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Time!
We have discussed ‘Time’: it has always existed! But a measurement of time was and is only made possible by consistent loci. I am floored by the fact that we ‘measure’ ‘Time’ by a 🌟 STAR – The Sun!
The measurement of time began with the invention of sundials in ancient Egypt some time prior to 1500 B.C. However, the time the Egyptians measured was not the same as the time today’s clocks measure. For the Egyptians, and indeed for a further three millennia, the basic unit of time was the period of daylight. The Egyptians broke the period from sunrise to sunset into twelve equal parts, giving us the forerunner of today’s hours. As a result, the Egyptian hour was not a constant length of time, as is the case today; rather, as one-twelfth of the daylight period, it varied with length of the day, and hence with the seasons. It also varied from place to place on the surface of the Earth. And of course, time as a measurable concept effectively ceased during the hours of darkness.
Have you ever truly considered ‘Time’? Not as the now or then, but in depth! EVERYTHING depends on ‘Time.’ In discussing ‘Time,’ so very much comes to mind!
In the Old Testament, time is viewed as prophetic and looks forward to the kingdom of heaven being restored by the coming of the Messiah (kingdom coming). In the New Testament, time is viewed as apocalyptic (kingdom initiated by Jesus, but not fully realized until His Parousia at the eschaton—the end of all things).
Solomon, son of king David was blessed with knowledge after a dream where he was asked what he desired. Essentially he said in his ‘dream,’ to rule as my father did PERIOD
The theme of Solomon’s wisdom
Wisdom encompasses the qualities of experience, knowledge, and good judgment. The Old Testament book of Proverbs, which sometimes invokes a woMan as the personification of Wisdom, is a collection of aphorisms and moral teachings. Along with other biblical passages, it teaches, “The fear of The LORD is the beginning of wisdom! In the dream, God says to Solomon, “Ask what I should give you” (v. 5), and Solomon, modestly, requests “an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil” (v. 9). Obviously this is meant to portray Solomon as a wise and just ruler, attuned to The will of God. While this is undoubtedly true, the tragic end of Solomon’s story has raised questions even about his early reign:
- Is Solomon’s modest claim of innocence (not youth, he was at least twenty by this time), “I am only a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in” (v. 7), entirely apt considering the cold-blooded elimination of his political rivals (2:13-46)?
- Is God’s approval of Solomon’s refusal to ask for the life of his enemies (3:11) somewhat ironic? Solomon certainly didn’t ask permission to kill them on his way up; besides, who remains?
The closing verse in which Solomon responds in religiously appropriate ways conveys the impression that the book of Kings sees Solomon as a wise and just ruler, blessed by God. The careful reader will remember that the seeds of the king’s destruction have already been sown in God’s gift of what Solomon did not ask for: his wealth and honor which attracted the foreign marriages that ultimately led him astray (v. 13).
King Solomon wrote the book of Ecclisiastes.
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:
A ‘time’ to be born and a ‘time’ to die, a ‘time’ to plant and a time to uproot,
A ‘time’ to kill and a ‘time’ to heal, a ‘time’ to tear down and a ‘time’ to build,
A ‘time’ to weep and a ‘time’ to laugh, a ‘time’ to mourn and a ‘time’ to dance,
A ‘time’ to scatter stones and a ‘time’ to gather them, a ‘time’ to embrace and a ‘time’ to refrain from embracing,
A ‘time’ to search and a ‘time’ to give up, a ‘time’ to keep and a ‘time’ to throw away,
A ‘time’ to tear and a ‘time’ to mend, a ‘time’ to be silent and a ‘time’ to speak,
A ‘time’ to love and a ‘time’ to hate, a ‘time’ for war and a ‘time’ for peace.
We are born of Love, we utilized the term ‘love’ above; for in ALL our ways Love leads, guides, surrounds/encompasses us; Amen!
To circle around to our introduction; just what is ‘time’? It is weird, I was involved in a severe motor vehicle accident with head trauma. I realize now a decade later that who we are is exactly who, we will always be. Yes! There may be breaks in accessing ‘memories’ but they are exactly who we are!
What is your spirit according to the Bible?
It refers to the part of Man that connects and communicates with God. Our spirit differs from our soul because our spirit is always pointed toward and exists exclusively for God, whereas our soul can be self-centered.
Then The LORD God formed the Man of dust from the ground and Breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the Man became a living creature.
And we pray:
May The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of The Holy Spirit, you may abound in hope. For The Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. Father LORD, Your Essence Knows us keenly; more indepth than we ourselves. LORD, place in my heart a new spirit to worship and serve You always, Amen.
https://www.openbible.info/topics/my_spirit
Born in Harlem Hospital in my Dad’s Residency training; I can remember sole occurrences. These all were brought to my spirit whilst in the coma. ‘Time’ is essentially a construct here on Earth… I look in The Word and understand more clearly how it applies. There is the physical and there is the spiritual. The two are in constant connection:
https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Jesus-Casting-Out-Demons
Once again, I am brought to explore the relativity of ‘time’ – the physical and the spitual.
Something is irking my spirit!
Abraham, Jacob/Israel, Joseph…To name a few! Abraham and Sarah in their 90’s had no children! We can go through the blessings of Abraham:
The blessing of Abraham is the gracious Heavenly gift that Abraham received as part of God’s plan to create a new nation on Earth. The blessing of Abraham is also sometimes misused in prosperity theology to claim that believers today can be just as rich and successful as Abraham was.
First, we’ll take a look at the historical context of Abraham’s blessing. God’s blessing to Abraham is recorded in Genesis 12:1–3: “The Lord had said to Abram, ‘Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
“‘I will make you into a great nation,
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.’”
Here, Abraham is blessed, and that blessing includes the promise that he will have a great name (reputation) and that he would become a great nation (have many descendants). God will bless those who bless him; furthermore, Abraham will be a blessing. Through Abraham all nations on earth will be blessed. The blessing of Abraham finds its ultimate fulfillment in Jesus Christ, the “Seed” of Abraham (Galatians 3:16) and the Redeemer of the world.
The rest of the Bible records how these promises were fulfilled and the blessing of Abraham advanced. In Genesis we see Abraham gaining a great reputation, and we see how his descendants multiplied, even though, at the time the promise was made, he had no hope of ever having any children. By Exodus 1, the children of Abraham, the Israelites, are a great people, and the rest of Exodus through Joshua records how the people became a nation with their own land and law. The books of Judges and 1 and 2 Samuel address the leadership of the nation as a king, and how the dynasty of David was established. However, things began to unravel, and the people broke the law of God and followed other gods. Frequently, the kings did not reign as God’s loyal representatives but often followed their own desires. Prophets who spoke for God warned the nation that judgment was coming and that they were in danger of losing their land. The same prophets also began to hint at other, greater things such as an ideal Davidic ruler who would rule not only Israel but the whole world—and Gentiles would somehow be part of this kingdom (see Isaiah 9).
When Jesus came on the scene, all of the pieces started to fit into place. Jesus is the Davidic Messiah who will not only rule over Israel but over the whole world (Revelation 19:15). Anyone, including Gentiles, who comes to Him in repentance and faith is made part of His kingdom, while those Jews who reject Him will be left out. Paul was the foremost apostle responsible for taking the good news (the gospel) to the Gentiles.
In Galatians, Paul explains the importance of grace as opposed to the keeping of the law. He also points out that in Genesis 15:6 Abraham was justified by faith. Obviously, this was before any law had been given—430 years before, according to Galatians 3:17. In verse 7 Paul explains that it is those who have the kind of faith that Abraham had that are truly children of Abraham, even if they are Gentiles. This is the fulfillment of the blessing of Abraham and God’s promise that through Abraham all peoples (Gentiles) would be blessed.
The blessing of Abraham was a benefit to Abraham himself. In terms of the ancient world, he was a success: he was well-respected, he was healthy, and he had many descendants. However, the blessing Abraham received from God went far beyond those immediate, personal blessings. Through Abraham the whole world was blessed because Jesus is a descendant of Abraham. Because of Jesus any person, Jew or Gentile, can be forgiven and be in His kingdom. In Christ, we receive the spiritual blessing of justification, just as Abraham did: “If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise” (Galatians 3:29).
There are some teachers in the Word of Faith movement who claim the blessing of Abraham for themselves, in all of its detail. Since we are “Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise” (Galatians 3:29), then we can have all that Abraham had—or so the teaching goes. Christ redeemed us from more than just sin and the law; He redeemed us from “poverty” and “sickness,” because those things are supposedly included in the blessing of Abraham.
Some Word of Faith teachers see a three-fold blessing of Abraham available to Christians today: a material, financial blessing; a physical blessing; and a spiritual blessing. Others see a seven-fold blessing of Abraham: 1) I will make you into a great nation, 2) I will bless you, 3) I will make your name great, 4) you will be a blessing, 5) I will bless those who bless you, 6) whoever curses you I will curse, and 7) all peoples on earth will be blessed through you. These promises to Abraham are applied directly to the Christian today. The result is protection, blessing (physical and material), fame and recognition, etc.
Those who twist Scripture and “decree and declare” the blessing of Abraham over themselves believe that 1) God will make me and my family into some type of “great nation”; 2) God will bless me and my family; 3) God will make my name great; 4) My family and I will be a blessing; 5) God will bless those who bless me; 6) whoever curses me God will curse; and 7) everyone on earth will be blessed through me and my family.
The problem with claiming the blessing of Abraham for ourselves, expecting physical, earthly blessings, is that the blessing was given to Abraham, a specific individual in history, for a specific reason. We cannot simply insert ourselves into a biblical text. It’s more than bad hermeneutics; it leads to serious error.
The theme of Galatians 3 is justification by faith. Paul never teaches that a Christian has a “right” to prosperity and ease: “So also Abraham ‘believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.’ Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham. Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: ‘All nations will be blessed through you.’ So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith” (verses 6–9, emphasis added). The faith of Abraham led to his justification, and that is the blessing of Abraham that we share today. As people of faith, we are justified in Christ.
Once again we learn/can see that ‘Time’ does NOT affect God. More pointedly, our exact number of hours here on Earth are known to God before we take our first breath!
Every day of our lives is numbered, a fact we often forget as we go through our daily routines. But God has numbered our days, from before we were even born until the day we die. As believers, we are called to seek God’s guidance and care in all things, knowing that He has already written the days of our lives in His book.
we will explore various biblical verses that speak of the numbering of our days and God’s provision for us, including how we should seek His will in all aspects of our lives. Ultimately, we can trust that our superpower is in God’s hands, and that when our number is called, we will be carried by angels into the presence of our Savior.
- Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever Thou hadst formed the Earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God. (Psalm 90:1-2)
- And The LORD God formed Man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul. (Genesis 2:7)
- Is there not an appointed time to Man upon Earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? (Job 7:1)
- In Whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all Mankind. (Job 12:10)
- Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with Thee, Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; (Job 14:5)
- If a Man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. (Job 14:14)
- The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of The Almighty hath given me life. (Job 33:4)
- LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am. (Psalm 39:4)
- My times are in Thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. (Psalm 31:15)
- Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in Thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. (Psalm 139:16)
- A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; (Ecclesiastes 3:2)
- And all the inhabitants of the Earth are reputed as nothing: and He doeth according to His will in the army of Heaven, and among the inhabitants of the Earth: and none can stay His hand, or say unto Him, What doest Thou? (Daniel 4:35)
- I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: Thy years are throughout all generations. (Psalm 102:24)
- For in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring. (Acts 17:28)
- Precious in The sight of The LORD is the death of His saints. (Psalm 116:15)
We could go on, I simply want to develop a hunger for The Word.
And once again we pray (incessant prayer is our sole soul focus!)
Father, I come before Your Presence; Hallelujah for Your Spirit within me. Use me LORD I pray in Jesus’ Name. Your will be done in my life Father, Amen.