The day and hour revealed!

The Day and Hour Revealed!

By Richard P. Joseph

Picture borrowed from internet

There have been many doomsday preachers in my lifetime that have made
predictions of the end of the world and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down.  
Everytime there is a new world leader, blood moon, hurricane, earthquake or war
the “prophets” go into high gear.  However, all I really found was that it only
takes money, power and women to illicit a cult leader to start his bidding for
the end of the world.  So I thought maybe I will take a crack at it.   I actually
believe I have it nailed down to the exact day and hour!  Jesus gave us many
clues to watch for.  

One clue is Matthew 16:27-28

27 For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His
angels, and will then [a]repay every man according to his [b]deeds.

28 “Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who
will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.”

So to start with we can nail down the general time of within about 40 years from
when Jesus made that statement which was in about AD30.  That effectively
eliminates any event after about AD70.

Jesus then talks about wars and rumors of wars.  Much of this information was
conveyed by the historian Josephus who lived during those days.  He records
this upheaval in no uncertain terms when the zealots began raiding the
countryside of Judea in preparation for their upcoming war with Rome.  They
first engaged in a massive civil war in Jerusalem before engaging the main
Roman army.  Jesus’ wars were a reality within that 40 year period.  Nations
(all the city states in that area) were engulfed in this strife then the kingdom of
darkness was fighting the kingdom of light in the unseen realm.  The Jewish
leadership delivered the saints up to the Roman authorities for punishment and
abominable acts of bloodshed etc were performed in and around the temple.  All
of Jesus’ predictions of the end of the age were directed toward the unfaithful
city of Jerusalem so this also secured the time and location of this event as
before AD 70 and in Judea.  

Matthew 24:32 gives the disciples the signs to look for that would indicate that
the parousia (second coming) was about to begin.

32 “Now learn the parable from the fig tree: when its branch has already become
tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near;33 so, you too,
when you see all these things, [u]recognize that [v]He is near, right at the
[w]door. 34 Truly I say to you, this [x]generation will not pass away until all these
things take place. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass
away.

In other words, they might not know the exact day and hour but they would
know when it is very imminent.  What really occurred is spelled out in the
gospels but I will not go through all of that in this short article but if you go
through Matthew 24-25 you will see this pattern take place.  The epistles also
follow this pattern in real time.   First there was the Neronian persecution against
the church.  The Jews and the perverted Roman dictator began a vicious
persecution  of the Christians starting in 64 and ending in 66 AD.  Ed Stevens
labeled this period as the tribulation.  Then this slaughter was cut short by the
rapture.

Matthew 24:29-21 “But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will
be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from
[r]the sky, and the powers of [s]the heavens will be shaken.30 And then the
sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth
will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky
with power and great glory. 31 And He will send forth His angels with a great
trumpet and they will gather together His [t]elect from the four winds, from one
end of the sky to the other.

Josephus tells us that a few days after Passover in the year 66, angelic armies
were seen in the sky over Jerusalem.  He gives the day and hour of this event.
Shortly thereafter,  the priests also heard what sounded like people leaving the
underworld (hades).

Josephus (A.D. 75) - Jewish Historian

"Besides these [signs], a few days after that feast, on the one- and-twentieth day of the
month Artemisius, [Jyar,] a certain prodigious and incredible phenomenon appeared; I
suppose the account of it would seem to be a fable, were it not related by those that saw it,
and were not the events that followed it of so considerable a nature as to deserve such
signals; for, before sun-setting, chariots and troops of soldiers in their armour were seen
running about among the clouds, and surrounding of cities. Moreover, at that feast which
we call Pentecost, as the priests were going by night into the inner [court of the] temple, as
their custom was, to perform their sacred ministrations, they said that, in the first place, they
felt a quaking, and heard a great noise, and after that they heard a sound as of a great
multitude, saying, "Let us remove hence" (Jewish Wars,VI-V-3).

So if we sequence this (as biblical historian Ed Stevens might do) it would look like this:

1. Tribulation against the church.
2. Visible sighting of angelic armies in sky.
3. Hades being emptied of its contents and rapture event.
4. Visitation (second coming) of Christ which lasted 3 ½ years which was the wrath against
   the unfaithful harlot (Jerusalem).

So my friends, the very day and hour has now been revealed as the 21st day of Artemisius
(a few days after passover) in the year AD 66 just before sunset.  Now you know and you
won’t have to fall for any more scams or faulty theology.  

When Jesus told his disciples that they would not know the exact day nor hour, he was
correct but fortunately we now know because it is a past event.  We no longer have to make
excuses why Jesus made mistakes because the fact is, he didn’t.  

Matthew 25:13 Be on the alert then, for you do not know the day nor the hour.