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"NO ONE KNOWS WHEN JESUS IS COMING!" Isn’t it useless to speculate about Bible prophecy since the Bible says that no one knows when Jesus is coming?No. The Bible never says once that we can’t know when Jesus is coming. People read that into the text because that’s what they want it to say. The text in question is Matthew 24:36, where Jesus said, “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.”Technically, the verse deals with the Second Advent, not the rapture of the church. But even then, the verse plainly states that it is the “day and hour” that no one knows, not the general time of our Lord’s return. A good analogy is that of a woman about to give birth (Rev. 12:2; Isa. 66:7-9). No one can predict the exact day and hour that a child will be born, but after a woman has carried a child nearly nine months anyone knows that a birth will come soon.Besides, even the most casual reading of Matthew chapter 24 reveals the folly in suggesting that verse 36 somehow discourages prophetic studies; the whole chapter deals with the SIGNS of the end-time (see verse 3)!