25/08/2025
The NATIONAL PRAYER ALTAR
*MARATHON PRAYERS*
Monday 25th – Sunday 31st August 2025
*NOBODY KNOWS THE DAY AND THE HOUR? – (Part 1 of 5)*
_And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him (Deut. 18:21-22)._
*INTRODUCTION*
A major concern in the Church has been how to ascertain the veracity of a prophecy. God provided an answer in Deut. 18:21-22. If what the prophet says does not come to pass, God did not speak through him, except in the case of a call to repentance for averting judgment, as was the case of Jonah and Nineveh. When Nineveh repented, Jonah’s prophecy of doom was averted.
This Bible verse should be kept in view as we commence an examination of spiritual, physical, and scientific signs pointing to 23 – 24 September 2025 as the time of the Lord’s return to take His people home. Christians describe that event as the Rapture of the Church. We shall unpack those signs subsequently. The information that shall be presented in the next few weeks with respect to those signs is compelling and demands sober and careful examination. This is not an attempt at sensationalism, nor is it a cause for controversy in the Body of Christ. It is a sincere effort at ensuring that saints are awake and alert, as commanded by the Lord in Luke 21:36: _“Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.”_
The first objection that is likely to arise in the mind of many Christians is that _“no man knows the day and hour, except the Father only,”_ according to Matt. 24:36, but that was a Jewish idiom referring to the Feast of Trumpets. It is like the metaphor of a camel passing through the eye of a needle, which c
