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In response to the question about Lee predicting a date, Tomes article does not indicate that. But it does indicate the year for the Second Coming. And since the first fruits rapture would have had to be s certain time before, there was a new scheme proposed when that time had clearly passed. The original was said to be in 1997. Now they are saying something like 2070.

And this was discussed in a previous thread (and possibly on the old Berean forum) in which Lee somewhat subscribed to a particular date in 1997 based on the writer Tomes mentioned (Ussher or something like that). I think it was late summer or early-mid fall.

In any case, we are now 15 years beyond that date in 1997.

It seems to me that if it were simply 2,000 years from some event in the first century AD, Jesus was fairly cavalier to suggest that he did not know and put everyone to watching for the day back then. It truly needs to be unknown for his statement to stand as anything but either a ruse or a fabrication by the writer.

It is most interesting that in many generations there have been groups that have "found the clues" and it is always within months or a very few years. They see the signs "clearly" and abandon normal life to go to a mountaintop. I'm not dismissing the reality of the Second Coming. I'm dismissing our ability to actually figure it out when Jesus said he didn't know. If all it took as a good mind, then it would seem that Jesus was playing word games because he had the best mind.