Time For God

But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.

For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.

but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ;

For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.

and in this place again, “They will not enter into my rest.”

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

and that he may send Christ Jesus, who was ordained for you before,

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

For there is born to you, this day, in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”

As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?”

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants serve him.

He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”

don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice, — read the full passage →

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end. — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life. — read the full passage →

Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations, to take out of them a people for his name. — read the full passage →

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord, — read the full passage →

I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself. — read the full passage →

that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’”

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”

On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside. — read the full passage →