The Master Himself said:
“You know not what hour your Lord doth come.”
Who is he who will have the hardihood to fix the hour when the Master has said no man knows?
Who is he who will put a thousand years between the Church and her returning Lord?
Where is the difference between a thousand years’ delay and one moment that can be fixed by any man?
If the Lord says you do not know the hour and necessarily do not know the minute of the hour, if you fix a minute between us and the Coming you deny the words of the Son of God Himself that the minute and the hour are unknown.
Who is he who has it all fixed and polished and pumice stoned to the exact date?
The Lord has said no man on earth knows, not an angel in heaven knows. He Himself took the place of a servant and by the exercise of His omnipotent will residing in His eternal and unchanged personality as Son of God and God the Son, shut out the knowledge of it from His humanity, from Himself as man, and said He did not know when He should come.
Admit that a revelation has since been given to Him as a man or that He has taken the ban off His human side Himself and that He knows when He will come for the Church and the exact hour of His appearing in glory; admit this if you like and for the sake of argument (although there is not the slightest shade of a shadow of evidence for such an argument) it still remains that no such revelation has ever been given to the Church; neither has the restriction of the Son of God to His disciples been removed. You remember what He said just before He ascended!
This is what He said: