"It Is Not For You To
Know"
Acts 1:7
Language could not be more emphatically
clear. The Lord Jesus tells us, "It is not for you to know the times or
the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power."
All men are curious about the future. One
aspect of man's universal fascination with the future is the fact that it
allows him to momentarily escape the realities and responsibilities of the
present. Another reason for this curiosity about future things is that all men
want to avoid any present sense of guilt, condemnation, and judgment.
Certainly, this curiosity also arises from the fact that all human beings have
both a God consciousness and a sense of immortality from which they cannot
escape. But the fact remains - God does not intend for us to know the times and
seasons. He has given no man the ability to map out the future. He has given no
man the key to discover the timetable of predestination. And he never will
(Deut. 29:29; I Thess. 5:1-2).
There are some great events of the future
clearly revealed in Holy Scripture. All God's elect shall be saved (John
God has told us plainly that these things
will happen. But he has given us absolutely no information as to when these
things shall take place. God does not tell us when the end of the world is
coming. He does not even give us a single shred of evidence indicating the
general course of events leading up to the time of the end. Those passages of
Scripture that refer to "signs of the times" are referring to signs
of events that have already taken place, by which these last days,which began two thousand years ago,were announced.
Don Fortner