s comet’s making its normal natural cycle but the tail is going to hit the earth and the gases are going to destroy everybody on the earth that’s the end time that’s it all right in the 50s which I lived through. I heard sermon after sermon on how the atomic bomb the atomic war the nuclear war was going to destroy the earth going to destroy you know the the earth by fire and I mean heard it all the time in the prediction after prediction after prediction.

▶ 18:20 That did not happen. 1967 the Jews had a war in 1967 and they conquered all of Jerusalem and all of the West Bank to Jordan but the nations wouldn’t let them have it but now they have all of Jerusalem not just part of it so the prophets immediately rose up and said the times of the Gentile has ended the second coming is here. Now when I talked to them I said before 1967 you said he could come any minute now you’re telling me that in 1967 the fulfillment of the times of the Gentiles.

▶ 19:15 Has been fulfilled and he can come so he couldn’t have come any minute before. And they look at me with daggers. Do you understand church. Yeah. Branham which was a tremendous man when he first started. Healing rose in the 48 as we showed you God moved again in 1948. And he would literally. Tell a person what was wrong with them literally. He didn’t just pray for the sick he told him what their problem was you know you have cancer you have cancer of the [unclear] you know whatever it was amazing. Oral Roberts had a line and he had a card and so he knew what was going on now.

▶ 20:09 But God was healing there for a short period of time some some amazing things were reported I mean it’s in the newspapers and then as usual these guys get corrupt. And then they start saying you know you’re getting healed if you believe if you believe so if you don’t get healed it’s your problem. Did Jesus ever do that did he ever heal people that had no belief. Yes he did. Hallelujah. But God forbid we blame the mighty man of God it’s got to be the recipient not believing and faith literally corrupted the church because people started having faith in their faith and when you have faith in your faith and not in the Bible and not in Jesus it doesn’t work hallelujah.

▶ 21:12 Joe uh, Chuck Smith, Calvary Chapel, uh Gordon Lindsay, these famous people, Jerry Falwell, And I can go on on Pat Robinson, all predicted. They all miss and why did they miss because no one knows the day or the hour and the times of the seasons so stop acting like you’re something special. And troubling people’s minds and confusing baby Christians. Then the Y2K the second millennium came I was over in Africa preaching in 1985 86 and 87 and I happened to mention that Christ would not come before the year 2012 just to prove the Mayan calendar was wrong that God didn’t give truth to pagans and man when they went to lunch and those ministers were in there [unclear].

▶ 22:17 And I simply kept my mouth shut and when they got done I said well we will know when 2012 comes who’s right. 2012 is the come and gone. See anybody can get hyped up on something. 15 years before they’re predicting it. And then they just keep silent or they change their prediction after they’re wrong the Y2K I was asked by my church elders. To teach from the Bible on the Y2K problem the computer problem where computers were supposed to you know destroy the world here the computers are going to destroy the world floods and [unclear] lights traffic lights are not going to work right and people are going to be crashing into each other and all this stuff people were buying survival equipment survival food Christians.

▶ 23:18 And I preach from the Bible and I happen to have been trained in computers by the National Cash Register company so I knew about the technology of computers it only can put out what you put into it. And I did my research and I talked to knowledgeable people in the field nothing was going to happen. And it didn’t and so my elders after I got through they said I hope you’re right gonna be embarrassing if you’re wrong well I was right and he didn’t come back and said nah he didn’t come back you know they thought they bought into it the elders of the church elders are some of your worst problems in the church is elders a title without the authority. Hallelujah.

▶ 24:13 So. The natural people get into it it’s not just the Bible people. The earth’s going to be destroyed by a magnetic field reversal north pole is going to become south pole and the earth’s going to be destroyed all right gamma rays yeah a proton emitted off of a nuclear reaction and it does. Blows up and expands going to destroy the air solar flare going to destroy the earth an asteroid there are asteroids up there as big as 500 miles over 500 miles wide and if one of them hits the earth you’ve seen the movies on it bingo there goes the earth uh alien attack. That’s really far-fetched. The supernova.

▶ 25:06 Is an explosion that briefly outshines an entire galaxy. Radiating as much energy over the life of a sun just immediate bound gonna destroy the earth the black hole or a star collapsed and sucks supposedly everything into it light can’t even get out it is so strong that light can’t even get out and they saw stars disappear and at least they were honest they didn’t know if they went into the hole or they’re behind the hole if they’re behind the hole how many you know that black stuff is a substance. So see scientists have theories too. And and when they do it they talk like they know what they’re talking about but if you read the little words.

▶ 26:00 You know it possibly could be it’s a it’s a big difference so that the secular people are in on this also but both. End-time prophets and secular scientists forget that God needs no help from nature nor mankind. Member. Remember he turned the rod to a snake and the snake back to a rock that is supernatural he turned the water to blood and the blood backed the water he turned the darkness he brought darkness for three days that could be felt even a lit candle in a room could not be seen that is supernatural. You understand church. When God gives a sign it’s supernatural.

▶ 26:55 Brimstone from heaven to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, the axe that swam. How do you scientifically prove that iron doesn’t float but this axe swam. Right up to the top so the prophet could pick it up right at the surface of the water the dead were raised back to life. Including Jesus Christ who they could not find the body of if they could have they could have proved the Bible was wrong. And remember there was darkness at the cross for three hours and every account that I read about the death of Christ caused it an eclipse no eclipse lasts for three hours. It was a supernatural darkening of the day. I mean oh God says I want the earth to be dark it’s going to be dark and he doesn’t need our scientific laws to work through that’s what makes it a sign supernatural a miracle. It will be signs a supernatural a miracle that nature numerology nor mankind can do. These events are going to totally be God.