Of course he's not. My point though was that this forummer had interpreted Scripture in a particular way, had decided that it proved that he was, and was getting rather annoyed with anyone who disagreed, saying that to do so was to doubt God.
If we have accepted Jesus, confess him as Saviour and Lord, are filled with his Spirit and are children of God, we will be ready for his return. If we are ready we will not be caught out or found wanting - even if we weren't expecting him to come on that particlar time.
And my concern is that people might spend either so long looking into the sky - like the disciples did at the ascension - or examining the leteer of Scripture and trying to decipher the code they believe to be there, that they will fail to look at the need around them and not carry out the Comission that Jesus gave us. If it was possible to work out times and seasons, I don't think Jesus would have told so many parables about being ready or urged repentance. They will be no virture in saying, in heaven, "I saw him before you did."
1 Thess----
The Day of the Lord
1Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you,
2for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
3While people are saying, Peace and safety, destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
4But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief.
5You are all children of the light and children of the day.
What is the times and seasons of God?
THE CHANGING OF TIMES AND TORAH COMMANDS
KJV Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws ...
1 Maccabees 1:49: To the end they might forget the law, and change all the ordinances.
Antiochus IV Epiphanes DECREED that you NOT follow the "times and seasons" of the Torah (weekly Sabbath and annual Festivals days) and other Torah commands.
Constanatine Christianity says Yeshua is Messiah and changed the sabbath and annual festival days given by Moses in the Torah.
This AntiChrist is to change the times and the seasons so that the people of God will not know the times and season of God.
Any time Rosh Hashanah was talked about, it was said,'' Of that hour and day no man knoweth. It is Jewsih Idiom about Yom Hakeseh{the hidden day}
We are to know the times and seasons like the back of our hand.
This is called, '' Watching.''
And we are to watch on specific days.
But the idea of Antichrist is to turn all the people of God away from the knowledge of the visitation days of Christ.
If we know who Christ really is, then we know what is to be word at the wedding feast, we should know what we should be doing on the days God has given us to prepare for.
Just believing in Jesus doesn't prepare us for what we are to prepare for.
Thousands of years of practicing the coming of the Lord and his days of visitation so that we will by no mean not know what we are to do.
Knowing the times and the seasons is knowing how Jesus fulfilled Shemini Atzereth, Sukkot, Passover and things Jesus has to do.
If we do not know the times and seasons then Jesus WILL be as a thief to those who do not watch, and they will not know what day or what hour he comes.'''
It has always been the Job of the antichrist to turn the whole world against God's Holy days and he has done an excellent job in doing so.
There is no reading Revelation when one does not study the days of visitation,
We have been forever waiting on a false Messiah to come and pass laws against the Holy days of God, and to persecute all those who keep the Holy days of Jesus.
I say that this has already happened and furthermore, the people who claim to follow the lamb wherever he goes, do not know him, because they do not know his missions, his Holy days, his traditions,
There are two Messiahs, One Messiah has all his Holy days written down and these are appointed visitation days that prove who the Messiah is, and we prove that we follow him because we know him, and we prove that we love him enough to find out everything written concerning who and what he is, and what he comes to do, and we prepare for these events.
The AntiChrist is a Messiah who many people look to as being a Messiah of Babylon and all his ways are from Babylon.
He looks just like Jesus, except that he and his followers are against the commandments of God and they stand against all that is called or God or that is worshipped{Holy days and feasts.}.....
The book of Revelation details this antichrist and his followers by connecting him to the most ancient presumed Messiah who was supposedly resurrected through the death of Nimrod.
Tammuz, the resurrected Nimrod is no doubt the antichrist and has always been such.
That's exactly why we find the 666 where we find the name,'' Tammuz''
WE as Christians are given sure promises that will by no means come and go without incidence.
The fall rains of the second coming of Jesus gives us promises that if we are prepared, we can receive that Promise.
But the devil does not want you to know the day of that promise, he does not want you to prepare as those before us prepared and received the promise.
The devil does not want people repenting before the great day of the Lord, he does not want Elijah to come and restore the appointed days so that people will be prepared.
Revelation 3: 2 is not some idle thing that Jesus is telling us to do.
Remember therefore how you have received and heard; Hold fast and repent. THEREFORE IF YOU WILL NOT WATCH{THE TIMES AND SEASONS}, I WILL COME UPON YOU AS A THIEF.''
And this is what the devil wants, he doesn't want anyone keeping any of the Holy days taught by Jesus.
He stands to keep the times and the seasons changed as they have been changed ,Lo, these many centuries.
He stands against everything that is called of God and that is worshipped and his job is to turn the children of Israel away from their maker, away from the inctructions given to us by God.
