'No one knows the day or the hour?'

It's a matter of IN-TER-PRE-TA-TION, and above all READING SKILLS...what most of the Christians lack of!

First, Jesus Christ uses the PRESENT tense when speaking to the disciples. The people of the future, those of the end times, could know, especially Christ himself since the Book of Revelation, HIS HIGHLY DETAILED PROPHECY, only book he asked to be written AFTER his ascension, chronologically comes AFTER the Gospels where the 'no one knows' is stated when Christ didn't resurrect nor ascend yet.

Second, what is not known is the DAY or HOUR of the rapture of EACH of the chosen ones...in a 7 years long period (harvest shmita law), corresponding to 'ABOUT half an hour', provided that an 'Hour' of God is 1,000 years / 60 = 16,66 years, that is a 'Day' of God divided by the basis of time division in Sumer (60) where the Hebrews are from. When reading carefully the related passage in Matthew 24, you see that the return of Christ is among the conditions to be fulfilled before 'what is near' has an unknown DAY or HOUR, that is the rapture of EACH of the chosen ones.

Third, almost everyone will know the 'official' return of Christ when he will defeat Satan at the end of his reign...which is formally and timely documented with the 1,260 days of the Two Witnesses' ministry followed by the 42 months / 1,290 days antichrist's / AC's reign.

Fourth, the 'official' Day of the Lord those of the rapture, is preceded by 'one of the Days of the Lord' in Luke 17:22-24, 7 years long each, given that the first 'Day of the Lord' is divided in two periods of about 3.5 years each (Two Witnesses' ministry + AC's reign). If the 'Day' of God is 1,000 years long, why would the 'Day' of the Lord not be 7 years long, provided that 144 x 7 years = 1,008 years, minus 7 years (Christ is one of the 144 kings sitting on his throne in the New Jerusalem), i.e. 1,001 years, the 'Day' of God (God's rest at the 7th day)?

Fifth, the lightning in the East seen in the West precisely speaks about these two Days of the Lord, given that East is the beginning (of the rapture) and West is the end (time axis), like the North is heaven and the South is earth (space axis), as per the references used by Ezekiel in EZE 1.

In other words, the end times' First Coming of Christ in the EAST (first Day of the Lord) with the Two Witnesses will be 'seen' in the WEST (Day of the Lord) - it will look like the first, i.e. with ET spaceships - at the end times' Second Coming for the rapture of the Great Multitude.

So, THE COMING DAYS ARE THE EAST.