[Acts 1:6] So when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?"

[Acts 1:7] He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has fixed by his own authority.

Who was Jesus speaking to? The Disciples who were asking WHEN He would return... EXPECTING Him to return in THEIR lifetimes! Jesus wasnt talking to US in the 21st century, He was SPECIFICALLY talking to the Disciples right then and there who had an expectation the 2nd coming would be in THEIR lifetimes.

The Almighty is a God of appointed times, and date setting.


[Gen 18:14] Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

[Exod 9:5] And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land.

[Exod 23:15] Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)

[Josh 8:14] And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.

[1Sam 13:8] And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.

[1Sam 20:35] And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him.

[2Sam 20:5] So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him.

[2Sam 24:15] So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.

[Ezra 10:14] Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.

[Neh 5:14] Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.

[Neh 10:34] And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:

[Neh 12:44] And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.

[Neh 13:31] And for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.

[Esth 9:27] The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;

[Esth 9:31] To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.

[Job 7:1] Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
[Job 14:14] If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

[Pss 81:3] Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

[Isa 14:31] Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.

[Jer 8:7] Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.

[Jer 46:17] They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.

[Dan 8:19] And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be.

[Dan 10:1] In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.

[Dan 11:27] And both of these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.

[Dan 11:29] At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter.

[Dan 11:35] And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.

[Hab 2:3] For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

[Acts 17:26] And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
[Gal 4:2] But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.

So tell me... WHY would God appoint EVERYTHING throughout ALL of history... Old and New Testament if the LAST thing was NOT to be a known appointed time as well?

And in fact, over and over and over, scripture says that we would know WHEN those appointed times would take place.


[Mark 13:23] But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.

[Luke 8:17] For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.

[Mark 4:22] For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.

[1John 2:20] But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.

[1John 2:27] But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

[Amos 3:7.17] Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

[1Pet 1:5] Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
[Isa 46:8] "Remember this and consider, recall it to mind, you transgressors,

[Isa 46:9] remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,

[Isa 46:10] declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, `My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,'