The End Times -- is it for us to know when?

An interesting point was brought up in Sunday School today, if we knew exactly when Jesus was coming back, what would we do? Would we take that as permission to act however we wanted until 5 minutes before and then repent our ways and suddenly become Christian? Or would we act Christian-like from now until the very end? I would hope that I would act Christian-like until the end, but there's no way for me to say exactly what would happen.

The thought that we will never know exactly when Jesus is coming scares me, but I think that God lets it be that way so that we cannot act however we want up until 5 minutes before Jesus comes again. I think we can recognize some of the things that are happening in the world today and try to correlate them to happenings in Revelation, but it does not necessarily mean that is what God intended when he allowed such events to happen. I don't think anyone actually knows when Jesus will return, that is for God to decide and to keep silent from us here on Earth. The people who claim to know exactly when, I don't give them much attention because if they really did know, I would not have been born and we would not be in the year 2011 right now.

Blessings in Christ,