Is the Second Coming a contingent event, or is its day and hour fixed?
Robert Sungenis answers no: the Second Coming is not contingent, and its day and hour are fixed and known to God. He argues that because it happens only once there cannot be several possible days on which Christ could return, and that while surrounding events may be contingent, the day and hour of the return are not.
A viewer asks whether the Second Coming is a contingent event or whether its day and hour are set and fixed.
Answer
No, it is not contingent; there is one day and one hour, God knows it, and it will not change. Think about it logically: since it happens only once, there cannot be several possible days and hours on which Christ could return; there can be only one coming, so there is nothing contingent about it. Scripture speaks of the day and the hour as a single, solitary event of which there is no other, so it makes no contingencies. There may be other events surrounding it that are contingent, but not the day and the hour of his return.