How do Christians predict an exact date for Christ's return?
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Jenny The Great ⭐
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According to scripture, no one will know when anyway, so I think it'd be useless to try, but many denominations try anyway. The Jehova's Witnesses predictee 1878, and were quite adamant for a while, but then after nothing happened in 1878, they revised the date, and revised it again. 1914, 1925, 1975, among several other dates. These were based on a lot of asssumptions about when the world started, patterns in prophecies, patterns in major religious dates, etc. But the fact is that no one really knows the exact dates of things like the great flood or the creation or whatever. Even things we know well, like Jesus' birth and the start and end of the Babylonian exile are give-or-take a few years.
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Those who have done so have inevitably failed. * Perhaps relevant: the Bible teaches that no man knows the day or the hour. SO: the preachers who preach this are either blatantly contradicting the Bible (if they choose a particular date) or are "playing semantics" and choosing a year (and sometimes even a season or month) without choosing a date. * In some cases in history, it seems like the preachers were sincere (wrong, but sincere). But in most cases in history, it seems a clear and obvious attempt by the preacher at "fleecing one's flock". * Harold Camping (of relatively recent fame) is one of those who - clearly - was using this technique to "fleece his flock". He used the same technique multiple times - with multiple flocks.
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