– It has here the broad meaning given by the Greek word kairos , opportunity, occasion, convenient time:
Gn 8,22 : As long as the earth lasts, sowing and reaping, cold and heat, summer and winter, will never cease.
– As opposed to chrónos , definite period, age, duration:
Gen 1 :4 : God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.
– In the Bible, it is always related to humanity and its history:
Ps 89,3-12 : You reduce man to dust, and say: “Children of men, return to dust”.
– Because God is eternal, lord of time and history:
Is 5:19 : (Woe) to those who say: “Let him hurry, let him do his work now, so that we may see it”.
Is 22,11 : But you do not look at him who wanted these things, and you do not see him who prepared them long ago.
Is 43:10-11 : “You are my witnesses”, says the Lord, “and my servants whom I have chosen”.
Jer 7,7 : Then I will allow you to remain in this place, in this land that I gave to your fathers for all centuries.
Ps 89,4 : For a thousand years before you are like yesterday that is past.
Acts 17:26 : He fixed the times and limits of their habitation for the peoples.
1Tm 1,17 : To the King of ages, God alone, invisible and immortal, honor and glory for ever and ever!
– Eternal also are your Word and help:
Is 40,8 : The grass withers and the flower withers, but the word of our God endures forever.
Is 51 :6 : Lift up your eyes to heaven, turn your gaze to the earth: the heavens will disappear like smoke.
– With Jesus, the days that separated them from the Messiah were completed:
Mk 1,15 : The time has come and the Kingdom of God is at hand; do penance and believe in the Gospel.
Jo 1,10 : He was in the world and the world was made by him, and the world did not recognize him.
Jo 7,6 : My time has not yet come, but for you the hour is always favorable.
– Not everyone received it:
Jo 1,10 : He was in the world and the world was made by him, and the world did not recognize him.
Jo 7,6 : My time has not yet come, but for you the hour is always favorable.
– But to those who received him, he gave power to become children of God:
John 1:12 : To those who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God.
– The present time is a sign of the future time with God:
Mk 10:30 : May he not receive, already in this century, a hundred times more houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and lands.
– Paul writes that the fullness of time has come for the unfolding of God’s plan:
1Cor 2,7 : We preach the wisdom of God, mysterious and secret, which God predetermined before time existed.
1Cor 7,29 : But this is what I say to you, brothers: the time is short.
Gal 4 :4 : But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son.
2Tm 1,9 : God saved us and called us to holiness, not according to our works.
– See DAY, WORLD.
