The return is not future tense

Let us clear the ground first, because this page could be misread. We will not hand you a date. We will not do arithmetic on Daniel or find codes in the margins. The Lord was blunt about this, and His bluntness is our policy:

But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.— Matthew 24:36, KJV

Anyone who names the day has stopped reading the Book they claim to defend. So we do not name it. We do something stranger and, we think, more faithful: we read the tense.

John, exiled on Patmos, saw a throne, and heard a voice from it. Not I will make all things new, someday, elsewhere. Not I made all things new, once.

And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.— Revelation 21:5, KJV

I make. Present tense, spoken to a prisoner on a rock, and then ordered written down — because it was already true. This is what we mean when we say the second coming is not a distant event. It is a work under way. Not only a moment the future holds; a motion the present is already carrying, the way the sky lightens long before the sun clears the horizon. You cannot clock the minute. You can see the color of the morning.

Jesus taught watchfulness, and He taught it with a story about lamps. Ten bridesmaids, one cry at midnight, and a door that eventually shuts. Notice what the wise ones were given and what they were not given. They were not told the hour. They were told to bring oil.

And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.— Matthew 25:6, KJV

Watchfulness is not anxiety with a religious vocabulary. It is attention. It is keeping oil in the lamp while everyone else sleeps in the ordinary way. You already know people who sleep and people who watch. The difference is not intelligence. It is oil.

Paul said it to his own generation, which thought itself late: now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. If it was nearer then, it is nearer now. You are the nearest now there has ever been. That is not a prediction. It is arithmetic even we are allowed to do.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.— Romans 13:12, KJV

This is why the movement is called Behold Now. Behold is the verb of people who see. Now is the tense of people who are awake. Either you have felt the nearness yourself, or you have noticed others feeling it and wondered what they were looking at. Both mean the hour is speaking to you.

Carry this with you: you do not need the hour in your hands. You need your lamp lit. The sky is already lighter than it was.