Times

Some may have the impression that God is not very specific about time, that He passively watches time flow past, and is not directly involved in it. He is eternal after all, so we may believe that time has no meaning to Him. However, I believe that God is more specific about time than we will ever be with all of our watches, schedules and calendars. If we were to look at God's appointment calendar, I think we would see that every line of it would be occupied with a specific purpose. We would find that God has ordained, appointed, set a work for every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every week of every group of weeks of every month of every season of every year of every specific grouping of years. He has assigned even a time of rest for a specific day and year. He successfully accomplishes all of the works which He has ordained for those specific measurements of time. It was revealed to King Solomon that there is an appointed time for every purpose under heaven (Eccl. 3:1).
At least one appointed specific time is so secret, which is the day and hour of the Son's return, that not even the Son of God nor the angels know it, only the Father knows it (Mt. 24:36). The beginning, progression and ending of the Great Flood were all appointed for a specific year, month, day (Gen. 8).
In our lives, we have idle time, not designated for any plan or activity. Not so with God. Even during the time when we are oblivious in sleep, for example, He has appointed those hours to call out every star over our heads by name, and wants us to know He is doing it:
"Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things, who brings out their host by number; He calls them all by name, by the greatness of His might and the strength of His power; not one is missing."   Isa. 40:26, also Ps. 147:4
Let's look at some examples of God's appointed times:
Groups of years:
There are many references in scripture to the grouping of seven years, for example, and the events accomplished within or at the end of those seven years. Groups of seven years were appointed in service to attain a desired wife (Gen. 29:30). God commanded that every seventh year His people should let the land rest and lay fallow, so that the poor of the people can eat what is left on that land, and also the beasts of the field (Ex. 23:10-11). At the end of every seven years, there is to be a release from all debts. This specific seventh year is called the Lord's release (Deut. 15:1-2, Jer. 34:14). There is also a specific work to take place, the reading of the Word of God before all of the people, during the Feast of Tabernacles as it occurs during each seventh year of release, to prepare His people for what will lay ahead (Deut. 31:10-13).  There was a specified group of years counted off, appointed, prophesied and then fulfilled for the first coming and death of the Messiah (Dan. 9:26). We can be assured that there is a also a specific time counted off and appointed for the return of our Messiah, Jesus. 
Year:
Isaiah prophesied regarding "the acceptable year of the LORD" (Isa. 61:1-3). Jesus announced that He was specifically fulfilling that promise, and the works of the Lord by the anointing of His Spirit appointed for that year, including preaching the gospel, healing the broken hearted, proclaiming liberty to the captives and the oppressed, and to restore sight to the blind (Lk. 4:18-21).
Season:
Everything is appointed for a specific season (Eccl. 3:1). There is a season of deliverance (Deut. 16:6). There is a season appointed for birth and death (2 Kings 4:16-17, Job 5:26). There is a season appointed to bring rain for a yield (Lev. 26:4, Deut. 4:14). There is a season in which a word is appointed to be spoken (Prov. 15:23, Isa. 50:4). There is a season for fulfillment of prophecy (Lk. 1:20). There is a season for the visitation of angels (Jn. 5:4).
Month:
Every month is set as a new beginning, as a time for reflection, repentance, change. It is signified by the appearance of the new moon in the night sky. Each new moon was to be an observance before the LORD as a Sabbath, and signified by the sounding of the trumpet so that all may know the moment of its appearance (Ps. 81:3). The new moon of a beginning of a specific month also signals the start of the LORD's Feast of Trumpets. The beginning of each month, or new moon, was a call to worship (Isa. 66:23).
Week:
Each week was marked by the end of seven days, the seventh day being a Sabbath. It is a day of rest and holiness (Ex. 20:8-11).  So even rest is appointed specifically at a set time with the LORD. Seven days were appointed for the circling of Jericho to bring down its walls (Heb. 11:30). The prophet of God sat with the captives 7 days waiting for the word of the LORD (Ezek. 3:15). The water was turned to blood for 7 days in Egypt as one of the ten plagues (Ex. 7:24-25).
Day:
There are numerous specific days and groups of days ordained by the LORD for specific purposes, including those found in His appointed feasts (Lev. 23). The LORD appointed specific days for the accomplishment of specific works, as we see in each of the individual  six days of creation in the first chapter of Genesis. God was revealing His working pattern to us, and its designated relationship to specific increments of time. God could have created all in one moment, or without the division of days, but the pattern was set from the beginning that each day in the LORD has its specific purpose and accomplished "good" and "very good" work. It must be that the pattern continues. There are so many appointed single days of works, they are too numerous to mention except for a few: a day of resurrection (Gen. 22:4, Mt. 27:63, Rev. 11:11), days appointed for covenant and circumcision (Gen. 15:18, Gen. 17:23, 26), a day appointed for justice/judgment/vengeance (Isa. 2:12, 13:6, 9, 61:2, Joel 1:15, Jer. 46:10), a day that the LORD's voice is heard, and He is seen (Zeph. 1:14, Ex. 6:28, 19:11), a day appointed for repentance (Isa. 22:12), a day of deliverance (Ex. 12:51, 14:30), a day of atonement that covers sin (Lev. 16:29-30, 23:27), a day when the LORD is a crown of glory and beauty upon His people (Isa. 28:5), a day for healing wounds (Isa. 30:26), a day of salvation, inheritance, and restoration of the earth (Isa. 49:8), and each day is appointed for the renewal of His mercy towards us (Lam. 3:22-24). It was the first day of a week that Mary came to the empty tomb, and the resurrected Jesus appeared to her (Mk. 16:2, 9). It was also a specific day of a week that Jesus appeared to the disciples for the first time after His resurrection (Jn. 20:19).
Hour:
Jesus, especially, identified the hours of God's specific and appointed work: an hour of healing (Mt. 8:13, 15:28), an hour of deliverance from demons (Mt. 17:8, Lk. 7:21). The specific hour for the crucifixion of Christ was appointed (Mk. 15:25), also the day and hour of the return of Christ (Mt. 24:36, 42-44, 50), an hour when the true worshippers are established (Jn. 4:23), an hour when the dead hear the Son's voice and are raised (Jn. 5:25).
We can be sure that the LORD has appointed a work for each day and hour. That would be greatness in itself, but He goes even further in His works. He appoints works for every moment and for time periods of less than a moment: Cities are overthrown in a moment (Lam. 4:6), His anger lasts for a moment (Ps. 30:5) and people are consumed in a moment (Ex. 33:5, Num. 16:21).
His greatest work concerning us is appointed for a specific moment and even less than a moment:
"Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed - in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised...and we shall be changed...then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."  1 Cor. 15:51-54 (excerpt)
We should be aware that the works of the LORD, though declared and prophetically completed before the foundations of the earth, are appointed for every moment, hour, day, week, month, season, year and group of years. The Antichrist, inhabited by the Devil, will desire and seek to change the times (Dan. 7:25), but he will not succeed because the times have been appointed by God. Satan is aware that God has specifically appointed times (Rev. 12:12). If Satan is aware of this truth, shouldn't the people of God also be aware of it? The LORD is indeed greater than time, but He still inhabits every second of time for His will and His plan. He is doing an appointed work even right now, in this moment of time.

Our Father has appointed times.

Genesis 1

My grandchildren and I have begun a Bible study. I think it is the most important thing for them to have a knowledge of scripture. We began our studies in The Beginning, Genesis Chapter 1. I started here because it is the beginning. I also started here because I have recently read opinions that we should not discuss or teach Genesis creation, because it is a stumbling block to belief for most people. However, the beginning chapters of Genesis give us a wonderful spiritual knowledge and foundation. So, I thumbed my nose at the Genesis silencers, and we forged ahead. The kids found it fascinating. They pointed out that the Book title is "The First Book of Moses". I was able to explain to them that as Moses entered God's presence on the mountain, he received this revelation. In fact, he spent so much time in the presence of God, that his face shone with the glory light of God.
The first foundational truth we discussed is that God, as revealed in this chapter, is "Elohim". We find out immediately that God is a plurality from this name. We are introduced to the Word, Jesus, which Elohim spoke in order to create (Jn. 1:1-3), and we meet the Spirit of Elohim, who hovered over the void and deeply dark condition of the earth. The meaning of "hovered" is to fold wings around, to lovingly embrace. The Spirit of Elohim embraced and loved this mass of nothingness with its fathoms of deep darkness into the creative power, the Word, of Elohim.
We discussed that Elohim spoke creation into being, and how we also create and destroy with our words, requiring a large responsibility from each of us. "Death and life is in the power (yad-hand) of the tongue (wedge, slander, accuse); they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof."  (Prov. 18:21).
The fact that Elohim began His creation, or re-creation, by speaking light into being was also interesting to the kids and to me. As the created light (ore-light of life, light of a lamp, light of instruction, light of prosperity, light of day, lightning) of Elohim divided the darkness, we learned that light is always greater, more powerful, than darkness. We learned at this point that Jesus is the Light of the world, and He told us that we are also that same light. Darkness must retreat in the presence of light, and cannot overpower light (Jn. 1:1-5).
I also discovered and learned something from verses 11-18 as we read them. It was something I had not thought about before. I wondered why Elohim waited until the fourth day to create the sun, moon, and stars. In v. 11-13, on the third day, Elohim spoke vegetation into being on the earth. This vegetation must, by His command, contain the power of perpetual life. It must produce seed and fruit. This vegetation would eventually supply food for the animals and mankind that would be coming (v. 29-30).
Immediately thereafter, Elohim established the Light Cycle that would be needed to support the vegetation. One of the reasons He created the sun, moon, and stars in v. 14-18, was for the creation of seasons. Plants have a Vegetative Cycle, and a Flowering Cycle. For the Vegetative Cycle, the producing of stalks and leaves, a plant needs at least 16-18 hours of light, and 6-9 hours of darkness. This is the light required for photosynthesis to occur. This is the light/darkness that comes during spring and into summer. In order to switch from the Vegetative Cycle to the Flowering Cycle, to produce seeds and fruit, the hours of light and darkness must be balanced to about 12 hours each. This begins to happen as the summer season moves towards the fall. The hours of light and darkness needed for the growing cycle of plants must be regulated, and the sun and moon and stars provided this regulation of light. Various scientists did not discover the process of photosynthesis in plants until the 1600's-1700's, and it is still being studied and updated today (Calvin Cycle, UC, Berkeley). Elohim, of course, knew it all along, and showed it to Moses.
As interesting as this is from a scientific standpoint, I find it even more valuable from a spiritual standpoint. Elohim does nothing without also creating the perfect provision for it. He will create a sun, moon, and stars, in part, to support a blade of grass, or an apple tree. How much more, and how much more bountifully, will He make the perfect provision for each of us?
"So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not worry saying, "What shall we eat?" or "What shall we drink?" or "What shall we wear?" For after all these things Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you."   Mt. 6:28-33
If we are struggling through these times, it is good to remember the incredible wisdom, knowledge, understanding and provision of Elohim as taught to us in Genesis 1.

Our Father reveals His provision in Genesis 1.

High Praise (Song of Job)
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