Get ready

Apparently Jesus will return somewhere around the year 2015.

Naturally, there are quite a few things wrong with this pastor's idea.

First, that he is so focused on the coincidence of four lunar eclipse with "God's holy days" between 2014 and 2015. We're using the Gregorian calendar. What if we were using a different calendar where this didn't quite match up? We've changed calendars a time or two in the past; what's to say we couldn't do it again soon and so mess up God's signals?

Second, Jesus says: "It is not for you to know the times or seasons that the Father has established by his own authority" (Acts 1:7).

The Lord elsewhere says: "But of that day or hour, no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father" (Mark 13:32; see also Matthew 24:36).

Furthermore,

This seems simple enough. If the time is not to be known by the Apostles, how could we think we could know it? It's an arrogant thought, really. We ought not be concerned with trying to determine the exact time of Jesus' return - we can't even do so - but we ought to live ready for his return each day of our lives.

What does Saint Paul say? "Concerning times and seasons, brother, you have no need for anything to be written for you" (I Thessalonians 5:1).

Many have tried to determine the timing of the Second Coming in the past and no good has come of it.