The Day and Hour Unknown

[jagman]

Mathew 36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[f] but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.
42 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

45 “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? 46 It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. 47 Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 48 But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’ 49 and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. 50 The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. 51 He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Pretty scarey stuff IMO. I dont know why the phrase " Loose lips sink ships" comes to
mind.

[Alex Laker]

I think that the true of art of prophecy is not really about making predictions. It is about how the prophecy affects the course of action taken by an individual, i.e. it is a control mechanism. If a prophecy in which you believe is not fulfilled, then your actions in anticipation of it still remain. You will have just become more like someone wanted you to be.

However, in this case the prophecy has no day or hour upon which it will come to pass, so if we believe in it, then we are constantly in anticipation of it, constantly in fear of it, and constantly controlled by it.

As long as we keep waiting for things to happen we are trapped by trying to better ourselves in the light of events that have not yet happened. That doesn't make any sense at all. Self-improvement cannot be speculative.

So I say we should set our own goals in the light of what we have already experienced as real.

[modwiz]

Posted by jagman (here)
Pretty scarey stuff IMO. I dont know why the phrase " Loose lips sink ships" comes to
mind.

You're probably just a poet at heart.

[REILLY]

Posted by modwiz (here)

Posted by jagman (here)
Pretty scarey stuff IMO. I dont know why the phrase " Loose lips sink ships" comes to
mind.

You're probably just a poet at heart.

I know exactly why the phrase comes to mind, but no ships will be sunk by the posting of this message.