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Synopsis
Appropriate or appointed periods of time which are part of the variety and development of human life and experience and which influence human affairs.
The times and seasons for individuals and nations are set by God, who works all things together towards the final fulfilment of his purposes.
The seasons of life are appointed by God
The seasons of individual lives
Ec 3:1–8; Ps 31:15
Ecclesiastes 3:1–8 (NIV) — 1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: 2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, 3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, 4 a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, 5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, 6 a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, 7 a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, 8 a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
Psalm 31:15 (NIV) — 15 My times are in your hands; deliver me from the hands of my enemies, from those who pursue me.
See also Job 14:5; Ps 139:16; Ec 3:11; Ro 8:28; Jas 4:13–15
Job 14:5 (NIV) — 5 A person’s days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.
Psalm 139:16 (NIV) — 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NIV) — 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time.
He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
Romans 8:28 (NIV) — 28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
James 4:13–15 (NIV) — 13 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”
14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow.
What is your life?
You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
The seasons of nations and the world
Da 2:21; Ac 17:26
Daniel 2:21 (NIV) — 21 He changes times and seasons; he deposes kings and raises up others.
He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.
Acts 17:26 (NIV) — 26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.
See also Da 4:17; Da 7:25; Ac 1:7
Daniel 4:17 (NIV) — 17 “ ‘The decision is announced by messengers, the holy ones declare the verdict, so that the living may know that the Most High is sovereign over all kingdoms on earth and gives them to anyone he wishes and sets over them the lowliest of people.’
Daniel 7:25 (NIV) — 25 He will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws.
The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time, times and half a time.
Acts 1:7 (NIV) — 7 He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.
A time to die
The transience of human life
Ps 103:15–16
Psalm 103:15–16 (NIV) — 15 The life of mortals is like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field; 16 the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.
See also Job 7:6–8; Job 14:1–2; Ps 37:2; Ps 102:11; Ec 6:12
Job 7:6–8 (NIV) — 6 “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and they come to an end without hope.
7 Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see happiness again.
8 The eye that now sees me will see me no longer; you will look for me, but I will be no more.
Job 14:1–2 (NIV) — 1 “Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble. 2 They spring up like flowers and wither away; like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.
Psalm 37:2 (NIV) — 2 for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away.
Psalm 102:11 (NIV) — 11 My days are like the evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
Ecclesiastes 6:12 (NIV) — 12 For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days they pass through like a shadow?
Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?
Death comes at its appointed time
Job 5:26
Job 5:26 (NIV) — 26 You will come to the grave in full vigor, like sheaves gathered in season.
See also Ge 47:29; 1 Ki 2:1; Lk 12:20
Genesis 47:29 (NIV) — 29 When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called for his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise that you will show me kindness and faithfulness.
Do not bury me in Egypt,
1 Kings 2:1 (NIV) — 1 When the time drew near for David to die, he gave a charge to Solomon his son.
Luke 12:20 (NIV) — 20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool!
This very night your life will be demanded from you.
Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
Times of sadness and joy
A time to mourn
Ge 27:41; Ge 37:34; Ge 50:3–4; Dt 34:8; Je 4:28
Genesis 27:41 (NIV) — 41 Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him.
He said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
Genesis 37:34 (NIV) — 34 Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and mourned for his son many days.
Genesis 50:3–4 (NIV) — 3 taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming.
And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
4 When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court, “If I have found favor in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh for me.
Tell him,
Deuteronomy 34:8 (NIV) — 8 The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning was over.
Jeremiah 4:28 (NIV) — 28 Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above grow dark, because I have spoken and will not relent, I have decided and will not turn back.”
A time to rejoice
Jn 16:21–22
John 16:21–22 (NIV) — 21 A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.
22 So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.
See also Dt 28:47; Es 9:22; Is 61:2–3
Deuteronomy 28:47 (NIV) — 47 Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity,
Esther 9:22 (NIV) — 22 as the time when the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month when their sorrow was turned into joy and their mourning into a day of celebration.
He wrote them to observe the days as days of feasting and joy and giving presents of food to one another and gifts to the poor.
Isaiah 61:2–3 (NIV) — 2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, 3 and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.
They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.
A time to speak
Pr 15:23; Pr 25:11; 2 Ti 4:2 Christians are to be always ready to share the gospel.
Proverbs 15:23 (NIV) — 23 A person finds joy in giving an apt reply— and how good is a timely word!
Proverbs 25:11 (NIV) — 11 Like apples of gold in settings of silver is a ruling rightly given.
2 Timothy 4:2 (NIV) — 2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.
Times appointed for the world
The rise and fall of nations
Da 2:37–45; Da 8:19–25; Da 11:2–4; Da 11:24–27; Lk 21:24
Daniel 2:37–45 (NIV) — 37 Your Majesty, you are the king of kings.
The God of heaven has given you dominion and power and might and glory; 38 in your hands he has placed all mankind and the beasts of the field and the birds in the sky.
Wherever they live, he has made you ruler over them all.
You are that head of gold.
39 “After you, another kingdom will arise, inferior to yours.
Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule over the whole earth.
40 Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron—for iron breaks and smashes everything—and as iron breaks things to pieces, so it will crush and break all the others.
41 Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay.
42 As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle.
43 And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.
44 “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people.
It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.
45 This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands—a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces.
“The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future.
The dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.”
Daniel 8:19–25 (NIV) — 19 He said: “I am going to tell you what will happen later in the time of wrath, because the vision concerns the appointed time of the end.
20 The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia.
21 The shaggy goat is the king of Greece, and the large horn between its eyes is the first king.
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