nearer than when we believed
Romans 13:11
13:11 nearer than when we believed. The return of Christ has always been “imminent,” and the earliest believers had been told by Christ to “watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh” (Matthew 25:13). We must not set dates, but rather “occupy till [He] come[s]” (Luke 19:13).