Matthew 16:3b

You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.

From Background Notes [BN] for September 15^th & 16^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

It is not for us to set the times, but we are responsible to read the signs of the times to determine what kind of work we need to do… and when we should do it.

 
Within a wider context, God unfolds His times: “I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please” (Isaiah 46:10). Our perspective of the “right time” lacks the big picture “from ancient times.” We manage the immediate and want to arrange the world that is at our feet and in front of our face — the world we intend to control by setting the dates and drawing the timelines. But God will not have it so. His Word comes to the prophet at specific times of His choosing: in this case, the second year of king Darius on the first day of the sixth month. God does not ask the Judeans if they have a conflict in their datebook, and will He have to make adjustment?. [BN, 4]

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