No one Knows --Mark 13

I always wondered why Jesus talked about how His return could come at any time, and you get the feeling that it is coming really soon. In Mark 13 Jesus is prophecying about all the thing that are going to happen, and it sounds like it was about to happen. But then in verse 32 it says "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

I guess as Jesus did not even know when he would return at that point, I wonder if he thought it would be sooner (less than 2000 years), but at least he wanted to make sure they were ready.

The phrase that relates to the Gospel in this chapter is "The gospel must first be preached to all nations." The nature of the gospel is to go out into all the world, and reading this literally, until that happens the end will not come.