I would not bet on that. I tend to walk alone in my beliefs as they are old school in many things. I am sure there are some here who will have something to say about it as I got flack early one when Pastor JD first brought it up in saying something about the UN fiasco that just finished up with strong implication that it would turn out to be the confirming of the covenant.
I will only add the word (yet) to your statement. Not everyone is awake (yet). I don’t know why I am a joy killer. I still have my joy and my blessed hope. If I mock, it is only those that have latched on to emotion over common sense. Common sense tells me that for well over a decade now people have been coming out with this time or that, this day or that as being their idea of the best time of the rapture. Well last time I looked God does not work on our schedule for things. People often talk about taking scripture literally. I guess I am taking Jesus at his words, and I am a man so I can’t know the hour or the day. Yeah I see the signs, they are every where and coming at us like the telephone poles in the old Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airman song Hot Rod Lincoln. Yep they look like picket fence. And still I also take the words from Jesus where He says when you see all these things come to pass the end is still not yet.
So if people want to call me names that is fine with me. They are nothing compared to what I was called by the DI’s in boot camp. If they want to say I am a kill joy fine. I haven’t killed my own joy at all. I still get to wonder at the marvel of God’s creation on a daily basis. I see a young mother with a little child walking down the street and I still smile. I hold the door for a woman and she is surprised and thanks me I still smile. I see a baby rabbit in the yard and I still smile. I have my joy in the work of the Lord.
If I revisit Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen . I still have faith in Jesus that He will fulfill His word and come for the church so my faith is the substance of my hope and that of a coming rapture. So my hope has substance. As for a mocker, only to things that are irrational and unfounded and date setting as I have seen it happen now for way to long is one such thing. Yet I don’t actually mock till now because it has gotten to be an old and tired joke that non believers use against us but we were told they would,
2 Peter 3:3-9 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Yeah there are scoffers in the world and they are now starting to say such things and that because so many claims have gone out about when people in the church have had a lot of hype about this time or that,. So I tend to go with
1 Peter 5:6-10 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you .
I know a little bit about being sober as I have had to do Ville Duty where I was to go with the MPs on Pay Day nights out into town to calm down the rebel rousers whose passions go wild under the influence of strong drink. I get it about peoples passions getting the better of them. It is as it always has been. Yet even in my times of extreme enebriation where I should not have lived as it took me three days to sober up my passions were also inflamed beyond reason. But after that last one with busted and cracked teeth, bloodied face from doing a board like face plant and I was coverd in blood when I came to finally I sobered up and put drink aside. Still life went on. Doesn’t mean I don’t warn young men against the problems of drinking they don’t often think about before hand, I do. Still some of them do it and face the consequences of their actions.
So to it happens when passions of so called high watch times come and go. People get a little excited and with each confirmation they get of others adding to it with some kind of confirmation their passions grow to a fever pitch until the day and time pass and they wake up one morning and realize they are still here. Then it is time to go around as one of the sober and pick up the pieces.
Yes Jesus will return for His church. Of that there is no doubt. It is a promise of the Lord and as the first quote says the Lord is NOT SLACK in His promises. He said it, that settles it, it will come to pass. He also said “no man knows the day or hour.” I have to wonder how sad it makes Jesus when we whip ourselves up in a frenzy over things that are way above our pay grade. Not like we are going to change anything. Actually I often wonder if Jesus is in Heaven thinking, "Why don’t they just shut up so I can come. But no they have to keep doing the same old thing over and over so I have to wait till that most inopportune time in their eyes to sneak in and snatch them up. Maybe we are doing more harm to ourselves and others by constantly enraging our passions. Maybe time to step back and just watch the glory of the Lord rather than trying to help Him achieve it. Just a thought.
Keeping my eyes on Jesus! 
