Why the Prediction That Christ Would Come May 21 Was Wrong (Part 4 of 8)

by | May 26, 2011 | Current Events, Eschatology

The second heading which must be considered with regard to Matthew 24:36 is …

II. Its Foolish Perversion

One of the surprising things about what Camping’s prediction is that he actually named a specific day. This seems to contradict his own comments on Matthew 24:36. Camping and other “date-setters” often argue that, though we cannot know the day or hour of Christ’s return, we can know the week, month or year. Speaking of Matt. 24:36 one date-setter (Whisenant in his 88 Reasons Why Christ Will Come in `88) has said, “However, this does not preclude or prevent the faithful from knowing the year, the month, and the week of the Lord’s return”. Camping in his previous book 1994? Said, “Not surprisingly, when we have completed our study we will know much about God’s timetable for the history of the world. But we will not know the day and hour of the actual end of the world when Christ is to come the second time”. Having said this he concludes that the last day and return of Christ would be, if his calculations are correct, between Sept. 15 and Sept. 27, 1994.

Such distorting of Scripture would be laughable, if they did not open the door to such serious error. Can we read this passage of God’s Word and conclude that Christ actually means to say that we cannot know the day or hour, but we can know the year, month, and week of Christ’s return? Nevertheless, for the sake of answering this objection and displaying the decisive, biblical evidence against giving a timetable for Christ’s return, the time must be taken to further confirm the meaning of this text. The context of Jesus’ statement makes abundantly evident the folly of such interpretation of Scripture.

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