My point is that if no one can know the day or hour, then speculating about the day and hour is an exercise in futility.
Is it said in the Scriptures that Noah knew the day ahead of time?
The fact that he and all his family and all the animals were onboard ready for Yahuah to close the door is confirmation that he heard and obeyed the call when it came.
Also the 5 wise virgins were ready and heard the call - did they never sleep or do anything else, no they were awake at the right time and had oil in their lamps.
"NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." PSALMS 119:105 KJV
The fact that he and all his family and all the animals were onboard ready for Yahuah to close the door is confirmation that he heard and obeyed the call when it came.
But hang on, Noah hearing that call to enter the ark is not the same thing as Noah knowing the day and hour of the calamity to come. We know about as much as Noah did. He was instructed in what to do, as we have been, and was told he was preparing for a day to come. Noah did not know the day nor hour of the calamity to come. Yet, he was ready when God told him it was time.
I have a very very hard time accepting that we should waste our time trying to predict the day and hour when we are told that no one will know the day or hour. God is clear that no one will know the day nor hour -- so why do we bother? The focus should be on being ever ready for it to come like a thief in the night.
Noah had to prepare. He didn't know the exact moment God would tell him to get into the ark. Yet, if the ark was not so built ahead of time, he would not have been ready when the day came "like a thief in the night".
God is clear that no one will know
No, He states:
"But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father." MARK 13:32 KJV
because obviously if no one will know then there will be no one at the wedding.
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