1 L.E.D. God and Time I. God and Time A. God is eternal הוהי yud heh vav heh Who is, Who was, Who is to come. B God Inhabits Eternity Isaiah 57:15 KJV 15 For thus saith the High and Lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy. God doesn t just know the future. He lives there in eternity. Is not limited by time or space. God was God before time. (See His Name above.) C. God Invented Time Coming back from Australia, the first time. Pilot announced we were crossing the International Date Line. I heard: God invented time. Precisely. Mathematically. Scientifically. He measured out a piece of Eternity and called it Time, for His dealings with man. Each ticking second counts off time until the end of Time and its usefulness to God. Arrived in LA before I left Australia.
2 II. God introduces time and place in the first verse of the Bible. NASB Gen. 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (Every time the word heavens is used in the O.T. it is plural.) םימש Shamayim Heavens (םימ - Mayim Water III. Luminaries in the Heavens Genesis 1:14 14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years; A. For Time B. For Signs Day (yom) and Night (lila) Days (yomim) Year (shana) Years (shanim) Month (chodesh) Determined by the Moon The New Moon - Head of the month (rosh chodesh) (ot) = sign תא 1.Signs as Omens Chumash The Gutnick Edition Bereishit Genesis 1:14 God said, The luminaries shall be positioned in the firmament of the skies to separate between the day and the night! They will serve as omens (of bad events, when there is an eclipse, and will determine the time of the ) festivals, and years!
3 Rashi: And they shall be for signs, i.e. as omens, for when the luminaries are eclipsed, it is an ill-omen for the world, as in the verse [Jer. 10:2] Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven See Josephus NAS Joel 2:28 And it will come about after this That I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind; And your sons and daughters will prophesy, Your old men will dream dreams, Your young men will see visions. Joel 2:29 And even on the male and female servants I will pour out My Spirit in those days. Joel 2:30 And I will display wonders in the sky and on the earth, Blood, fire, and columns of smoke. Joel 2:31 The sun will be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. Joel 2:32 And it will come about that whoever calls on the name of the LORD Will be delivered; For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem There will be those who escape, As the LORD has said, Even among the survivors whom the LORD calls. (See Trei Asar) These four verses in the Hebrew Bible are a complete Chapter. Chapter 3:1-4 This chapter begins an entirely new phase of the prophecy of Joel, in which he foretells of the Messianic era that will take place in the end of days. (Rashi) 2. For signs as guidance. Navigators used the sun, moon, and stars to sail, travel, etc Aleph Tav תא 3. The Hebrew Word for sign ot
4 Power Point תא = Et = Untranslatable תא = Ot = Sign, Letter תא Psalm 119 Look in your list of the marvelous Hebrew aleph bet for א the first letter aleph ת the last letter tav (ot) = sign תא (ot) = letter, an individual letter of the alephbet תא (sometimes spelled with a vav ו in the middle but not always.) Letters are signs. They stand for something. They make up words. רבד = word (devar) Words make things. רבד = thing (devar) C. For Moeds (Seasons) דעומ Moed Appointed time. Appointed place. םידעומ (plural) Moedim Genesis 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide םידעומ the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons Moed (In Time) The appointed times on the Redemptive Calendar The appointed times to meet with God. The moedim are days which stand out from the rest of the year. Holy Days Set Apart Days - Holidays
5 Moed (In space) Refers to the locality the appointed place of assembly for an appointed purpose. i.e., the ochel moed, the tent of meeting. Deuteronomy 12:4,5 4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God. 5 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put His name there, even unto His habitation shall ye seek and thither shall ye come. 7 Ye shall eat before the LORD your God and ye shall rejoice. God Redemptive Calendar Leviticus 23