Jesus' vs. Father's knowledge of the end times

[Rob_in_Oregon]

Friends: I’m a faithful Latin Rite Catholic, and Augustine’s and Aquinas’ theology about the dynamics of the Trinity make sense to me, as best I understand it. However, if the Son fully shares the perfect knowledge of the Father, how can the Father know the timing of the end of the world, and the Son not know?

 

[chimo]

Friends: I’m a faithful Latin Rite Catholic, and Augustine’s and Aquinas’ theology about the dynamics of the Trinity make sense to me, as best I understand it. However, if the Son fully shares the perfect knowledge of the Father, how can the Father know the timing of the end of the world, and the Son not know?

Jesus knows the time of the end and there is very good reason why? In His discourse to the Apostles He talks about the conditions prior to the end. Since Jesus knows about the future conditions which will lead to the end it is obvious that He knows when. The point of Jesus words regarding the Father was this. Jesus will never tell us when it will happen, I mean the exact dates. He has chosen never to reveal it. However this is He can warn us and He has done so especially with the Divine Mercy messages. The warning though is more of a wake up call for the Church to do more. The end corresponds to what the Church is doing or more precisely to the lack of what the Church is doing. The wake up calls for instance of His Divine Mercy messages is to help us and the Church to extend time otherwise we may have reached to the point when the Father will send His Son. In other words the end is a conditional end not a precise end since certain conditions must be there for the Father to end the history of this planet.

 

[mikekle]

I think its also very important to recognize the ‘signs’ Jesus said he would send to warn us when the time is near, many people say these signs are too general and they have always been happening, and to some degree, they are right, but they dont realize, right now, there has never been a time when so many have happened or are happening at the same time…that is the key.

One of the things that has me convinced is not so long ago, I was reading online about many people, all over the world, have reported seeing white or gold crosses in the sky, was surprising how many have seen this, but these events are not widely reported, so most people dont even know its going on. I also noticed quite a few people see what appears to be a single flame (like from a candle) or fire that sort of resembles a camp fire in the sky,I have a feeling these things are part of the signs Jesus spoke about.

I think far too many try to deny these things or explain them away due to being scared, for many people, the second coming is going to be extremely frightening, they will suddenly recognize its all true and time has run out, and life as we know it, is going to change drastically.

Jesus knew if people knew that he knew the exact date and time when this would happen, they would bug him about constantly, better to just tell people he didnt know.