THE TIME OF JESUS’ RETURN CANNOT BE PREDICTED
A day or date, year or season cannot be linked to Jesus’ return
Sakkie Parsons
Someone wrote to me and asked my opinion about new revelations or prophecies—such as some great catastrophe or whatever is supposed to happen on September 23, 2025, which, so to speak, will usher in the end times. Immediately, red lights go on for me.
Anyone who proclaims a new revelation, or gives a prophecy about the end times and connects it to a day, or a date, or a year, etc., must be regarded with suspicion—because what they are doing is unbiblical.
Not even Jesus Himself could have done that while He was here on earth.
So, in my opinion, such a revelation is clear evidence that the person is making a false statement. In other words, they are proclaiming a lie. And everyone who then spreads it further and proclaims it in that way is proclaiming a lie. And every lie, however it is expressed, has its origin in Satan. Jesus Himself said:
John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and it is your will to practice the desires [which are characteristic] of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks what is natural to him, for he is a liar and the father of lies and half-truths.
When I hear such rumors or “revelations,” or whatever a person chooses to call them, and people ask me:
“What now? What should I do?”—I answer:
Do what you have always done. And if you have not always done it, now is the best time to begin:
First:
Make sure your relationship with our Lord is right.
In other words, make sure that you have a love relationship with Jesus.
Many people know about Jesus, and many even believe they know Jesus. But knowing about Him, or even knowing Him, does not mean that I have a relationship—a love relationship—with Jesus, and that I will arrive on the other side of the grave together with Jesus’ Holy Spirit, who lived with me in my earthly body.
Many people know about me, and many who know about me also know me—but most of those people do not have a relationship with me, such as an intimate relationship.
Many people knew about Jesus when He was here on earth proclaiming His Gospel, and many of them—even His enemies like the Pharisees and the scribes—knew Him. But they left this life and entered hell, those who had not made things right with Him.
Jesus said of them:
Matthew 15:7–8
7 You hypocrites (play-actors, pretenders), rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you when he said,
8 ‘This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far away from Me.’
And in another place, He goes further and says to those who know about Him and even know Him:
Matthew 23:32–34
32 Fill up, then, the [allotted] measure of the guilt of your fathers’ sins.
33 You serpents, you spawn of vipers, how can you escape the penalty of hell?
34 Therefore take notice, I am sending you prophets and wise men (interpreters, teachers) and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues, and pursue and persecute from city to city…
So, when new revelations or prophecies appear with dates—or even seasons—attached to them, and I hear about them, the red lights immediately go on in my heart. Because not even Jesus—the One who will ultimately come—did this, not once.
Therefore, I also say to people who tell me about new revelations, signs, and things that are connected to days, months, years, etc.:
First, make sure that what I mentioned above is a reality in your life.
And second, if your relationship with our Lord is right, keep your eyes fixed on Jesus:
Hebrews 12:1–4
1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who by faith have testified to the truth of God’s absolute faithfulness], stripping off every unnecessary weight and the sin which so easily and cleverly entangles us, let us run with endurance and active persistence the race that is set before us,
2 looking away from all that will distract us and focusing our eyes on Jesus, who is the Author and Perfecter of faith [the first incentive for our belief and the One who brings our faith to maturity], who for the joy [of accomplishing the goal] set before Him endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 Just consider and meditate on Him who endured from sinners such bitter hostility against Himself [consider it all in comparison with your trials], so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
4 You have not yet struggled to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin…
For – know this with certainty: satan has always done this, and now he is doing it even more intensely:
1 Peter 5:8–9
8 Be sober [well balanced and self-disciplined], be alert and cautious at all times. That enemy of yours, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion [fiercely hungry], seeking someone to devour.
9 But resist him, be firm in your faith [against his attack—rooted, established, immovable], knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being experienced by your brothers and sisters throughout the world. [You do not suffer alone.]
Third:
Above all, I must remember—especially in the time in which we now live—what my commission is, and what above everything else I must make my mission in this life:
Matthew 28:18–20
18 Jesus came up and said to them, “All authority (all power of absolute rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations [help the people to learn of Me, believe in Me, and obey My words], baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
20 teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always [remaining with you perpetually—regardless of circumstance, and on every occasion], even to the end of the age.”
How do I do this?
Well, some can preach.
Some can sing.
Some can testify everywhere.
And I could go on. But not all of us can preach, or sing, or testify, etc.
However, we, the followers of Jesus, all have one thing in common:
We live. And not only do we live, but we say we are children of our Lord.
Well then—
Let our lives be the sermon, the song, the testimony.
If we are children of our Lord, let people see through us and in us the family traits of our Father—and then desire to have what we have.
One thing that should never be found among us—those who have received Jesus as our Redeemer and Savior—when we hear all these things people sometimes spread loosely on social networks (most often without checking if there is truth in it, or whether the sources are reliable)—is fear.
Romans 8:14–15
14 For all who are allowing themselves to be led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
15 For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading again to fear [of God’s judgment], but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons [the Spirit producing sonship] by which we [joyfully] cry, “Abba! Father!”
Therefore, praise the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, as we look forward with eager longing and excitement—not with fear or other negativity in our hearts—toward the future and what awaits us. For Jesus, our Redeemer and Savior, says to us, His children:
Revelation 22:12–13
12 “Behold, I (Jesus) am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to each one according to the merit of his deeds [his earthly works, faithfulness].
13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End [the Eternal One].”
So, make sure that the three points I have mentioned above are a reality in your life. Then you will not find it necessary to pay attention to all kinds of revelations, prophecies, or whatever they are called, that give days, months, years, or even seasons for when these things are supposed to happen.
You will be far too wonderfully busy fulfilling your purpose here on earth and being such a blessing and a sweet fragrance for our Lord:
2 Corinthians 2:14–15
14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us spreads and makes evident everywhere the sweet fragrance of the knowledge of Him.
15 For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ [which ascends] to God, discernible both among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.
Sakkie