Why did Jesus say no one knows the day or hour?
Jesus spoke from His humanity, not His deity. Although He remained fully God, He was also fully man, so He could honestly say He did not know the day or hour. Had He spoken from His divine side, He could have named the exact day and hour.
Les explains that Matthew 24:36 prompts many questions, especially from the television audience, because Jesus said no man knows that day or hour, not even the angels, but only the Father. Les teaches that when Jesus took on His form of flesh, He did not stop being God; He was totally God, yet totally man. Here Jesus speaks from His humanity side, so from that side He did not know the day and hour. Had He spoken from His God side, He could have given the exact day and hour. He knew, but He was not playing games; He spoke from His humanity side and could honestly say no man knoweth the hour. As a man, He could say He did not know.
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
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Did Jesus know the exact day and hour as God even though He said He did not know?
Although Jesus did not know the day and hour from His human side, as God He knew the exact day and hour and could have said it if He had spoken from His divine side.