Poor, Poor People of the Churches-Your Pastors Lied to You & You Believed Them

Comment on EBF's "Biblical Evidence for the end in 2033" study: "No nobody knows the hour or time"

EBF Response:

Of course. No man knows the timing for the end of the world. Nor any other truth about God and His Word. However, that does not mean that man cannot come to know as God reveals the information to him. And as we study the Bible, we find this is exactly what God has planned to do at the time of the end:

Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.

10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

A major Biblical principle of studying the Scriptures (which God Himself lays out) is that we must not arrive at hasty conclusions by simply reading the surface statement of the Bible (such as "no man knows") without first searching the whole Bible to see if the conclusion we believe the verse is teaching harmonizes with all Scripture.

And when it comes to this idea that no man can possibly know (which is what the churches teach), the Bible will not allow for that conclusion.

For example, Jesus declares of that day and hour knoweth no man – in Matthew 24:36. And in the very next verse He tells us His coming will be as it was in the days of Noah:

Matthew 24:37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

You might be wondering – okay, so what? This is important because, again, He just made a declaration that man cannot know – and then makes a historical reference to Noah and likens His second coming to that. We would expect that the historical record would agree with the idea of no man knowing. That is, as we go back to the book of Genesis and read the account of Noah's flood, we should find that it caught Noah, and all men, totally off guard. By surprise. They did not know anything about it. That would make sense, wouldn't it? I mean, if you or I were declaring a thing, and then immediately gave an example of the thing we were speaking about – we would make sure that it was in agreement with our prior statement.

However, if we accept the church's teaching that no man knows means no man at all – not a saved man or an unsaved man can possibly know anything about the timing of Christ's coming – then we're perplexed as we turn back to the book of Genesis and read the flood account:

Genesis 7:1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

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.

Here, God is speaking to Noah prior to the flood. And as you can see, God tells Noah precisely when the flood will occur, "yet seven days". And seven days later, we find the flood did come:

Genesis 7:10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

Now let's ask ourselves some questions:

1. Did Noah have advance information regarding the timing for the flood?

Yes, he did.

2. Did Noah know the year, month, and even day of the flood?

Yes, he did.

3. Why then did Jesus refer to him as a historical example of His coming? And especially, we wonder why refer to Noah right after telling us no man knows the day or hour?

You know for some reasons pastors do not get into these questions – but they do point out these verses in Matthew 24 having to do with Noah and the flood:

Matthew 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Oh, there it is. Jesus said no man knows in Matthew 24:36 – and gave the historical example of Noah's flood. And in that example we find reference to the flood coming and that the people "knew not" until it came and took them all by surprise. There you have it! Proof that no man can know.

Except for the inconvenient fact that Noah and his family did know.

What do we make of this then? How do we understand it? Putting it all together we come to the conclusion that Daniel 12:9,10 reveals. God reveals truth about coming judgments to His chosen people (the wise). Others of the world may hear those truths and yet disbelieve them. As the people of the world of Noah's day no doubt thought he was a lunatic and so discounted whatever information he told them.

Unsaved man will not know the timing for God's judgment. But that does not mean God's elect people will not know.

Proverbs 28:5 Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.

Sadly, as the churches insisted – and continue to insist – that no man can know the timing for the Lord's coming in judgment, inadvertently they are aligning themselves with the wicked of the world like the people of the world outside the ark who perished in the flood waters. For further proof that Christ's coming is viewed two different ways by the two different types of people (saved and unsaved) in the world – see:

1 Thessalonians 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

Now after reading the above passage, ask yourself this question: for whom does Jesus come as a thief?

The answer is – not for those whom He has saved and translated from darkness to light. For they are not in darkness, that they should be overtaken as a thief.

Obviously, then, Christ comes as a thief in the night for the unsaved.

Poor, poor people of the church. You pastors lied to you – and you believed them.