CHAPTER V.
THE TIME OF OUR LORD'S RETURN 0 VER and over again we are told in the Word of God that the exact time of our Lord's return is not known, and cannot be known, by man. Our Lord Jesus Himself declares in Matt. 24:35, "But of that day and hour knoweth no one, not even the angels of heaven, neither the Son, but the Father only." And on the ground of this fact that we do not know the exact time of our Lord's return He says, "Watch there fore; for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh" (Matt. 24:42). In Mark 13:32, our Lord says, ''But of that day or that hour knoweth no one, not even the angels in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father." Many are trying by calculations from the data given in Daniel to fix the exact date of our Lord's return, but all such calculations are utterly unreliable. The statements in the book of Daniel were not intended to give
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