A Storm is Near … or the Second Coming?

Can you know when a storm is near?

Well yes, often we can know, but still people are at times caught by surprise by these things. You are busy. You may not be noticing the sky, or listening to the weather reports. Yes there may be clouds, but often there are clouds and they may mean little or nothing. Then out of no where, obscured by a driving rain, comes an F4 tornado that can wreck great havoc over a wide area.

A really bad storm can make a believer out of you. If a town is in tornado alley, and has been hit more than once, the presence of public shelters and home made root cellars/ tornado shelters are more widely seen. The people pay closer attention to signs of trouble.

The solution of the local television stations is their “weather app,” their weather software. That app knows the physical location of your phone, and notifies you if you are in the path of a storm.

Even so there are many misses in modern weather forecasting. Despite all of our technology, and satellites looking at the cloud patterns, and multiple radar technologies, they often get it completely wrong, don’t they? There may be days of stern warnings of terrible weather coming, all of which may end in absolutely nothing happening. Forecasts of fearsome weather catastrophes absolutely going to happen in twenty years in the future? Well, although they put a good face on it, they very often cannot get the weather forecast right for tomorrow!!

But then on the other hand, can we say with some confidence that we will get some rain two months from now? Well, yes we can. We may not know how much, or when or where? We can easily say with confidence that there will be some rain two months from now, be it little or much.

Now can we tell the day or the hour rain will fall two months from now? No! Although there will be some, somewhere.

Still if that rain is about to happen two months from now … will there be signs of it about to fall? For sure there will be. There will be clouds in the sky. The wind will be picking up. Sometimes you can even smell the coming rain in the air, or see the squalls approaching from a distance. We will have near warning that it may be about to happen.

So notice carefully:

The fact that we do not know the day or the hour does not preclude the presence of signs that it is near.

Jesus clearly says that we will not know the day or the hour of the Second Coming.

“But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.” Mk 13:32-33 KJV

Now some from knowing this, have jumped to the dogmatic conclusion, that there cannot be any signs that these things are about to happen.

But that is clearly not so. Indeed, you may not know the day nor the hour, but may know that these things are near! Lk 21:28, Heb 10:25.

KJV is the King James Version, 1611.

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