Are you confused when it comes to Bible prophecy and the return of Jesus? Join the crowd. Go into any Christian bookstore, or YouTube, and you will find more teachers, theories, “revelations”, dreams and prognostications than you can count. Go to Amazon and search on the term “Bible Prophecy” and you’ll get over 7,000 returns – never mind using other terms like “End times,” “The Anti-Christ”, and others.

I’m Reid Ferguson, and we’ll have more about that in a moment on today’s edition of Through the Word in 2020.

Bible prophecy is one of those topics that not only stimulates our curiosity, for some, the need to try and tease out every detail of Jesus’ return and the events which may (or may not) surround it, have spawned more books, sermons and sadly – speculations – than can fully be digested. There is no question the Bible speaks clearly and emphatically that Jesus WILL return. That doctrine is central to Christianity itself. But prying beyond what is plainly revealed and is even warned against by Jesus Himself has led to movements, outlooks, failed guesses and even harm to many throughout the centuries.

Now the problem here is much like the one of the man of God in 1 Kings. He knew full well what God had told him about not eating and drinking after his mission. But someone came along and said they had had an angelic visitation – had new revelation that modified what he knew full well God had already said. And the end of that was tragic.

So, what about end times? “You DO NOT KNOW.” Neither do I. Neither does anyone else. And no one will have any new revelation or insight that will go beyond Jesus’ words. No matter how scholarly, how logical, how intriguing, how Biblical or spiritual sounding. We will not know beyond He has said.

And what He DID say was this: “STAY AWAKE”. Watch. Pursue His Kingdom and His righteousness. Watch, expect, and order your life toward His return. And when He comes – you won’t be able to miss it. Jesus told us that “as lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of man be in His day.” You won’t be able to miss it if you never read a single book on End Times Prophecy.

You can’t make it happen sooner, and you can’t prevent it. None of the things He has said must come to pass can be averted. And no secret code, no revelation or dream can alter it in the least. We can’t know.

But we CAN stay awake.

Muse on that today Christian. And look for Him.

God bless. And God willing, we’ll be back tomorrow.