The Imminence of the Second Coming; the Uncertainty of its Precise "Day and Hour"
The Imminence of the Second Coming; the Uncertainty of its Precise "Day and Hour" Below is the 41st of multiple excerpts from Parts I and II of The Parousia , the late 19th-century masterpiece on the Second Coming by James Stuart Russell. The initial 31 posts on this blog deal with the Book of Revelation, which is cogently interpreted in Part III of Russell's magnum opus. (For all blog posts, see russellparousia.blogspot.com) "Certainty of the consummation, yet uncertainty of its precise date. [Matt. 24:36: 'But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.' [Mark 13:32: 'But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.' ] "Although our Lord has defined the limits of the time within which the predicted consummation would take place [see verses below this excerpt] , yet a certain amount of indefiniteness remains respecting the mo...