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NASB | Acts 1:7 He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 1:7 He said to them, "It is not for you to know the times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority. |
Subject: Teaching Bible Prophecy |
Bible Note: Tony - Following your recitation of certain things already past, you conclude, "but that shouldn't deter us from preaching about events that are yet to be fulfilled." ...... True enough. But as I've striven to emphasize in previous posts, we should view and teach the Bible with the same emphasis in which the Holy Spirit inspired it, giving to each topic the balance and weight that divine inspiration laid upon it. ..... You use the phrase "there was an exact time" in connection with great biblical events. Let's borrow on that idea and postulate that the Bible also teaches there is a time to be saved. Look at Paul's second Corinthian Letter, 6:2. First he quotes Isaiah, and applying his words to the present situation in the age of grace under Christ Jesus, he states, "now is the day of salvation." There is, to use your phrase, an exact time when God listens to sinners and responds to the repentant ones. That time in Paul's day was "now," and in our time it still is "now." But that time will end. We don't know when, but in God's good time it surely will. See Genesis 6:3; Proverbs 1:24ff; John 9:4. That this day of salvation will come to an end is reason for Paul's timely and impassioned plea. ..... I submit, my friend, that the message of the gospel, which is God's power to save sinners (Romans 1:16), carried by human vessels to a lost world, has a pecking order in God's economy that far surpasses standing on the ground, peering into the sky, and musing and guessing about what may take place in the future of which no one has exact knowledge but God. Why should we not do what we can to carry out Christ's command that He clearly laid down in the Great Commission? And let God "worry about" the future! --Hank |