Time and Eternity

Lesson 1

Who Created Time?

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“And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.” Romans 13:11

Who created time? Who made the divisions of time; days, nights, weeks, months, and years?

God created a universal clock. The Earth, Moon and Sun are the hands on God’s clock.

1. “And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to the day from the night;”
Genesis 1:14 "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. God uses the Earth, Sun and Moon to show a difference between and . Genesis 1:14

B. Signs, seasons, days and years are based on time. What does God use to determine time? Genesis 1:14-19

2. In Genesis 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31, the length and time of a day was determined by “ and the ” as one day. This is accomplished by the Earth’s rotation.

3. One rotation of the Earth on its axes equals one day. The time it takes for the Earth to make one rotation is divided into 24 units which we call .

4. One orbit of the moon around the Earth is equal to one month or day? .

5. One orbit of the Earth around the Sun is equal to year.

6. During one orbit of the Earth around the Sun

A. The Earth will rotate 365 times, which is days.

B. The moon will orbit the Earth 12 times, which is months.

7. God numbered the days in a week and they are days.
Genesis 2:1-3 "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made."

8. The last day of a week is the day.
Exodus 20:8-11 "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it."

9. Because the Sabbath is the last day of a week, then from one Sabbath to the next Sabbath is how many days?

A. One Sabbath would be how many weeks?

Sabbath of weeks

10. The Feast of Pentecost is 50 days after the feast of Firstfruits and the time for counting the days is in Leviticus 23:15-16. The statement, “even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days:”

A. Seven Sabbaths (Sabbath of weeks) is equal to how many weeks?
B. Seven Sabbaths is equal to how many days plus one (“the morrow after”)?

Sabbath of years

11. Six years the Jews will work their fields, but the seventh year shall be a of rest in the fields.
Leviticus 25:3-4 "Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard."

12. The Sabbath of years is how many years? Leviticus 25:4

13. “And thou shalt number Sabbaths of unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be unto thee and years.” Leviticus 25:8

14.The Sabbath of Sabbath years is how many years?

15. The Year of is the 50th year. Leviticus 25:10-17

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