ON THE UNVEILED TIMES AND SEASONS

An earlier volume of this teaching was written to restore ownership. It argued that time is not a river carrying God, but a servant reporting to Him; that hope is not a mood but a throne; and that the Church is not a victim of the calendar but a witness to the God of the calendar.This book is written to restore vocabulary.There is a reason the enemy of the saints is described in Daniel as one who thinks to change times and laws. Whoever controls the words a people use for time will eventually control what that people expect. Our age has been given a vocabulary of deadlines, cycles, projections, and quarters. It has almost no vocabulary for appointment, jubilee, watch, fullness, or set time. A generation that cannot say moʿēd in any language will find it very difficult to wait like a son and very easy to panic like an orphan.So in these twelve chapters the Scriptures are heard again in the three tongues that carried them. Hebrew gives us the covenant weight of appointed time. Aramaic - the speech of exile, of Daniel's court, and of our Lord's own streets - gives us the language of a people who learned to worship under foreign clocks. Greek gives us the missionary precision that carried kairos into every province of an empire.Three tongues, one government. Hebrew says the appointment is covenanted. Aramaic says the appointment survives captivity. Greek says the appointment is announced to the nations.The second watch is the hardest watch. It is the stretch of the night after the excitement of taking your post has worn off, and before the first grey line appears in the east. The first watch is kept by adrenaline. The third watch is kept by dawn. The second watch is kept by love alone.This book is written for that watch, and for the watchmen who are keeping it now: pastors in cities that have forgotten their altars, mothers praying over sons in far countries, believers under governments that legislate against the rhythms of God, and servants labouring in fields whose harvest belongs to a generation not yet created.Read slowly. Say the words aloud. Let the seals do their work. The God who divided light from darkness and called them day and night has not lost His authority over the hour in which you are reading this page.- Dr. Benypowerful