He Will Come in His Timing

September 23 is coming up fast now, the day predicted for the rapture by those who think they have figured out the language of the Bible.

I have a hard time believing God would tell us we would not know the day or the hour, and then proceed to tell us the day and the hour, through cryptic and convoluted tidbits, leaving us to put the puzzle together.

Matthew 25:13 "…12 But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I do not know you.’ 13 Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour."

Saints, what are you going to tell people when the day comes and goes and nothing happens?

I more than anyone, would love to go home on that day, I have been waiting to go home since I became a born again believer many years ago. I placed my trust in Christ, that He will come and get me, it wasn't very important when that would happen, just that it would and the timing would be perfect.

If God wanted us to know the day or the hour He would have simply said, "on this day at this time", but instead He said; "no one knows the day or the hour."

Down through the years there have been many people who have undermined the faith of others by predicting things that never came about, causing people to distrust anything about God.

Sadly these people were placing their trust in men and their own desires rather than Christ. When we trust Christ we have no need to know anything more about the future than what He gave us in His Word.

Matthew 16:4 "4 A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.” Then He left them and went away. "

Walking by faith shows us just how fragile we are, when the faith wains a little, we begin to try to figure things out for ourselves, always defying God's Word and trusting in our own imaginations.

2 Corinthians 10:5
"5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;"

If you desire more than what God wrote in His Word, then you lack faith, have sinned against God and must repent from it.

Those of you who believe the September prediction, have you left your house to go and sit on a hill to wait, stopped shopping for food a week in advance because you won't be here to eat it? Have you stopped working at a job or ceased preparing for anything else? My guess is that you have not stopped all your normal activities because in your heart of hearts you really don't believe it either.

God told us to continue doing what we have always done as though He is not coming, because we would not "know the day or the hour."

1 Corinthians 4:6
"Brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us NOT TO GO BEYOND WHAT IS WRITTEN. Then you will not take pride in one man over another."

To set a date for the rapture is to add to the Holy Word of God, expressly forbidden by God.