The Watcher's Guide

Is the church supposed to be willfully ignorant about the time we currently live? How do we keep Jesus' command to watch? There are a multitude of scriptures, signs, and things to be watching for that all have scriptural support, yet the common view is that no one is supposed to date-set, for no one knows the day or hour. That reference is always referring to the Second Coming, at least seven years after the rapture of the church. So what is the truth and how much was really revealed to Joh...