{"id":94816,"date":"2025-08-15T19:36:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T19:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=94816"},"modified":"2025-08-15T19:36:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T19:36:55","slug":"nobody-knows-the-day-and-the-hour-part-2-of-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=94816","title":{"rendered":"Nobody knows the day and the hour? (Part 2 of 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Continued from yesterday, Thursday, 14th August 2025)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">By <\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">The Preacher&#8217;s Diary<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">5.\u00a0 NASA Warns about Alien Invasion<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Recently, astronomers have spotted what they described as an \u201calien mothership\u201d approaching Earth from an unknown realm in outer space.\u00a0 They call it the \u201c3i\/Atlas,\u201d with a size between 15 \u2013 24 kilometres in diameter, travelling towards Earth at a speed of over 200,000 km\/h.\u00a0 Some say that it is \u201caliens\u201d coming to spy on Earth or \u2018attack us.\u2019\u00a0 Two telescopes, one in space, are monitoring this strange \u2018ship.\u2019\u00a0 At first, the scientists said that the object was expected near Earth sometime in October\/November.\u00a0 Recently, they have moved the dates to September.\u00a0 September again!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">This \u2018alien spaceship,\u2019 they say, is unlike a comet in many ways, so they have safely called it a \u2018natural object.\u2019 \u00a0However, other discreet voices are beginning to warn about a Last Great Deception.\u00a0 Satan has also heard what we have heard, and he knows much more than mortals do. \u00a0He understands the times in many ways, and he is monitoring the calendar to set up his game plan.\u00a0 He is, after all, the prince of the power of the air, controller of the second heavens. \u00a0Watch out for more news and scares about more \u2018alien ships\u2019 in space approaching Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">When the Rapture happens as predicted, the \u2018scientists,\u2019 New Agers, the Illuminati, and all the sponsors of global wickedness, shall say that the raptured were abducted by the alien ships of which they had warned; that the \u2018extremist\u2019 enemies of humanism and inclusiveness have been safely removed at last by the invading aliens, as a form of judgment against them. \u00a0It happened when Jesus resurrected.\u00a0 The press was bribed to announce that His body was stolen from the grave by His disciples while the guards were asleep.\u00a0 Strange guards those were, who could see so clearly while being deeply asleep, yet could do nothing to intercept the seen thieves at their duty post (Matthew 28:11-15).\u00a0 Some lies wear a hat; still, there will always be those to believe them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">6.\u00a0 A Visitor from Outer Space on April 13, 2029<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Revelation 8:10-11 speaks of a star called Wormwood that shall impact the earth in the middle of the seven-year rule of the Antichrist, causing great and terrible global destruction.\u00a0 For many years now, that \u201cstar\u201d has been spotted approaching Earth.\u00a0 According to NASA and other aeronautics and space authorities, that asteroid will \u201cfly by\u201d Earth.\u00a0 NASA has named it Apophis, after the Egyptian god of chaos and destruction, death and darkness.\u00a0 Some are blunt that it will impact the earth, but because of the panic that such a disclosure could cause, that is not said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Besides the scientific forecast, there was a prophetic witness.\u00a0 In 2019, Thomas Horn had a vision of the asteroid crashing into Earth, into the Pacific Ocean and part of it on land, on Friday, April 13, 2029, causing continental destruction and casualties in the billions.\u00a0 Then he heard the word, \u201cApophis.\u201d\u00a0 As he investigated further, after the vision, he came upon the NASA findings.\u00a0 His book,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">The Wormwood Prophecy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">, details his encounter (https:\/\/youtu.be\/7BeNvQ2k_9A?si=VWHwpsaRJ0KlfYdZ).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Considering Brother Joshua\u2019s Rapture dates of September 23-24, 2025 and the Second coming on September 13, 2032, the Wormwood date sits properly in the midpoint of the Antichrist\u2019s seven-year reign on earth.\u00a0 As the Antichrist will enter the Temple at about that time to desecrate it, Wormwood is expected to be divine judgment for that trespass.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Apophis is said to be about the size of four football stadiums, travelling at a speed of about 45,000 km\/h, with an energy of over 65,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs. \u00a0It is hard to lightly dismiss Brother Joshua\u2019s testimony.\u00a0 The convergence of so many things cannot be mere coincidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Many years ago, Thomas Hon also prophesied that \u201cAn individual will arrive by 2025,\u201d who will be an agent of global change. He also mentioned the Essenes, the ancient Jewish holy men of Qumran, known for the Dead Sea Scrolls, who had predicted the birth and death of Jesus to the exact dates, among other things.\u00a0 They also predicted that mankind would enter its final age in 2025, ending the 6000 years (or 6 Creation days) of man.\u00a0 We shall later return to that scheme of time.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"EdAokiZHix\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/2025\/08\/14\/nobody-knows-the-day-and-the-hour-part-1-of-2\/\">Nobody knows the day and the hour? (Part 1 of 2)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Nobody knows the day and the hour? (Part 1 of 2)&#8221; &#8212; Everyday.ng\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/2025\/08\/14\/nobody-knows-the-day-and-the-hour-part-1-of-2\/embed\/#?secret=Mr5bZrPnlg#?secret=EdAokiZHix\" data-secret=\"EdAokiZHix\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">7.\u00a0 Alice Bailey Saw 2025<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Not only scientists and prophets of God but also the occult world has predicted 2025 as the year that would mark a significant shift in human history. \u00a0For example, the Aztec people of central Mexico in the 14th to the 16th centuries are said to have predicted 2025 as a time of worldwide change, a time of peace and the end of wars.\u00a0 Recall 1 Thessalonians 5:3:\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201cFor when they shall say, Peace and safety \u2026\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">More notably, Alice Bailey (1880-1945), the occult prophetess and one of the founders of the New Age Movement and was the inventor of the term \u201cNew Age,\u201d predicted that 2025 would be a landmark year when demonic principalities and fallen angels, whom she described as \u201caliens\u201d and \u201cthe great ascended masters,\u201d will reveal themselves and bring in the \u201cCosmic Christ\u201d \u2013 read, the Antichrist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Alice Bailey wrote over twenty books, which have influenced the United Nations and provided the anti-Christ architecture of much of Western culture and governance.\u00a0 She acknowledged that the majority of her works were telepathically dictated to her by a \u201cMaster of Wisdom\u201d or spirit entity identified as Djwal Khul, abbreviated sometimes as DK. \u00a0Of course, that was a demon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Britannica<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0describes her theosophy movement as \u201can occult movement.\u201d \u00a0Her Satanic prophetic status is better highlighted by the fact that she wrote \u201cThe 10 Point Agenda,\u201d which I describe as the Satanic Ten Commandments \u2013 her counter Commandments to destroy Christianity, although she had grown up a Christian in England, before she moved to the United States.\u00a0 According to\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Wikipedia<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">, she had \u201creceived a thorough Christian education.\u201d\u00a0 Her Agenda, among other things, included the following: taking God and prayer out of the education system, making sex and abortion free, making homosexuality an alternative lifestyle, creating an interfaith movement, and so on, which are the principles that have damaged much of Western society and set it on the anti-Christ path.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">In her book,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">The Externalisation of the Hierarchy,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">published posthumously in 1957, she predicted that \u201ca new spiritual energy will begin to manifest after 2025, this is anticipated to culminate\u00a0<\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">during a significant assembly of the Hierarchy<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">, where new stages of spiritual work will be set in stage.\u201d\u00a0 Wow!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Given her influence in connection with the occult Globalist foundations of the United Nations, her predicted \u201cnew spiritual energy\u201d could have been referring to the Antichrist who would \u201cmanifest\u201d in that year, and the \u201cSIGNIFICANT assembly of the Hierarchy\u201d could be a veiled Satanic prophetic reference to the 80th General Session of the UN coming up in September, which Bible watchers are also expecting, as she put it, to kick off \u201cnew stages of spiritual work\u201d\u00a0 on the global stage.\u00a0 Another coincidence?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">In case you are worried that an occult authority should be cited in buttressing the present case, Paul also did.\u00a0 In Titus 1:12, writing to Titus, his spiritual prot\u00e9g\u00e9e, about the people of Crete, he noted that even one of \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">their own\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0prophets, Epimenides, one of \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">their own<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201d respected authorities, had described the Cretans as a kind of people:\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201calway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">8.\u00a0 Prophecy, Dreams, Visions and More<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Prophet Joel<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0spoke not only about signs in the sky but also about signs among men; not only of celestial signs but also of spiritual signs and wonders: sons and daughters prophesying, old men dreaming dreams, young men seeing visions, even servants and maids inspired in unusual ways to unveil mysteries and confirm prophecy (Joel 2:28-31).\u00a0 In the past two months, there has been an avalanche of dreams and visions and supernatural encounters and other strange insights, all pointing to September as a month to watch, especially the dates that Brother Joshua has given. The Bible says to receive truth in the mouth of \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">two or three witnesses<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201d (Matthew 18:16).\u00a0 This matter has garnered tons of \u201cwitnesses\u201d worldwide, all within these few days. \u00a0Maybe it\u2019s another coincidence.\u00a0 Maybe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Sister Lauren<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0told of her 15-year-old autistic son who is non-verbal, who spells to communicate.\u00a0 He had a trip to Heaven where he had encounters that he could not have fabricated.\u00a0 He wrote the names of people he had met in heaven, departed relations of whom he had no prior knowledge.\u00a0 One of them was an aborted sister, who told him that Jesus was coming to bring them home in September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Pastor Alain<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0was caught up to heaven where he saw the clock of the world stopped at\u00a0<\/span><u><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">11.59.58pm<\/span><\/u><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">, that is, just two seconds before midnight, with Michael the archangel holding up a large trumpet to the mouth, ready to blow it (https:\/\/youtu.be\/njL8er5HXl8?si=aH8Xv0IiRf7JgsF4).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Jimmy<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0was seven years old when he had his first supernatural Rapture encounter. \u00a0At sixteen, he was caught up to the presence of God and heard Jesus say, \u201cMy return is so soon.\u00a0 You will not die before I come. I will return in your lifetime.\u201d \u00a0A week later, he met his friend who had had the very same encounter.\u00a0 \u00a0Three years ago, as he wondered when the Rapture would be, Jesus told him, \u201cYou will be 66 when I return.\u201d\u00a0 Jimmy was 66 in May this year, and he is persuaded that the Rapture could be at the Feast of Trumpets in September this year, yet he hadn\u2019t known about Brother Joshua.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Hann<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0is a Muslim woman in Egypt.\u00a0 She had a Rapture dream in which her child was taken up, but she was not. Very traumatised, she wondered why she was left behind.\u00a0 She was told that the child was innocent, but she did not know Jesus.\u00a0 Then she saw a large calendar and an angel tearing off the year 2026 and throwing it away.\u00a0 Now she\u2019s seeking Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">There is an abundance of videos on social media, of children who have had startling Rapture dreams and other experiences in which Jesus has told them that He is coming soon; videos of men and women with remarkable Rapture encounters, several of them pointing to the exact dates in September.\u00a0 It has not always been so.\u00a0 As should be expected at such times, there are also narrations that appear to be taking advantage of the present Rapture hype; narrations that the discerning will not easily swallow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Many witnesses,<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0apart from dreams and visions by old men and their children, are reaffirming the September message. \u00a0\u2018Servants\u2019 have also been inspired to unveil remarkable codes pointing in the same direction.\u00a0 For example, someone was amazed to discover, among other things, that the Feast of Trumpets is found in Leviticus 23:23-24, connecting to September 23-24.\u00a0 That perfect match was hard to find in previous and future years, given the lunisolar calendar that guides those dates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Someone else approached the case with the gematria key and had an amazing discovery.\u00a0 Mostly Hebraic but applicable to other languages, gematria is a numerological system of computing the numerical value of words based on their constituent letters.\u00a0 In the English alphabet, for example, the 1st letter is A, the 2nd is B, the 3rd is C, and the 4th is D.\u00a0 According to that order, the name or word \u201cAba\u201d would be 1+2+1 =4; and \u201cAda Aba\u201d would be 1+4+1+1+2+1 = 10.\u00a0 This fellow calculated the gematria for the Hebrew phrase for Feast of Trumpets.\u00a0 It equalled 923, which he saw as 9\/23, that is, September 23.\u00a0 Again, it was unique to the Feast dates in 2025.\u00a0 In 2024, Rosh Hashanah was October 2-4; in 2023, it was September 15-17; in 2026, it will be September 12-13.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Prophecy predicts that the Beast will rule for seven years, which will also mark the Great Tribulation on earth.\u00a0 The Bible records that during that period, he will sign a seven-year peace agreement with Israel, which he will break in the middle of those years (Daniel 9:27).\u00a0 The Bible gives the exact number of days in the first and second halves of the Beast\u2019s seven-year reign: it is 1,260 days in the first half (Revelation 11:3; 12:6) and 1,290 days in the second half (Daniel 12:11), making a total of 2,550 days in the seven years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">A brother whose name I cannot recall, found something compelling.\u00a0 While he worried about the noise of a September Rapture, he asked ChatGPT to calculate for him the number of days from the Feast of Trumpets in September 2025 to the Day of Atonement on September 15, 2032.\u00a0 It was exactly 2,550 (seven years).\u00a0 In case that was a coincidence, he asked the same software to find other times in the past 200 years, from 1800, when the same pattern occurred, of exactly 2,550 days (as the Bible predicted) between those two feasts.\u00a0 Very interestingly, it had occurred only\u00a0<\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">six times<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0in the past, and all those times were since Israel became a nation in 1948.\u00a0 Ok, maybe that was another strange coincidence.\u00a0 He asked it to check if the same pattern would occur in the foreseeable future, in the next 200 years.\u00a0 There were none.\u00a0 In other words, the next occurrence of the pattern of 2,550 days as predicted in the Bible, between the two feasts, will be between the Feast of Trumpet in September this year and the Day of Atonement in September 2032, the dates announced by Brother Joshua.\u00a0 That will be the 7th and the last. I need not teach you the significance of the number 7 in spiritual numerology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Someone said that Israel is in its 70th Jubilee this year.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t take it for granted.\u00a0 I checked from 1490 BC, when Israel departed from Egypt (1 Kings 6:1), when God said to them,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201cThis month shall be unto you the beginning of months\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">(Exodus 12:2), to 2025 AD.\u00a0 I got 3524 years. Dividing that by 50 years that make a jubilee, gave me 70.48, which is 70 Jubilees indeed.\u00a0 Again, I need not teach anyone the spiritual significance of the number and patterns of 7s.\u00a0 God is up to something in 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">9.\u00a0 The Dispensational Case<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh day.\u00a0 Many Bible scholars have shown that human history follows the same divine pattern, so they speak of 6000 years of work and man, which should lead to the last millennium of rest.\u00a0 According to that pattern, from Adam to Abraham was 2,000 years; from Abraham to Jesus was 2,000 years; from Jesus to now, is 2,000 years.\u00a0 Accordingly, the 6-day circle of 6,000 years ending soon, the 7th day, corresponding to the 1,000-year (millennial) reign of Jesus, should commence.\u00a0 According to 2 Peter 3:8, \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0 From AD 32, when Jesus was crucified and resurrected, to the year 2032, is 2,000 years, completing the 6,000 years of man. \u00a0If we should count the seven years of the Great Tribulation off from that, when the Antichrist rules, it brings us to 2025, this year.\u00a0 In other words, from September this year, the world is about to enter the last seven years of man\u2019s 6,000 years on the earth, and those years are given to the Antichrist.\u00a0 Very interesting times these are.\u00a0 Well, as it is said, \u2018No one knows the day or the hour.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">10.\u00a0 The Pattern of the Jewish Feasts<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Bible scholars have usually highlighted the pattern in the life and ministry of Jesus in relation to the Jewish feasts.\u00a0 After all, those feasts and the tabernacle were patterned after a heavenly order.\u00a0 In other words, the earthly forms we see are merely a model of the heavenly forms (Hebrews 8:5; Colossians 2:16-17).\u00a0 The Bible scholars who teach so, show how Jesus\u2019 life significantly fulfilled the Jewish feasts, which are outlined in Leviticus 23. \u00a0Accordingly, Jesus the Passover Lamb was crucified at Passover; buried at the Feast of Unleavened Bread as the sinless One (John 1:29; 19:14); resurrected as\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201cfirst fruit\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0to God at the Feast of First Fruits (1 Cor 15:20); and anointed His disciples with the Holy Ghost at the Feast of Pentecost (Acts 2:1-3).\u00a0 Thus, this High Priest has fulfilled four of the seven feasts, with three remaining.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">The next Feast in line is the Feast of Trumpets, which should align with the Rapture, for the Bible says, \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">(1 Corinthians 15:52).\u00a0 After that, it will be the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), when He comes a second time to the earth (Second Coming), to reign as King for 1,000 years, during which time we shall enter the feast of rest, the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot).\u00a0 According to this pattern also, the upcoming Feast of Trumpets this year is very significant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">11.\u00a0 Let\u2019s Reason Together<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">In Isaiah 1:18, God calls mortals to use their head and\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201creason together\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0with Him on crucial matters of their soul.\u00a0 That struck me.\u00a0 What is my IQ that I should \u2018reason\u2019 with the Almighty, all-knowing God?\u00a0 But it is He that has said, Use your heads sometimes.\u00a0 So, let\u2019s think together: Could so many things lining up so perfectly have been mere coincidences?\u00a0 There have been false dates in the past, but should that mean that every other date is therefore false?\u00a0 Should the past become such a hindrance to a critical future?\u00a0 Can all of these voices from the heavens, from visions and dreams, from political events, all converging in this season, be dismissed as just coincidences, because of one verse of the Bible not properly interpreted, or because someone is unprepared to leave their present pleasures?\u00a0 With all these, could the Rapture be happening in September 2025?\u00a0 Your answer could determine many things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Sometimes, mindset can be a stronghold.\u00a0 Some think that speaking about a rapture before the Tribulation means that one is being \u2018escapist\u2019 and afraid of suffering for Jesus.\u00a0 If they want to remain, as proof that they are tough for God, good luck to them when others have gone.\u00a0 That will be a great time to argue \u201cpre-trib\u201d and \u201cpost-trib,\u201d and get prizes from the Antichrist for who made the most points. \u00a0Proudly unbendable theologies are dangerous.\u00a0 Religious pride sometimes wears reprehensible holy caps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">12.\u00a0 The Mystery of the Day and the Hour<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">There are usually patterns in the Bible to guide us.\u00a0 Even for the future Rapture, there are previous patterns.\u00a0 Jesus Himself found a pattern in Jonah for His death and Resurrection (Matthew 12:40).\u00a0 For example, Elijah\u2019s \u2018rapture\u2019 to heaven (which was certainly a kind of Old Testament rapture) was not entirely a secret to the people of God.\u00a0 In consecutive cities, even young prophets were announcing that God had told them the day and manner that Elijah was going to depart, although they did not know the specific \u2018airport\u2019 or the exact time of the departure (2 Kings 2:1-12).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">When these matters are raised, the only Bible verse that some people seem to remember is, \u201cNobody knows the day or the hour.\u201d Some of them do not even know where that is in the Bible.\u00a0 It appears that the enemy of our souls has put a veil over the minds of many, with one verse so badly misunderstood that they would not be properly warned.\u00a0 What does that passage mean, after all?\u00a0 Let\u2019s unveil it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">(Matthew 24:36, 25:13).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0(Mark 13:32).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">1. The Tense:<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0Let\u2019s start with the verb \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">knoweth<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">,\u201d and the fact that it is in the present tense. Nobody\u00a0<\/span><i><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">knows<\/span><\/b><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0does not mean that nobody\u00a0<\/span><i><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">should<\/span><\/b><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0<\/span><i><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">know,<\/span><\/b><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0or nobody\u00a0<\/span><i><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">can know<\/span><\/b><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">, or nobody\u00a0<\/span><i><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">will ever know,<\/span><\/b><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0but that is how the Church has interpreted that passage over the years.\u00a0 At the time when Jesus was making that statement, nobody knew, not even Himself, as man; but that was then.\u00a0 If you asked my children on Monday when their father was returning from his trip, and they said, \u201cNobody in the house\u00a0<\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">knows<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0yet,\u201d does that mean that by Tuesday, they could not have known?\u00a0 Does the fact that they did not know on Monday mean that they should never know? \u00a0I could have told them after your Monday meeting with them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">2.\u00a0 Jesus\u2019 Divinity:\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Jesus was still flesh at the time of that report. If He is also God, and God is omniscient, is it inconsistent with the nature of God to know all things? Must He, now in Heaven, still carry the limitations of humanity?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">3.\u00a0 The Father\u2019s Prerogative:<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0That verse is also interpreted to mean that the Father who knows\u00a0<\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">will not<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0or\u00a0<\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">should not<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0tell anyone, not even Jesus. Where did God sign that agreement with those misinterpreters of the verse? Is it against the nature of God, Who wants none to perish, to reveal time frames that should save more?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">4.\u00a0 The Amos 3:7 Principle<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">: According to Amos 3:7,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201cthe Lord GOD will do\u00a0<\/span><\/i><b><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">nothing<\/span><\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">[on the earth],<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0That He did not reveal a matter to \u2018our\u2019 revered prophets does not mean that He has not done so, or should not.\u00a0 Jesus did not say that God was\u00a0<\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">never<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0going to reveal those details.\u00a0 That it was sealed at a time did not mean that it was going to be sealed forever (Matthew 11:25; Daniel 12:9), but that is what everyone reads into the verse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">5.\u00a0 The Time Range:\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Brother Joshua did not \u2018set\u2019 a date, as some falsely accuse him. He only announced a narrowed range of days, within which nobody still knows the day or the hour, so, technically, he or the God that sent him broke no scripture.\u00a0 After all, all the prophets, even Jesus, also gave a range of days, called \u201cseason.\u201d \u00a0The exception this time is merely that Brother Joshua announced a narrower \u2018range\u2019 of two days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">6.\u00a0 A Seeable Day:<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0It says in Hebrews 10:25 that we can\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201csee the day approaching.\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0What does it mean to \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">see<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201d the day?\u00a0 How could the Day be unseeable and seeable at the same time?\u00a0 To the ancients, it was hidden, but from the time of the apostles, they had begun to say that it was a Day whose approach could be seen.\u00a0 Why should that pain our fixed theologies?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">7.\u00a0 A Thief in the Night:\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Some have argued that because the Bible says Jesus would come as a thief in the night, and someone does not usually know when a thief is coming, we cannot know when Jesus is coming, and whatever we \u2018know,\u2019 therefore, is false. Those interpreters haven\u2019t read their Bible properly. Let\u2019s see the passage:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a03 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a04 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a05 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a06 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a07 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0(1 Thessalonians 5:2-7).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">That passage addresses two categories of people: \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">ye<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201d and \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">they<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201d; the\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201cchildren of light\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0and those\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201cof the night.\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0 It does say that Jesus would come\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201cas a thief in the night,\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0but that referred to those in the night.\u00a0 The same passage makes it clear that\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201cthat day\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0was not going to \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">overtake\u2019<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0those in the light, or take them by surprise, as it would surprise the children of darkness, who sleep in the night.\u00a0 Paul then warns us not to sleep or be drunken with the lusts and distracting pleasures of this world,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201cas do others\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0who are of the night. \u00a0If anyone insists that they do not know the day and the hour, and should not know, maybe they are merely announcing that they are of the night, and have been distracted by the drunkenness of the times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">8.\u00a0 Another Name:<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0Those who say, \u201cNo one knows the day or the hour,\u201d should know that that phrase was actually how the Feast of Trumpets was described.\u00a0 It is the only Feast that they have to wait to sight the new moon before the day is announced.\u00a0 That is why there are two days, any of which could be the day of the feast when the moon is sighted.\u00a0 So, Jesus was actually naming the day in the very expression by which it seemed He was coding it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Some have been very careful about the dates, not because they do not believe the message, but because they are cowards, afraid of being called \u2018date setters.\u2019\u00a0 They are earnestly preparing, but are shamefully apologetic when they have to call the month of September this year and the dates of the Feast of Trumpets. Fear of men?\u00a0 Fear of being wrong? It is repulsive cowardice.\u00a0 As for me, I have begun to prepare practically.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">These are my final words.\u00a0 I have done my part.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand:\u00a0<\/span><\/i><b><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">repent<\/span><\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0ye, and believe the gospel \u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/i><b><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">He that hath an ear<\/span><\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches \u2026 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still \u2026\u00a0 behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be \u2026<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein:\u00a0<\/span><\/i><b><i><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">for the time is at hand<\/span><\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0(Mark 1:15; Revelation 1:3; 2:7; 22:11-12).\u00a0 Amen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u25cf <strong>The Preacher&#8217;s Diary can be reached at thepreacherdiary.com.<\/strong><\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_250815_170227_464.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Continued from yesterday, Thursday, 14th August 2025) By The Preacher&#8217;s Diary 5.\u00a0 NASA Warns about Alien Invasion Recently, astronomers have spotted what they described as an \u201calien mothership\u201d approaching Earth from an unknown realm in outer space.\u00a0 They call it the \u201c3i\/Atlas,\u201d with a size between 15 \u2013 24 kilometres in diameter, travelling towards Earth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":94819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772,5777],"tags":[7261,5153,7260],"class_list":["post-94816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith","category-features","tag-comet","tag-day","tag-hour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}