Hebrew Idiom concerning the phrase...No man knows the day or the hour, no not the angels in heaven nor the son but only the father.(Matthew 24:36 and Mark 13:32,Scripture taken out of context.)Here we see the same phrase used by two different writers quoting the words of Yeshua (Jesus). This Hebrew Idiom (or Figure of speech) is well known in the Hebrew culture as being tied to two specific things. Well this context only has two references in Hebraic culture and they mean two things.To be prepared for a wedding day,and only a reference to the feast of Yom Teruah(The Feast of Trumpets).The wedding connection: It is and was customary when the bride and groom marry in the Hebrew culture not to come together and consummate their marriage until the groom has built and prepared a home for them in which to live. (Remember the story of Joseph and Mary.) When they are betrothed in the wedding ceremony they are legally married to each other but they don’t live with each other at that time. As the Husband/Groom is working on the house, many times his friends would stop by and ask him when he will be finished, to which he would answer “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” It is only after his father has inspected the house and has determined that it is ready will he say to his son “Okay son, go get your bride!” or words to that effect. Throughout the year there are seven Feasts of the Lord that were given to His people to assemble themselves and celebrate. Yeshua (Jesus) kept these Feasts according to the instructions found in Leviticus 23. But, He not only kept them, He also fulfilled their prophetic purpose. The Spring Feasts (Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, and Pentecost) were a prophetic foretelling of His first coming of which He fulfilled down to the smallest detail. The Fall Feasts (Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles) are a prophetic foretelling of His second coming of which He is expected to fulfill just as He did the first time during the four Spring Feasts, in which were all fulfilled by our Messiah on the very days themselves. Every “Feast” (with the exception for one) is given a date in which we know that Feast will start. The only one we can’t know is the “Feast of Trumpets” in which starts on the 1st day of the month at the sighting of the new moon.Thus it is known as the Feast that starts… “But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father”. Or simply… No Man knows the day or the hour.It is important to remember when reading scripture that the Bible works on a different time table than we are use to. Their days start when the sun has set, rather than when the sun comes up. Reference Genesis Chapter One. Also, every month on the Hebrew Calendar starts with the sighting of a new moon. Unlike the calendar we are used to (The Gregorian Calendar) to which has a specific number of days given to each month.When Yeshua (Jesus) answered them with the statement… No man knows the day or the hour… They understood perfectly what “Season” of the year He would return; They even knew during what Feasts He would return, this was part of their common understanding. They just didnt know what year He would return. They were hoping to see Him return again during their lifetime. Anxious with anticipation. This would explain Paul’s statement about the end times here in… 1 Thessalonians 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. They understood things we have to search for because it was their culture (not ours) they were living in. This Jewish Idiom was used hundreds of years before our Messiah ever said it, but when He did, it was understood by all of His Jewish brethren. It is hard to accept by a westernized mind set, but it is what it is, and now that you know, lets stop taking scripture out of context. This is the Hebrew aspect, the culture and what many Jewish believers had to say. So now you know what Yeshua(Jesus)meant when He spoke this old Jewish Idiom...Shalom!!!
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 16:21:09 +0000
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