As full-preterist’s we constantly harp on the importance of the timing statements made by Jesus throughout the New Testament. However the non-full-preterist responds by saying that Jesus Himself said that even He didn’t know when He was going to return. That only the Father did. And I think in some ways they have a good point. However Jesus did know for whatever reason the signs of the times and what things would precede the time of the end. God knew the day and the hour…However the Son of Man in all of His humanity didn’t.
Then somebody pointed something out to me the other day.
Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants—things which must shortly take place.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ was given by God. That same God that actually did know the day and the hour.
Simply put…The timing statements made by Jesus in his humanity and of the other writers of the new testament might rightly be called into question as to the timing of their fulfillment. However the timing statements made in the book of Revelation came directly from God Himself. Not Jesus…Not John…Not the angel, but God the Father.
Therefore, if anyone attempts to use Matthew 24:36, to suggest anything other than a first century fulfillment, I would call into question their understanding of the sovereignty of God the Father.
God the Father did know the day and the hour and it was Him that said that the time was soon, near and at hand.
Revelation 1:1-3 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants—things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw. Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near.
And this is why I stand here boldly as a full-preterist. I am proud to say that God did know the day and the hour. I am proud to say that God is truly sovereign over all things and that all things were fulfilled exactly as He said they would be.
Michael J. Loomis
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