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MATTHEW 24:36 ~ MARK 13:32
But of that DAY knoweth no (man), no ,not the
angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Which
day is, that DAY? What
DAY are these passages referring to?
Forever
I’ve heard that, “we can’t know the day or the hour of the rapture, because it
says so in Matthew 24:36/Mark 13:32”.
Before
we even explore which day this might be referring to, we should first examine
the true meaning of, knoweth no (man), no, not the . . ..
WORDS AND THEIR MEANINGS
The
Greeks had eight words to express the various uses of the verb “to know”.
Two of these forms ~ “ginosko” and “oida”
are used by Jesus, sometimes in the same sentence in Matthew 24, 25 Mark 13 and
throughout the New Testament. The word “ginosko,”
according to Strong’s Concordance, #1097, and The Companion Bible,
appendix 132, means:
to understand, to be sure of, and to have
unconditional and objective knowledge.
The use
of this form of the verb means that the information can be obtained and
understood; you can have complete knowledge. In essence, the information or
knowledge is either available and understandable, or it is not.
Had
Jesus used this form of the verb, there would have been no doubt that no one
could know “of that time, not even the angels, or Jesus.” However, Jesus did
not use “ginosko,” He used
“oida.”
The word
“oida” (spelled “eida” in Strong’s
Concordance #1492 and “oida” in both
The Companion Bible and Young’s Analytical Concordance) is similar
to “ginosko” in that it means “to
understand, to have knowledge, etc,” but only when used in certain past tenses.
When
used in other tenses, as done by Jesus in Matthew 24, 25 and Mark 13, its
meaning is obtained from “optomai”.
This word, according to Strong’s Concordance #3700, means: to understand
intuitively – knowledge obtained without effort.
Usage of
“oida” in other than certain past tenses
refers only to how knowledge is obtained, not the degree of understanding as
with “ginosko.”
The
positive use of “oida – to know” means
that the information or knowledge is understood intuitively, being obvious to
the observer.
The
negative use of “oida – cannot know”
does not mean that the information or knowledge is not obvious, easily seen, or
understood by intuition. The negative use of
“oida” in no way implies that the information or knowledge is
unknowable or unattainable; it does mean that it takes an effort, investigation,
or study in order to uncover and understand it.
In other
words, the knowledge is there to obtain.
It can
be seen in the following verses that Jesus made a clear distinction between
“knowing” the signs of the return, and “knowing” when He is to return:
Matt: 24:32 (ginosko)
. . .Know that summer is near
Matt: 24:33 (ginosko)
. . .Know that it is near
Matt: 24:43 (ginosko)
. . .Know this, if the good man
Mark 13:28 (ginosko)
. . .Know that summer is near
Mark 13:28 (ginosko)
. . .You will know the time is near
Matt: 24:36 (oida)
. . .Of that day and hour knoweth no man
Matt: 24:42 (oida)
. . .You won’t know when your Lord will return
Matt: 24:43 (oida)
. . If the good man had known
Matt: 25:13 (oida)
. . You know neither the day nor the hour when he comes
Mark 13:32 (oida)
. . .Of that day and hour knoweth no man
Mark 13:33 (oida)
. . .You don’t know when the time is
Mark
13:35 (oida) . . .You don’t know when
the master of the house is coming
When
Jesus used the “ginosko” form of “to
know” in the verses above, He was indicating that the knowledge would be
available and that they would have complete understanding. In the other verses
where Jesus used “oida,” He was indicating that the knowledge would not come
instinctively, but would require some effort to perceive and understand it.
Using
“oida” in Matthew 24:36 and Mark 13:32, as
in the Greek manuscripts, the texts would, in essence, read,
But of that day and hour, no man knoweth intuitively,
no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. Jesus didn’t say
that the time was unknowable, but only that it wasn’t obvious and that it would
take effort to understand it. The Father is the only one who knew it
intuitively; everyone else had to put forth and effort to find it out.
Now,
with this effort put forth, and with that light shinning on it, we can now
understand that we can know and understand the subject of those referenced
verses, no matter what those subjects may be.
THE OBJECT OF MATTHEW 24
Open you
Bibles to Matthew 24. I use the authorized King James Version, and it begins on
page 39, if you happen to have a Bible like mine.
Now
chapter 24 begins with the word And, which means that it’s just a continuation
of what was going on in the previous chapter, which would be chapter 23. which
begins with Then, indicating that 23 came after what was recorded before.
Chapter
23 says, “Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to His disciples, saying . .
.” In these verses, Jesus is speaking to all mankind; the multitude and the
Jews, and when he was finished, (Chapter 24) And Jesus went out, and departed
from the Temple and his disciples came to him. . . and Jesus said unto them; the
Jews alone.
Again in
verse 4, Jesus answered and said unto them – the disciples, who were Jews.
Speaking to the Jews. And in every verse, it’s, “that no man deceive YOU . .
.”; “deliver YOU up to be . . .”; “when YE see the abomination . . .”. Only the
Jews are being addressed.
None of
this is directed at the Church!
How
could it be? Jesus is still alive when He said it, and the Gentile Christian
Church doesn’t begin until it’s revealed to Paul by God years later. The Jews
were never promised heaven, only God’s Kingdom on Earth.
Had the
Jews accepted the sacrifice as atonement for the world, the Word would have been
fulfilled and the Kingdom on earth could have begun sometime then in the first
century.
But as
we know happened, they rejected the sacrifice, and made necessary the revealing
to Paul of the “fail safe” plan, that had been a mystery, hidden in the mind of
God. This is when the Church is born, the substitutes, the new creature in
Christ, and their reward for accepting by Faith, what the Jews received in the
flesh, was to be Heaven and rulership in God’s Kingdom on Earth.
And Paul
taught that all the promises of the Spring Feasts of the Jews, which brought
them the Messiah, were passed to the substitutes as shadows of things to come,
so that at the appropriate time, scheduled to be when the prophecy of Daniel was
unsealed, the word could be fulfilled in them (the substitutes) at last.
Since we
know and understand from the Apostle Paul that a mystery is something that is
hidden in the mind of God, and that if you searched forever you would never find
it, we can be sure that Jesus was not speaking to the Church when he was saying
the things that were said in Matthew 24.
The
understanding we need to grasp is that because the Christians are a grafted on
branch to the tree of the root of Abraham, there is a separation in what is
spoken to the Jews and the Church.
This is
clearly illustrated in the Feasts of the Jews. The Spring Feasts, fulfilled by
the coming of the Messiah, are the only feasts passed along to the Church as
shadows of things to come, while the fall Feasts are yet to be fulfilled. They
will be fulfilled during the second coming of the Messiah.
Those
feasts, Trumpets, Atonement and Tabernacles have nothing to do with the Church,
because the Spring feasts reflect the death, resurrection, ascension and
offering of the Messiah to the Jews at Pentecost, that fulfills the Word.
Hidden within those feasts is the provision for the substitutes reward which is
part of the “fail safe” plan. Hidden because it wasn’t meant for the Jews.
Revealed to the Church in the time when the events of the last days of Daniel’s
prophecy were spilling out onto the stage of history.
Then,
with the Church gone, raptured on Ascension day, the 40th day after
the warning sign of many dead in Christ rising and being seen in Jerusalem,
Jesus will once again be offered by anointed witnesses as Messiah to the Jews;
the new offering required by the feast of Pentecost.
Now will
be the time for the Fall Feasts of Harvests, Atonement and Tabernacles to be
fulfilled for the Jews by Jesus. He will have His harvest of them, They will
accept His atonement, and He will rule their Kingdom on earth during the
Millennium along with those new creatures that return with Him.
The
Church would have already received the harvesting that was promised by First
Fruits, and fulfilled on Ascension. The Church accepted the atoning work of
Christ (thus the reward), and the Church will rule during the Millennial Kingdom
on Earth as part of the body of Christ.
SO WHAT DAY IS IT?
Well, we
can be sure it’s not the Rapture! The Rapture is the way the substitutes
receive their reward for their Faith and they hadn’t even been revealed by God
at the time when Jesus is speaking these words. There was no need at the time.
It could
be referring to His second coming. For sure it’s at a time when Jesus is
returning, and with Him He has called all of His elect that are already in
Heaven, which identifies the generation that will see this. Then He sets the
time frame in verse 32. The fig tree is Israel, and while she is yet tender and
puteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is night. That is to say that while
Israel is yet a young Nation and growing, you will know the time is near, but
verse 33 seems to be the key.
Vs. 33
So likewise ye (Jews), when ye shall see (in the future, when the Nation is
young and growing) all these things (spoken of before this in our chat) know
that it is near, even at the door.
Vs. 34
Verily I say unto you, this generation (the one that’s in the young growing
Nation) shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. Vs. 35 Heaven and
earth shall pass away but my word shall not pass away. Vs. 36 But of that day
and hour (from vs. 35, the day and hour that Heaven and earth shall pass away)
knoweth no man intuitively, no, not the Angeles of heaven, but my Father only.
Verse 36
is clearly in reference to the timing in verse 35, because Jesus is citing an
example of the longevity of His word.
Because
it didn’t end in the first century, it obviously wasn’t the generation that He
was speaking to that this message applies to. The reason it didn’t end then is
because the Jews refused the sacrifice and a substitute had to be found to allow
the Word to come back fulfilled.
So, it’s
all pushed up in time into the generation of Jews that does see all of the
events that ends with the abomination of desolation from Daniel’s prophecy,
confirmed out of the mouth of Jesus at verse 15.
If you
study the timing of it, you will see that the Rapture of the Church happens
somewhere between the 7th and 8th verses of Matthew 24,
and Zechariah 14 happens around verse 15.
THE IT’S HAPPENING NOW GENERATION
Folks,
the Jews have reached that generation that will see all these things come to
pass. They are a reborn young Nation that is growing. Their circumstance is
exactly in nature the same as it was when they were thrown off the land in A.D.
70.
They are
back in the land, they are with out a temple and are in need of a treaty with
the present day rulers of the land that was once ruled by Rome at the time they
were evicted.
All of
the pieces are in place. The rise of the little horn has been well documented
in the 21 years that we have been watching him. The meeting of the ten kings
from the land that was once ruled by Rome, required by Daniel’s prophecy, has
taken place, with the exact results; all for peace with 3 dissenters.
The
battle for position in Israel rages on, with peace reduced to a mere glimmer,
yet the leaders still reach for peace. For a year under the growing pressure of
the Intafada they still want peace. But it seemed that it was not to be, until
September 11, 2001 that is. Wonder of wonders, as horrible as it was, it was
the cataclysmic event that turned the world down the road to the final days.
Now the
talk is WAR! But not in Israel. Peace is the order of the day’s talk there.
The war is to end terrorism, and terrorisms sponsors. Now the talk is to
“topple and replace” governments who sponsor terrorism. That’s the same thing
the prophecy calls “uprooting”, and lo and behold, the same three that are the
dissenters to the peace are who they are after to “topple and replace”. My, My!
But
friends we must remember that we will never see that happen! Paul says The
Rapture of all those who are in Christ will happen before the peace is made and
confirmed, and that the “uprooting” comes after the peace!
And,
Paul tells us that we will see the dead that rise on First Fruits if we are
watching for them. And when we do, we will know that there are 40 days left
from the day they rise until the age of the Church is completed at the Rapture.
That’s why God commands us to WATCH, so that when we, the people of the light
see it coming, which is now unmistakable, we can warn the people of the dark who
are asleep and rejoice together in our joy of knowing.
The
events of the past few days in Washington concerning Jordan are probably going
unnoticed as anything prophetic by most of the world. But, from my vantage
point I see them as the opening salvo of the peace.
The
congress of the United States passed a free trade agreement with Jordan, and the
President signed it into law today. That makes Jordan only the 4th
Nation to have free trade with the US. Canada, Mexico, Israel and now Jordan.
Watch the stature of the Kings (little horn) grow from this point on in the
drama.
Microsoft is presently bringing Jordan into the near future techno-wise to make
her the center of communication.
I see
the Free Trade agreement as the down payment for the part The King must play in
the peace in Israel and among the Arab brotherhood. Somehow part of Jordan has
to go to the Palestinians for a homeland and he has to confirm that the Temple
Mount be shared. He has the say over the Mount, so he has to deliver the Arabs
on this, and since the Palestinians now living in Jordan almost outnumber the
Jordanians they could take over the government by vote, without firing a shot.
So, the King is being forced into the move, but handsomely paid. The payoff for
both Nations comes when the Hashemites become the client regime in Iraq after
the “topple and replace” moves that the unified sane world is making at present.
Some
form of that scenario is what brings about a forced peace that festers for three
and a half years and grows into the final conflagration of the great
tribulation. Whether we like it or not, Osama bin Laden is the instrument by
which a wedge is being driven between Islam and the West. The showdown has been
launched. The gunfight at the OK Corral isn’t far off, but Peace comes first.
How
close we are to the Rapture is blurred by how close it is. Could it be this
Spring? We will have to watch and see if we see the dead rise then. If not,
then another year, but still so close that it’s blurred and hard to see. The
key is watching the peace as I’ve always said. We’ve turned the corner, the
only event left is the peace, and we won’t see that come to pass. So we are
someplace between the corner and the peace right now with Spring just six months
away.
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