How many times have we heard preachers say that Jesus Christ can come at any moment?
He may even come before the end of this service.
No man knoweth the day or the hour, therefore he can come at any moment.
We need to be ready for him to come at any time.
Well let's see if that's really true.
Let's go to that scripture that they bring up that says that no man knoweth the day or
the hour.
And the Bible reads in verse 36, but of that day and hour knoweth no man know not the angels
of heaven, but my Father only.
And then if you go down to verse 42, he says, watch therefore, for you know not what hour
your Lord doth come.
Now these verses are very clearly telling us that no man knows the day or the hour of
Christ coming, therefore we should watch and be ready.
Now if you just back up a few verses though, it says in verse 29, immediately after the
tribulation of those days, shall the sun be darkened and the moon shall not give her light
and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of the heaven shall be shaken and then
shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven and then shall all the tribes of the
earth mourn and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power
and great glory and he shall send his angels with the great sound of a trumpet and they
shall gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other.
Then he says after that, but of that day and hour knoweth no man.
So it's funny that a pre-trib person would point to this verse to say, see, he can come
at any moment.
It says that no man knoweth the day or the hour, but they don't bother to read the context
that it comes after the tribulation according to verses 29 through 31.
And if you read 29 all the way down to 36, you can come to no other conclusion than when
he says, but of that day and hour knoweth no man, he's referring back to the day that's
talked about in verses 29 through 31 that comes after the tribulation.
So do we know the day or the hour of Christ coming?
No.
But one thing we do know for sure, Christ coming in the clouds with the trumpet to gather
his elect, that we will be gathered together unto him, it's coming after the tribulation.
That's what we know for sure.
We don't know the day or the hour, but we know it's coming after the tribulation.
It's hypocrisy for someone to take that verse about no man knoweth the day or the hour and
try to use that to promote a pre-trib rapture when a few verses earlier he just finished
telling us that that day is after the tribulation.