“Nope. The Lord said that we will not know the hour, nor the day.”
Nor is this the tribulation. Fallen and rotten world, yes; Lil’ Herod wannabee, yes; lukewarm apathetic churches, yes. But this is not nearly the description of the tribulation. Is the world stage being set?
Quite possibly.
Get ready. Luke 21:36 says, “Watch ye therefore, and PRAY ALWAYS, THAT YE MAY BE ACCOUNTED WORTHY TO ESCAPE all these things that shall come to pass, AND TO STAND BEFORE THE SON OF MAN.”
1Jn 1:9 says, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
Mt 24:36-42 says, “But of that DAY AND HOUR KNOWETH NO MAN, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noe 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 NOE ENTERED INTO THE ARK (Cheshvan 17), And knew not until the flood came (on Cheshvan 17), and took them all away; SO SHALL ALSO THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN BE. THEN (i.e., on Cheshvan 17) SHALL TWO BE IN THE FIELD; THE ONE SHALL BE TAKEN, AND THE OTHER LEFT. TWO WOMEN SHALL BE GRINDING AT THE MILL; THE ONE SHALL BE TAKEN, AND THE OTHER LEFT. WATCH THEREFORE: FOR YE KNOW NOT WHAT HOUR YOUR LORD DOTH COME.” Then we might be able to know the day.
It seems that Ariel Sharon, who now has double pneumonia and impaired brain function, is our Methuselah. When he is dead, the Rapture will probably come. If I remember right, Methuselah died one week before it began to rain. That is when Noah was told that it would start to rain in 7 days.
It looks like the wise virgins will not be in the dark as to the DAY, just the hour. The foolish virgins won’t know the day or the hour. Mt. 24:32-45 (KJV) says, “Now learn a parable of the fig tree (Israel, Joel 1:6,7); When his branch (klados, scion broken off for grafting, i.e., modern Israel grafted into her old rootstock) is yet tender (apalos, young, i.e., no more than 19, which she was in 1967), and putteth forth leaves (Gaza Strip, Sinai, Golen Heights, West Bank, in the Six-Day War of 1967), ye know that summer is nigh (the war started June 5; summer arrived June 21): So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it (’the kingdom of God’, Luke 21:31) is near, even at the DOORS (symbol of the Raptures, as in Rev. 3:8, 4:1). Verily (amen, so be it, firm, trustworthy) I say unto you, This generation (i.e., those born in 1967) shall not pass (1967 + 48.33 = 2015.33, or the Feast of Trumpets, Sept. 14, 2015), till all these things (including both Raptures) be fulfilled.” It looks like the 2nd Rapture will be Tishri 1, 5776, Sept. 14, 2015, so the 1st Rapture should be soon.
Lev 26:2-4 says, “Ye shall keep my SABBATHS, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; Then I WILL GIVE YOU RAIN IN DUE SEASON, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees (i.e., nations) of the field (i.e., world) shall yield their FRUIT.” We are called a kind of firstfruits. James 1:18 says, “Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be A KIND OF FIRSTFRUITS of his creatures.”
IN MARK, THE PORTER DOESN’T KNOW THE HOUR, BUT HE KNOWS THE DAY. Mark 13:33-37 says, “Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time (kairos, set or due time) is. For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. 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.” At even, midnight, cockcrowing, or morning is describing the hour. The porter already knows the day.