The Time is at Hand
“So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near—at the doors!”
These are the words of the Lord Jesus Christ, recorded in Matthew 24:33 (and Mark 13:29). The Greek word translated as “know” is ginosko, and since it is used in the imperative tense, another way to state this verse would be, “You will know that it is near.” That isn’t a suggestion our Lord made, nor was it a prediction that we’d become aware of the final hours as they drew near (though this is in fact true). No, God in human flesh gave us a command. Much as a mother tells her son, “You will clean up your room before going outside,” Christ was telling us that we not only can know when the time of His return has come, but we had better search the Scriptures and watch for signs.
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