Matthew 24:33
“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this life; and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but my Father only.”
My Comment:
And that pretty much takes care of anyone who says that specific historical events can be foretold from the Bible…
[Correction: “specific historical events” – means, in this context, the “last days” of the apocalyptic passages in the Gospel.]
Even the scripture that they claim as infallible in its literal sense contradicts them..
I’m no expert, but I’ve always thought that hour and day deal only applied to one specific event and no other.
Yes – I believe it does..
and I think elsewhere, Jesus does suggest that you can look at the signs of the times and know what season it is..i.e. what’s likely to be..
but I think he was generally cautioning against the hubris of making predictions…