What difference does that make?
The hour and the day have already passed. He is here! And let all truly
consecrated Christians rejoice. "But of the times and the seasons,
brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you," says St. Paul.
(1 Thessalonians 5:1) The times and seasons are clearly established by the
overwhelming proof that the Lord is now present. Therefore, "ye,
brethren, are not in darkness, ... ye are all the children of light, and
the children of the day; we are not of the night, nor of darkness". Why
quibble now about dates, days or hours? The physical facts, the
fulfilled prophecy and prophecy further in course of fulfillment, prove
overwhelmingly and beyond the shadow of a doubt that the Lord is
present, that the world has ended, that the kingdom of heaven is at
hand! And the true watchers are joyfully exclaiming: "Behold the
Bridegroom!" As faithful members of his body, as the feet of him, they
are standing upon the mountains, that is, upon or above the kingdoms of
earth, singing out to the peoples of Zion: 'Thy God reigneth! The
kingdom of heaven is at hand!' The Prophet of the Lord describes them
thus: "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that
bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings
of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God
reigneth! Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together
shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall
bring again Zion.
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