There are many prophets out there prophesying the date of End Time, yet none of them is accurate, because apparently, they don't read the Bible. The next time you hear any renowned prophet releasing the date, you can be sure that it is wrong.
But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. - Matt 24:36
No one will know the date and hour, except God. But we may wonder why as His children, we still won't know, even though we know the Son (who is the exact representation of the Father). If it is based on His timing, we probably can know, just as Jeremiah and Daniel knew God's timing as they sought the Lord.
For thus says the Lord: "After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place." - Jer 29:10
And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, “O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you skill to understand... Seventy weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city..." - Dan 9:22, 24
Yet when it concerns the End, I believe that the timing depends on our response, which is why NO ONE will know the exact date and time, except God who sees the end from the beginning, since He lives outside of time.
Jesus said concerning the End in Matt 24. "And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the END will come." - Matt 24:14 (emphasis added)
In other words, God desires ALL to be saved and none to be perished (2 Peter 3:9). Hence, He, through Christ, entrusted us with the authority and power to preach the Gospel to all the world (Mark 16:15-18). It is God WORKING through us to will and to do His work (Phil 2:13).
Grace always requires a response. Else everyone in the world will automatically be saved. That response is faith. And faith always produces good works. Our response to His grace is to preach the Gospel to all the world. Without our response, the End won't come, because He desires that none shall perish. So He is waiting for our timing, instead of us waiting for His timing. People praying for revival will have no revival until they go out to be the answer for their prayer - to manifest the Revived Son. The Great Commission is not "Stay in your room and pray and intercede." It is "GO and preach the Gospel to all the world."
Jesus gave the same answer to the disciples when they asked Him after His resurrection.
Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority." - Acts 1:6-7
The Father indeed has put the timing in His own authority. That doesn't mean that He has fixed a timing. Nowhere in the Bible says that He has fixed a timing for the End. Because if He has fixed it, we can sit back, relax and do nothing.
But He has put the timing in His own authority and He has given us Christ (who has all authority in heaven and on earth). That timing is based on our response to the authority and power He has given.
This is why Jesus immediately answered in the next verse after saying, "It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority."
"But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” - Acts 1:8
In other words, Jesus is saying, "GO and preach the Gospel to all the world. THEN, the End shall come."
Don't wait for God's timing when He is in fact, waiting for our timing. Get your butt moving.
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