us to know the date of Jesus’s coming, and we need to trust him and accept that fact. The motto of both the Girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts is “Be prepared.” This charge is a major function of Second Coming texts, as Jesus’s words indicate: This is why you are also to be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. (Matt 24:44) Watch! Be alert! For you don’t know when the time is coming. It is like a man on a journey, who left his
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