The One Thing the Son Did Not Know
Mark 13:32
The One Thing the Son Did Not Know
A day kept back from the Son and held by the Father alone
A God who does not know the day is no God --- the Son did not know it; the Father did.
--- The Standing Stone ---
Behind “LORD” in your Bible lies a hidden name --- in the Hebrew it is Yahuah Psalm 83:18**; Yahuah is the Father** Isaiah 63:16**; Yahuah is the only God, beside Him there is no other** Isaiah 45:5**; therefore Yahuah the Father is the only true God, leaving no room for a second or third person** 1 Corinthians 8:6**.**
1 --- The Verse, and How It Is Used
Near the end of His ministry, Yahushua told His taught ones about the last days. Then He said one of the plainest sentences in all of Scripture.
Mark 13:32
But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Read it slowly. There is a day no one knows. Men do not know it. The angels in heaven do not know it. Even the Son does not know it. Only the Father knows it.
This verse is hard for those who teach that the Father and the Son are one and the same God. To be God is to know all things. A God who does not know something is not God. So how can the Son be that God if He does not know the day?
And notice where Yahushua drew the line. He did not say, “part of Me knows and part of Me does not.” He set the Son on one side and the Father on the other. The Son does not know. The Father does.
2 --- The “Two Natures” Escape
Those who defend the doctrine have one main answer. They say Yahushua did not know the day in His human nature, but knew it all along in His divine nature.
It sounds clever. It does not hold. There are three reasons why.
First, the verse never says it. It says “neither the Son.” It does not say “neither the human nature of the Son.” That second idea has to be carried in from the outside. It is not in the words Yahushua spoke.
Second, knowing belongs to the one who knows --- to the Son Himself --- not to a “nature.” So which was it? If the Son truly knew the day, then the verse is simply false --- for He did know. But if the Son truly did not know, then He is not the all-knowing God. You cannot break the one Yahushua into a mind that secretly knew and a mind that only pretended not to. Do that, and you have split Him in two --- the very error their own councils condemned.
Third, if the eternal Son set His knowing aside to walk the earth, then God changed. But Yahuah does not change Malachi 3:6. A God who can stop being all-knowing was never all-knowing to begin with.
3 --- “But Doesn’t He Know All Things?”
Someone will answer back with the verses where Yahushua knows men’s hearts. Peter says, “Lord, thou knowest all things” John 21:17. The disciples say, “now are we sure that thou knowest all things” John 16:30. Let them bring it. It only turns in the hand.
The word for “know” in those verses is the very same Greek word Yahushua used here in Mark.
οἶδα
oida (Strong’s G1492)
To know, to perceive, to understand --- the plain verb of knowing.
So it cannot mean “the all-knowing God” over in John and something softer here in Mark. It is one word. Either it means “know” in both places --- and then the Son knows much, yet still not the day --- or their proof from John melts away as well. And every bit of His knowing was given Him: “All things are delivered unto me of my Father” Matthew 11:27. This one day the Father kept back --- “which the Father hath put in his own power” Acts 1:7. A Son who receives, and a Father who reserves. No contradiction at all.
4 --- The Ladder, and the One at the Top
Step back and see the shape of what Yahushua said. He built a ladder of knowing, from the bottom up. Not men. Not the angels of heaven. Not even the Son. Only the Father.
See who stands at the top, alone --- the Father. And see where the Son stands: below the Father, among those who have not been given to know this thing. That is exactly how Yahushua always spoke of His Father.
John 14:28
…for my Father is greater than I.
“The Son can do nothing of himself” John 5:19. He is the Sent One, and the One who sends is greater. Even after He rose and ascended in glory, this did not change. The last book of the Bible opens by calling it “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him” Revelation 1:1. The risen Son still receives from God. He is the Son still; the Father is still the Father.
The Father is Yahuah. He alone knows the day. He alone is the Most High. This is not a Son hiding His power behind a curtain. This is a Son telling the truth about His Father.
A God who does not know the day is no God at all. The Son did not know it; the Father alone did. Mark 13:32 names its own one true God --- and it is the Father.