Hamilton Smith · The Day of the Lord 1 Thessalonians 5

It was necessary that the Apostle should write to these believers concerning the true Christian hope, in order to correct their erroneous thoughts as to the coming of the Lord for His saints. But as to the “the times and the seasons”, which relate to the day of the Lord, there was no need to write in detail. Times and seasons, do not refer directly to the Church; they look on to the times, and conditions, in which God will carry out His ways with the earth, as foretold in the prophetic Scriptures. The Lord had said to His disciples, “It is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father has put in his own power” (Acts 1:7). Hence any attempt to calculate and predict the date of the Lord’s coming, from Daniel’s prophecies, or other Scriptures, will be futile, and worse, for it will be an attempt to find out what the Lord definitely says is not for us to know.