Can Jesus lie?

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Jesus never lied, nor could he. To be untruthful is to be deceitful. The Lord’s own words always agreed with his deeds and with actuality. Truth is shown to be reality, based on God’s revelations. When Jesus was asked concerning his return, he responded to the question with, “No man knows, not the Son but the Father.” Was he speaking the truth? Answer, "Of course he was."

Question: Why didn’t he know? To draw a proper answer to the question, three factors need to be united into one answer: God’s foreknowledge, our hope, and Jesus speaking the truth. When the question was asked, the Jews were under the heavy hand of the Romans and the corrupt Jewish religious leaders.

Now, what if Jesus had been told by the Father the exact day and hour of his return? I am sure the disciples would have asked him many more questions concerning the future. If asked, and he had been given the answer, he would have had to tell them about men like Nero, Diocletian, and Galerius, and how Christians would be threatened, imprisoned, tortured, and put in the Colosseum for sport.  

He would have had to tell them about the future Holy Roman Empire led by the Popes of Rome. He would have had to tell them about their cruelty against believers. How the Roman church would imprison tens of thousands, then torture and murder them. He would have had to reveal to them if asked about their methods of torture and murder. About how thousands would be beheaded, suffer the smashing of bones, boiling in water, dragging, being skinned alive, starvation, and about those who would be wrapped in bloody animal skins and fed to wild dogs.

And after this, would come the persecution and murder of Christians by the nations of Islam. About Nazi Germany, the holocaust.

Now let’s bring this all to a conclusion. If Jesus had been told of the day and hour of his return, and if then asked, he would never have lied. He would have told them about all the above future tyrants and what their future generation of Christians would suffer. And by the way, he would have to tell them, “It’s going to be another 2000 years before I return.”

If these things had been told the disciples on the Mt. of Olives, and they had written in their gospels of these things, what would have happened to the church? The church would have died before it was born. The Father knew this, which is most likely why he hid this even from his beloved Son.  
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