In the beginning when God set up the earth, He made the sun and the moon. God design the sun to provide light and as He said to rule the day. Then God made the moon
to provide some light to rule the darkness. God set up the sun and moon for man to be able to measure seasons, minutes, hours, days, months and years. This was the beginning of time. Then God also uses the sun and the moon to tell the end of time. The sun will be darkened and the moon will turn to blood before the great day of the Lord.
God has used the sun and the moon to be able to tell us many truths about ourselves and the world. The Light and the darkness and two different sides of this world. God has always been concerned with man’s well being. God promised a savior and called Him the Dayspring. He also called Him the Light of the world, differentiating the light and the darkness, day and night.
Man has always used time to direct his life. The very first measurement of time was the sundial. It’s very simple, you put a stick straight up in the ground and the sun will cast a shadow each hour of the day. The ancient Egyptians used the star constellation, Orion’s Belt, to built their pyramids, some 4500 years ago. In the 5th century BCE, the Mayans had a calendar that is still in use today. It consists of 3 different calendars, the Long or astrological calendar, the divine or religious calendar and the civil or solar calendar. Then there is the Hebrew or Jewish calendar, which is a lunisolar calendar. It was made in 3721 BCE. The Jews use it still today for everything, agriculture, business, or religious activities. Let us not forget our Gregorian calendar. It is a solar calendar based on a 365 day year, except on every 4th year, it is 366 day year. There is a leap year because there are 365.25 days in a solar year.
Life is determined by time. This is why time is one of our most precious possessions. Before the great flood, which occurred about 5000 BCE, people would live 500 to 700 years. After the flood, people were only living less than a 100 years. Today people basically live about 70 years. It seems that time is running out.
During Jesus’ time, He often would talk to the Pharisees. One day He was speaking to them about what they could see in the sky. He said, you see in the morning that the sky is red and know that a storm is coming. And in the evening, you see that the sky is red and know that the storm has passed. He said if you can discern the face of the sky, why can’t you discern the sign of the times?
Can you take a yardstick or a measuring tape to measure time? How can you know what will happen tomorrow? How much time do you have left? Where is your life going or coming from? How can you measure the time left in your life? Are you gambling on your life expectancy? Is it just a roll of the dice or is there a better way? Time waits for no man. It is coming to a conclusion soon. So, what is there to do?
Measuring time means looking at your life and sizing it up. There was a Babylonian king that took the cups and plates from the Jewish Temple and used them for his banquet. Then God wrote on the wall of the banquet hall, you are out of time. That king died that night. Are you waiting for God to give you a sign that your time is up? Are will you do something about your life while you can?
From the beginning of time, God has always made a way. From Adam down through today, that way has always been there. In the 5th century BCE, God wrote how man can assure his life in this world and in the world to come.
2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Crain Blanchard.
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