| A Few Words About "Date Setting" Excerpted from the Introduction to The Seven Times and the Latter Days; Copyright 2001. |
| Many Christians teach that a select few biblical passages deny the possibility of "date setting." (This is a pri-mary reason why the Church is so ignorant of the time prophecies.) Here are the three main passages they cite. First, Jesus said, [A]s the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Matthew 24:37-39 Now, God had warned Noah and Methuselah that the Flood would take place in 120 years, and they "spoke all the words of the Lord to the sons of men, day after day ... but the sons of men would not hearken unto them ..." [Jasher 5:9-10] This is the reason Jesus said they "knew not": willful ignorance. Similarly, it was told Daniel concerning the prophecies of specific times and events given him of "the time of the end" (of the age): [T]he words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end ... and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand. Daniel 12:9-10 Two other statements by Jesus to his disciples are also cited as evidence that dates of end-time events will never be revealed: But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son [i.e., not even Jesus himself], but the Father. Mark 13:32 [His disciples] asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? And he said unto them, it is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. Acts 1:6-7 Jesus made the first statement before his crucifixion, and the second after. It's significant that the former denies knowledge to 'you and me both;' but the latter only to "you" (his disciples of that day); but not himself. Nowhere do these words say Christ and his Church in the Latter Days can't "know the times or the seasons." Whoever says so is adding to the Word. The Seven Times and the Latter Days and also Sacred History, Sacred Times reveal much about our present times and seasons. The Holy Spirit showed me the basic elements of Chapter 6's Esther allegory [The Apocalypse of ... Esther??], including the times, on January 20-22, 1982. Return to Index |