Elyse Fitzpatrick pens a great article on the Camping controversy:
What’s astounding about Jesus’ conversation with the disciples is that Jesus himself didn’t know the answer to their “when?” question. Think of that. The disciples ask God a question he can’t answer! In this case, in his humanity, he wasn’t privy to this information. He said, “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.” I don’t think we grasp the enormity of this statement. If anyone should have been in the “know,” shouldn’t it have been him? But you never hear Jesus grousing about how his head is spinning from all the possible contingencies. He’s never grumpy because he feels uncertain about the future, nor does he question his Father’s wisdom, faithfulness, or love. No, he just states that this is a secret that his Father has kept to himself. Jesus is our perfect example of how to walk ahead in faith through the dark. Jesus teaches us that we should expect God to have secrets. God’s not obligated to lay all his cards on the table for us. We can trust him.
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Tim Molter says
June 6, 2011 at 2:41 pmYou can be sure the rapture will not occur when anyone sets a date because God wants us all to live every day as though Christ could come today.
“Knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, ‘Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.'” 2 Peter 3:3-4
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CHARLIE FINK says
June 6, 2011 at 3:51 pmI personally think that no man can know the day or the hour, but we can know the season; Many people believe that the end will happen in late Dec., but I think the rapture could happen anytime, but I believe (personally) that it won’t happen before that 10th day of tribulation described in Rev 2:10, although it could (that is *the rapture) on late December of next year, although no one would know the day or hour.
Wayne Schlichter says
June 7, 2011 at 8:17 am“…but I believe (personally) that it won’t happen before that 10th day of tribulation described in Rev 2:10…,”.
Excellent thought Charlie. I’ve studied in the Revelation for years, and that verse has always troubled me. I think you may have had something revealed to you via the Holy Spirit. Thanks for sharing it.
brian says
June 9, 2011 at 1:55 pmPeople believe Harold Camping was wrong because the Bible is wrong. He was
wrong because Jesus is right. God is true though every man a liar. — Rob Dingman
Debra Sozio says
June 13, 2011 at 12:41 pmI read that December 21, 2012 is the date when the sun will be positioned in the center of our milky way, which only occurs every 26,000 years, and that an age is 26,000 years.