Comments on: Are We The “Last Generation”? http://timmchyde.com/are-we-last-generation/ Revolutionary Explanations for Bible Prophecy, Mysteries and Difficult Verses Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:41:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tim McHyde http://timmchyde.com/are-we-last-generation/comment-page-1/#comment-10893 Tim McHyde Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:48:34 +0000 http://timmchyde.com/?p=139#comment-10893 Whoops, you seemed to miss that "day or hour" is in Bible parlance "time". Playing semantics like that therefore does not resolve the dilemma of "no man knows" in the face of the fact that we <em>will</em> know the time of the end once the abomination happens (it will be exactly 1290 days ahead and counting days even without the sun given the invention of watches is not a problem). The only solution is that no man knows is <em>present tense</em> only this far in advance. If you study the prohibition you will see it is connected always to the warning to stay alert and not backslide <em>"because you don't know the day or hour".</em> However, once the abomination happens, God's people <em>will know</em> the time of the end (1290 days away) <strong>AND</strong> they also will not be liable to backslide because they will have been taken out of the general world to a specific place prepared (Rev 12, times time and half a time = Great Tribulation, same period as the 1290 days). So the whole reason for saying "no man knows" (potential for backsliding) will be gone and with it as well the restriction on knowing. The restriction was never stated as "no man will EVER know", but only "(presently) no man knows. Whoops, you seemed to miss that “day or hour” is in Bible parlance “time”. Playing semantics like that therefore does not resolve the dilemma of “no man knows” in the face of the fact that we will know the time of the end once the abomination happens (it will be exactly 1290 days ahead and counting days even without the sun given the invention of watches is not a problem). The only solution is that no man knows is present tense only this far in advance. If you study the prohibition you will see it is connected always to the warning to stay alert and not backslide “because you don’t know the day or hour”.

However, once the abomination happens, God’s people will know the time of the end (1290 days away) AND they also will not be liable to backslide because they will have been taken out of the general world to a specific place prepared (Rev 12, times time and half a time = Great Tribulation, same period as the 1290 days). So the whole reason for saying “no man knows” (potential for backsliding) will be gone and with it as well the restriction on knowing. The restriction was never stated as “no man will EVER know”, but only “(presently) no man knows.

]]> By: Jan De Regt http://timmchyde.com/are-we-last-generation/comment-page-1/#comment-10892 Jan De Regt Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:32:18 +0000 http://timmchyde.com/?p=139#comment-10892 It seems to me you are contradicting yourself. We ARE to take the bible literally. We are not told we can't know when Jesus will return, we are told we won't know the exact day or hour. This could be due to several reasons: the sun, moon is obscured, earth is actually moved off it's axis and days disrupted, God may cause another missing block of time, our clocks won't work, time zones make synchronicity for everyone impossible or perhaps simply because the festivals are based on when the moon is seen to rise by witnesses and until that hour, nobody knows. I believe that there is also one festival and I can't remember which one, which was moved from it's original time and is not celebrated as dictated by God. The festivals are markers and the clock will become clearer as we go along. One generation will have some living members when Jesus returns. The countdown starts with the formation of Israel. That couldn't be clearer to me. It seems to me you are contradicting yourself. We ARE to take the bible literally. We are not told we can’t know when Jesus will return, we are told we won’t know the exact day or hour. This could be due to several reasons: the sun, moon is obscured, earth is actually moved off it’s axis and days disrupted, God may cause another missing block of time, our clocks won’t work, time zones make synchronicity for everyone impossible or perhaps simply because the festivals are based on when the moon is seen to rise by witnesses and until that hour, nobody knows. I believe that there is also one festival and I can’t remember which one, which was moved from it’s original time and is not celebrated as dictated by God. The festivals are markers and the clock will become clearer as we go along. One generation will have some living members when Jesus returns. The countdown starts with the formation of Israel. That couldn’t be clearer to me.

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