Hi Bob, The shadow,so you cherry picking now NO MAN KNOWS it is CLEAR
so by you claiming to know you are now claiming to be the father in heaven! sorry if the rapture is 7 years before the return then that date to is by default NOT KNOWN. and CAN NOT BE KNOWN BY ANY ONE BUT THE FATHER IN HEAVEN.
I don't cherry pick anything. This is the exact opposite. YOU cherry pick 'no one knows' and don't address the context of that sentence. So, it is not clear for YOU. There are several steps and you just mix them all.
The date of the return of Christ (possible to be known from other biblical sources) is NOT the individual rapture date (impossible to know).
I don't claim to know, on the contrary. I said that ONLY GOD KNOWS. But what you fail to understand (because YOU cherry pick) is WHAT is impossible to know:
the DAY and the HOUR of the rapture for EACH one of the hundreds of millions of elect during a SECOND period of 7 years.
It seems that you didn't understand that the rapture starts 7 years AFTER the real return of Christ as the Male Child (late 2017 to late 2024)...followed by that 7 years long period of the rapture (2024 to 2031).
What the famous 'no one knows the day or the hour' can ONLY be applied to is that second 7 years long period. And I don't know the DAY or the HOUR of the rapture of EACH of the hundreds of millions elect. ONLY GOD KNOWS THEM (day / hour multiplied by hundreds of millions people).
The problem is that 99% of the Christians have a big reading skill problem to solve here. The order of the different aspects of the narrative of the end times described in Matthew 24, as already explained in one of my post above, shows that Christ actually comes in the 'clouds' BEFORE 'what is near', aka the rapture, the day and the hour of which is known only by God:
So, when you see the SIGN of the Son of Man IN HEAVEN + the Son of Man coming on the CLOUDS OF HEAVEN + ALL THE PEOPLES of the earth MOURNING + a loud TRUMPET CALL, THEN you will know that IT IS NEAR.
Yes, you just read it. The Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven is but a step BEFORE the reader could be taken, soon or not (just near). At least, the latter knows that IT IS NEAR. But how near? What is near [and can't be known] is precisely ONE'S OWN RAPTURE.
The day or the hour, that can't be known, are for each one of us, if selected, for it would be impossible to anyone, except God, to remember the list of the people (several millions), their locations and their rapture date.
Yes, you just read it. The Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven is but a step BEFORE the reader could be taken, soon or not (just near). At least, the latter knows that IT IS NEAR. But how near? What is near [and can't be known] is precisely ONE'S OWN RAPTURE.
The day or the hour, that can't be known, are for each one of us, if selected, for it would be impossible to anyone, except God, to remember the list of the people (several millions), their locations and their rapture date.
At last, for someone saying that Jesus Christ is a myth you put a lot of energy to tell me that no one knows his 'return'.
I am not surprised, with this contradiction, that you don't know the Bible you try and fail to speak about.