The Bible never said no one knows the day or the hour
Matthew 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
The Father knows the day and the hour.
Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
So the very same book that tells us that God the Father does nothing without revealing the secrets to His prophets tells us He knows the day and the hour as well.
So then the big question becomes who are these prophets that I can trust to tell me what God has revealed? That is the beauty of the last few years, so many people have been lying that it is very easy to eliminate them from the list of people we should trust. What everyone should have been doing for the last four years is seriously looking for someone to trust. That means you need to test the spirits. No one speaking in the Holy Spirit says Jesus is accursed and the demons and fallen angels cannot say Jesus is blessed. Even the demons believe in God, that is not an adequate test. But they do not say that the blood of Jesus is precious. That would be to say that Jesus has come in the flesh. They also are not permitted to announce the coming of Jesus or to proclaim that Jesus Christ is Lord of all.
Those are your basic tests.
But then if they pass those tests what is the fruit of their ministry and of their lives. We can eliminate so many more by their scandalous living. This does not mean they can't be saved or repent, simply means I am crossing them off my list of who to listen to.
But now we get to the really hard discernment, discerning between right and almost right. We are told that if everyone is speaking well of them not to trust them. I have a rule, if millions of people listen to them I ignore them. My reasoning is simple, if they do reveal something from the word so many others will hear of it and learn it and share it that I won't miss it. I also know that false prophets make merchandise of you so I keep those who have monetized their ministry at arms length. Again, not proof that they are false prophets, Paul said you don't muzzle the ox that treads out the corn, but the Bible also said "freely you have received, freely give". I keep those who sell their books at arms length. Once again the reasoning is simple. If something in one of those books is a revelation from God a million people will read it and so it will get disseminated to the rest of us.
No, what I am looking for is this:
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
I am looking for those who are treated like this. Everyone has seen this behavior, they call people deplorable garbage, racists, white supremacists, etc. You have to go and examine that for yourself, is it true? Four years ago they were saying this about Dana Coverstone so I listened to his dreams (offered free of charge) and I also listened to those who called him a false prophet because I need to know if the accusation is false. I determined it was. Though to be fair I also determined that he was human and very likely made a mistake or two. But when I went back and listened to them recently they seemed to be a very good description of things that have happened. He received withering attack.
But there is another who also receives withering attack and that is Vicky Goforth Parnell. Some of her dreams are totally bizarre, so I will share how I came to feel I could trust she was speaking from God.
In one dream she mispronounced a simple scientific term, I think the word was Stratosphere, but what was clear was that she was unfamiliar with this word. But then she also described an atmospheric process I had never heard of before. I graduated from an elite university with a degree in Geology and have 75 post graduate hours in Geology, a master's degree, and have taught the subject for many years and yet I had never heard of this process. So I investigated and sure enough it was real. If you listen to her she does not come across as someone who is college educated, I think her background is as a seamstress, and so that thoroughly impressed me. In another dream she described one of the most complicated and mysterious processes in the earth in a way that was elegantly simple, meaningful and yet accurate. It seemed to me the Lord was taking this process and making it so simple even someone with an elementary education could understand. I don't believe anyone had ever described it this way so she couldn't have googled this. Then in a third dream she used a term that I always used when teaching but in a way I had never considered, yet it was so brilliant it was poetic. At this point I realized the Lord was showing off, He was demonstrating how his genius is really way beyond the rest of us because this is His creation. But then I talked to others. One brother who has been involved with prophecy for forty years was also convinced she was hearing from the Lord but for a completely different reason. He also mentioned some of his contacts in military intelligence and they also were stunned by what she knew and was saying. As a result I concluded that the reason many of her dreams seem very bizarre and amazing is because she is revealing things that others can't believe she knows. `If you come to the Lord with a seeking heart genuinely wanting to know the truth He will speak to you through His prophets so that you can know they are legit. She also has received withering attack but when I investigated it that was not over any of her dreams and visions but rather over their interpretation of them. Their interpretation was false and so they conclude she was false rather than condemning their own interpretation.
So please know,
1 Thessalonians 2:4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
God is trying our hearts. Are you faithful? Will you stand strong in persecution? Are you looking to know if this person is speaking for God or are you simply looking for anything that you can use to say they aren't? How many times does Hebrews warn us about hardening our hearts? I noticed that many of those with the accusations and slander had envying and strife in their hearts.
I was reminded of Larry Bird when Michael Jordan scored a whole lot of points on them in the playoffs. He said that for those of us who play this game the things that MJ did were very impressive. That is how I feel about her. I don't envy her, I understand that what she is doing will bring intense persecution on her, I am simply very impressed and thankful. Anyone can teach the same old same old, it is safe. The things she speaks, they are on the edge, on the front lines, and astounding.
She has also said a few things about Christian doctrines that also utterly amazed me. I remember once she said there was no Bible verse that said something I was sure the Bible did say. So I investigated and was stunned to see that she was right.