My God and My Country

The Gospel According to Mark

Chapter 13:32-37

32 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the Angels which are in heaven, neither the Son himself, but the Father.
33 Take heed: watch, and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
34 For the Son of man is as a man going into a strange country, and leaveth his house, and giveth authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commandeth the porter to watch.
35 Watch ye therefore, (for ye know not when the master of the house will come, at even, or at midnight, at the cock crowing, or in the dawning,)
36 Lest if he come suddenly, he should find you sleeping.
37 And those things that I say unto you, I say unto all men, Watch.

Verse 32 - The latter day is not curiously to be searched for which the Father alone knoweth: but let us rather take heed, that it come not upon us unaware. - Footnote GNV translation

Brethren:

Read the entire chapter of the Gospel According to Matthew Chapter 24, as there is more being said on this topic.

Now, the keys herein above are to take heed, that is to say, listen with attentiveness to these words, and be sure to act upon it. Let you not be unaware of what is to happen. Watch for the signs that will be available before the end times cometh. And most importantly, give yourselves over to prayer daily, that you will be found blameless and without spot. (Read 2 Peter 3:14; Revelation 14:5)

“The addition to St. Matthew’s report is every way remarkable. It indicates the self-imposed limitation of the divine attributes which had belonged to our Lord as the eternal Son, and the acquiescence in a power and knowledge which, like that of the human nature which He assumed, were derived and therefore finite. Such a limitation is implied by St. Paul, when he says that our Lord “being in the form of God . . . made Himself of no reputation” (or better, emptied Himself), “and took upon Him the form of a servant.” (Read Philippians 2:6-7). It is clear that we cannot consistently take the word “knoweth” as having a different meaning in this clause from that which it bears in the others; and we must therefore reject all interpretations which explain away the force of the words as meaning only that the Son did not declare His knowledge of the time of the far-off event.” - JC Ellicott - Theologian