Lars!
I see you have the Iron Rod. I'm certain a child can see what you are saying. But a lot of rulers have iron rods--and Jesus never told me to watch for numbers--I have to go with Jesus I or Jesus II on this.
I will be on the watch. Since I don't know the day or the hour, sleep will have to wait. Besides, trying to be loving isn't the worst thing--especially if the other disciples are doing the same. It ain't so bad, waiting.
Jesus talked alot, enough that you could catch the sense of what his "voice" would be even if he came in a second coming--like the way the disciples recognized him eventually on the road to Emmaus .
He told us how to know his disciples, by the love they have among themselves. The FDS had numbers and an Iron Rod. they beat me with it. I believe they may have fullfiled the scriptures because they got impatient for the Master to arrive. But the Master may not like what they're doing to folks like me.
Like I said,Jesus talked enough that people caught the sense of what he said--In fact, far from tight numerical equations, he spoke parables! Something clever about that, imo, is that nobody much screwed around with altering his parables. And over the years, archeology,translations, history don't tangle them up. They age well.
Why would a God of love do it different?
If we trust anything in the bible, shouldn't we let the teachings that Jesus EXPLICITLY gave to us be the measure of matters?
How can you not hear yourself? You must know that Jesus brought comfort and healing--to you and me. Why isn't love the key? Jesus said it was.
