“It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.”
That this restriction was for the Church is the declaration of the Apostle. This is what he said to the Church at Thessalonica:
“Of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.”
Why had he no need to write to them?
Because the day of the Lord, he said, should come as a thief, and as that day is introduced by the Coming of the Lord for His Church, then His coming for the Church was, as He Himself afterwards declared in his letter to Sardis, like the coming of a thief. This Coming Paul had described in the fourth chapter of his first letter to the Thessalonians.
It was not for the Church to know in Paul’s day when the Lord should come as the bridegroom for His bride.
No revelation has been given in any epistle to the Church since. What was true in Paul’s day as to the attitude of the Church is true in this day. Listen to the commended attitude of the Thessalonian Church:
“Ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God; and to wait for his Son from heaven.”
There you have it.
The Church is to wait; that means to watch, to expect, to be ready.