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us a clue to the exact date of Christ's return, and therefore to attempt to arrive at the date by such calculations is an attempt at the impossible. It is a part of God's pur pose and method in dealing with men to keep them in uncertainty on this point. The things which are revealed belong unto us, but this is one of the "secret things (which) belong unto Jehovah our God'' (Deut. 29 :29). The prophecies of Daniel were extant in the day when Jesus uttered the words found in Matt. 24 :36 and Mark 13 :32, and doubtless He understood the lessons those prophecies were intended to teach, but He distinctly declares that even He did not know the day nor the hour of His coming again. As a man setting an example for us to fol low in His steps, He had put away the knowl edge of the time of this event. After His resurrection our Lord declared to His dis ciples that God did not desire us to know the time when He should return again. When His disciples asked Him, "Lord dost thou at this time restore the kingdom of Israel,'' He said unto them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons, which the Father hath set within his own authority" (Acts 1 :6, 7). Let us leave the times where God has put
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