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Times and Seasons
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| What's the difference between times and the seasons? | |
| Okay, so there is, there's actually different kinds of time. | |
| And so, you know, like just like we understand that there's past, present, and future time, right? | |
| There's also redeemed and non-redeemed time. | |
| And in redeemed time, you're gaining everything because the kingdom is coming. | |
| But in non-redeemed time, you're losing everything. | |
| But there's another kind of time, and the Bible describes two specific kinds of times as times and seasons. | |
| And you can find this in Ecclesiastes chapter 3, and it lists 28 of those, Pastor Jim. | |
| There's 28 of those times in Ecclesiastes chapter 3. | |
| And by the way, the number 28 is a number that represents times and seasons all the way through the Word of God. | |
| And I have a whole chapter on that in one of my books that's on numbers. | |
| But if you go all the way through the Word of God and you see that God stamps the number 28 on something, it tends to represent times and seasons. | |
| Times is like a timeline. | |
| It has a beginning and it has an end, and it's always around some kind of epic event. | |
| But seasons or Moedims, as the Hebrew word is for it, are cyclical and they're circles. | |
| So one is a line, times, and the other one is a circle. | |
| Now, the reason why it's a circle is because it's just like four seasons. | |
| It's meant to be predictable. | |
| If I'm in summer, I know that fall is coming. | |
| And if I'm in fall, I know that winter is coming and so on. | |
| But a timeline is not like that. | |
| A timeline is centered around a specific epic event and the purposes that God wants to fulfill within it. | |