Where can I find the scripture that address the issue of not knowing one season from the other in the last days?
Biblically, the “last days” refers to the Christian dispensation — synonymous with the period of Christianity or the Gospel Age. Prophetically, the “last days” pertained to the establishment of the kingdom or church in Jerusalem (Micah 4:1-2).
“And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem” (Isaiah 2:2-3).
Likewise, the prophet Joel foretold of the establishment of the kingdom or church in Jerusalem in the “last days” (Joel 2:28-3:2). The apostle Peter in Acts 2:16-21 quotes the Joel prophecy and applies it to the events of Acts 2 (i.e., the baptism of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles and the establishment of the church). Jesus, preceding his Ascension, sent the apostles to Jerusalem accordingly (Luke 24:47-49; Acts 1:4, 8-12).
Jesus, Scripture says, conducted his ministry in the “last days.” “Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds” (Hebrews 1:2). The “last days” refers to the final of three dispensations of religious history: Patriarchy, Judaism and Christianity.
Rather than the seasons melding into a single indiscernible season, signaling the imminent return of Christ, the Bible teaches that the seasons will continue as they are without interruption. God caused to be recorded after the universal flood of Noah’s day his intention to do just that. “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease” (Genesis 8:22). Our Lord himself indicated the same.
“But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come (Matthew 24:36-42).
Just as in the days of Noah preceding the flood, the second coming of Christ will come suddenly and unexpectedly. A change of seasons will not give away the imminent return of Christ at time’s end.
