puricarexfiles: GOD'S TIME - Pearl of Wisdom - The great time chapter of the Bible is Ecclesiastes 3. In this chapter the word time occurs on 28 occasions in 14 pairs of polar opposites divided into seven groups. Seven, the number of completeness, suggests that these contrasting pairs cover almost every conceivable experience of man, beginning with birth and ending with death.

Saturday, February 25, 2017

GOD'S TIME - Pearl of Wisdom - The great time chapter of the Bible is Ecclesiastes 3. In this chapter the word time occurs on 28 occasions in 14 pairs of polar opposites divided into seven groups. Seven, the number of completeness, suggests that these contrasting pairs cover almost every conceivable experience of man, beginning with birth and ending with death.

God's Time

By Woodrow Kroll

Part 1 - God's Time - Pearl of Wisdom

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Click here for Part 2 – God's Time - Season and time, Polar Opposites

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Click here for Part 3 - God's Time - All things beautiful

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Click here for Part 4 - God's Time - Going according to plan

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Part 1 - Pearl of Wisdom

"To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven." Ecclesiastes 3:1

Our lives revolve around time. If I asked you what time it is, I have a pretty good idea what you'd do.

You'd glance at your watch, check the time and respond appropriately. If you were enjoying what you were doing at the moment, you might exclaim, "My, how time flies!"

If you weren't especially happy about what you were doing, you'd probably groan, "Is it only _____?"

Time has been the theme of ballads like "As Time Goes By," and a common excuse for many failures is, "I didn't have time."

Most of us check our watch several times a day--or several times an hour.

Sometimes we do it more often than we should, like when we're in church. All of this only goes to show how involved we are with time.

But actually, time, as we know it, is a very recent phenomenon.

Through the persistence of Charles Dodd, a schoolteacher, and William Allen, a railroad engineer, time was finally standardized in the United States on November 10, 1883.

It was only after American railroads accepted Dodd and Allen's idea of four time zones across the United States that trains could schedule their arrivals and departures with any degree of consistency.

Before that, every community decided what time it was on their own. It took another year for a meeting of 26 nations to determine the 24-hour worldwide time zones that we use today.

Nor have we always had seven days in our week. Back in 1792 the French tried a ten-day week with ten hours in a day, 100 minutes in an hour and 100 seconds in a minute. But it didn't work.

Undaunted, the Russians tried a five-day week in 1929 and even named the days of the week after colors. But nobody paid any attention, so the Russians switched to a six-day week in 1932.

Finally they abandoned the whole idea and returned to the standard seven-day week.

Although the way we describe time has not been around all that long, God has been working with time since the beginning of creation.

In fact, He's the originator of time. The first mention of time is in Genesis 1:5: "So the evening and the morning were the first day."

But the great time chapter of the Bible is Ecclesiastes 3. In this chapter the word time occurs on 28 occasions in 14 pairs of polar opposites divided into seven groups.

Seven, the number of completeness, suggests that these contrasting pairs cover almost every conceivable experience of man, beginning with birth and ending with death.