Why no one knows...

Matthew 24:36-51 “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left. Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed,’ and begins to beat his fellow servants and eats and drinks with drunkards, the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. After Jesus' "matter-of-fact" statement about the universal ignorance of the time of His return, he tells us why God has done this but introducing the reast of His comments with this word "for". We have seen before what happens when God says He is sending judgment: people continue to carry on as if He does not exist. They will push the limit, until the door is ready to close, and hope they are not late. That is not the perspective we are to have at all. We are to live today and every day as if He may return now. We are to be ready and faithful. If we do not believe that, then we will live every day selfishly, squandering His blessings, ignoring those around us in darkness, acting as if God, His Heaven, and everything having to do with eternity is not a reality. Such a life ends in eternal death.