A dear brother in the Lord has encountered a man who says he has figured out through numerology that the Lord is coming back on May 26th, that's tomorrow. This man also said that Trump was coming back to be president.
Let's be clear "numerology" is divination and has no part in a believer's life.
O.K., let's use just a little brain power and logic to decide if this man is speaking from God or out of his own desires.
First of all the Bible clearly says we will not know the day or the hour. Believers will not be caught unaware because we are waiting for Him all the time, but we will not know the "day or the hour." That's the first thing, if that's all we had that this person said it would be all we need to know he is not speaking from God. However, there's more:
If the Lord were coming on the 26th of May we would have to know which part of the world because some people will be on May 25th while others will be on the 26th at the same time due to the time zones around the world.
Sometimes I am on the internet late at night and a brother or sister will contact me through messaging. They will tell me they are in the morning the next day. I will say to them, "you are in my tomorrow and I am in your yesterday." So if the rapture were on the 26th in the United States it would have to be on the 27th for other parts of the world. If anyone is going to predict the "day" of the Lord's return they would have to predict it for several consecutive days. See the problem?
Those who predict days and hours for the rapture are disobeying God. We walk by faith, if there is a need to know perfectly everything that is going to happen we would be lacking faith.
Matthew 25:12-13 "…12But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I do not know you.’ 13Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour. "
2 Corinthians 5:6-8 "…6 Therefore we are always confident, although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord. 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.…"
We do not know the date of our death we walk by faith that God knows when He wants to take us. We do not know the day of an accident we might be in because Christ Who lives in us goes through with us, we have no need of knowledge of the future other than the prophecy God has already given us in His Word. If God did tell us our future we would do something to change it, its human nature!
Many people who lack faith concoct ideas based on their own desires and claim they are from God.
Here is what God says about this:
Jeremiah 29:8-9 "…8 For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Do not be deceived by the prophets and diviners among you and do not listen to the dreams you elicit from them. 9 For they are falsely prophesying to you in My name; I have not sent them, declares the LORD.” "
I do not pay attention to those who say they know the future, nor to those who believe in new revelation, we have all we need in the Bible to live a life of faith. God gave us all the future events He wanted us to know about in His Word, we need not seek to know more than that.
It is a wonderful surprise at the way the Lord orders each day for us. We have new surprises all the time, what a bummer it would be to always know what is coming tomorrow, waiting for that while missing the surprise He has for us today.
Just Saying!!!!!
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