OUR FATHER WHO MEASURED A STRIP OF TIME OUT OF ETERNITY WITHIN WHICH THERE IS A TIME FOR EVERTHING

The book of Ecclesiastes chapter 3 begins with the axiom that reads this way;

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:

Out of the fabric of eternity, God measured out a length of time and programmed this timeline to run under the heavens which is our world of three dimensional space and time. 

All the events that would constitute the times of mankind would occur sequentially along this timeline and the writer, in Ecclesiates chapter 3 verse 7, specifies some examples of activities that occur in their own time;

...a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,

Along the timeline alloted to mankind, there is a time to tear and a time to mend.

One day, the Lord Jesus was teaching the people while aboard a boat on Lake Genasseret. When He was done, He asked His disciples to drop their nets in deeper water. Even though they had tried many times before and caught nothing, they tried again when asked by Jesus and  immediately, their nets were so full of fish that the nets tore.

Luke chapter 5 verse 6 says it this way in the NASB version;

 And when they had done this, they caught a great quantity of fish, and their nets began to tear; 

Here, in a time of harvest by miraculous intervention, overstretching and straining to the point of breaking was the order of the day and thus is an appointed time to tear.

At other times, we find the disciples mending nets when things are quiet and there is a time for repairs and reconstruction to prepare for future seasons of harvests as Zebedee and his sons, James and John were doing as described in Mathew chapter 4 verse 21;

And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them.

Along the timeline of human activities, there is also a time to be silent and a time to speak.

There are times that require that we judge when words should be reserved and when words should be spoken.

When the Lord Jesus was brought before king Herod and questioned, Jesus remained completely silent.

Luke chapter 23 verse 9 says it this way;

So he questioned him at some length, but he made no answer.

Here, Jesus, in His silence, was fulfilling the prophecy found in Isaiah chapter 53 verse 7;

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

At other times, like when there are great dispensational changes and confusion abounds, words need to be spoken and such a time was when  the astonishing events of pentecost had occured and believers were speaking all manner of languages and the people who witnessed what was going on were perplexed as Acts chapter 2 verse 12 says;

 Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”

The apostle Peter arose and spoke the words that elucidated the times;

 Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say.

Peter went on to explain the events that were unfolding before their eyes and showed the observers how these things fit into the prophetic timeline that was written of by the prophets.

As we see from examples across the scriptures, there is a time for tearing and for mending and a time to be silent and a time to speak. 

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:

Amen

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