What Paul under inspiration said for his generation, he said for our generation. He said it for you and for me. Because no man knows the hour when the Lord will come it might be in your hour and my hour. 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: "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.