“It is He who changes the times and the epochs;
He removes kings and establishes kings;
He gives wisdom to wise men
And knowledge to men of understanding.

There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven—

A time to love and a time to hate;
A time for war and a time for peace.

A time to weep and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn and a time to dance.

He will speak out against the Most High and wear down the saints of the Highest One, and he will intend to make alterations in times and in law; and they will be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time.

You observe days and months and seasons and years.

A time to kill and a time to heal;
A time to tear down and a time to build up.

He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority;

Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years;

“But You are the same,
And Your years will not come to an end.

He made the moon for the seasons;
The sun knows the place of its setting.

A time to give birth and a time to die;
A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted.

“Let his mind be changed from that of a man
And let a beast’s mind be given to him,
And let seven periods of time pass over him.

Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord;

A generation goes and a generation comes,
But the earth remains forever.

‘For behold, the winter is past,
The rain is over and gone.

“Thus says the Lord, ‘If you can break My covenant for the day and My covenant for the night, so that day and night will not be at their appointed time,

“While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
And cold and heat,
And summer and winter,
And day and night
Shall not cease.”

My times are in Your hand;
Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me.

so, you too, when you see all these things, recognize that He is near, right at the door.

and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

You hypocrites! You know how to analyze the appearance of the earth and the sky, but why do you not analyze this present time?

Yours is the day, Yours also is the night;
You have prepared the light and the sun.

but at the proper time manifested, even His word, in the proclamation with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior,

Thus says the Lord, ‘If My covenant for day and night stand not, and the fixed patterns of heaven and earth I have not established,

“For I, the Lord, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

You have established all the boundaries of the earth;
You have made summer and winter.

“Now learn the parable from the fig tree: when its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near;

“My covenant I will not violate,
Nor will I alter the utterance of My lips.

A time to tear apart and a time to sew together;
A time to be silent and a time to speak.

He was the lamp that was burning and was shining and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

And with the choice yield of the sun,
And with the choice produce of the months.

For though I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it—for I see that that letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while—

‘They do not say in their heart,
“Let us now fear the Lord our God,
Who gives rain in its season,
Both the autumn rain and the spring rain,
Who keeps for us
The appointed weeks of the harvest.”