“It is not for you to know times or seasons
that the Father has fixed by His own authority.
-Acts 1:7 ESV
They
had asked, “Lord, will You at this time restore the Kingdom to Israel?”
The response from Jesus is anticlimactic to the impatient. The King
will not be forced, or rushed, or pushed into action. Jesus said, “It is
not for you to know the times and the seasons.”
The
Kingdom of God is progressive – growing up
from a single seed into an abundant tree with many branches and much
fruit. Those seedlings were just freshly planted in eleven men and they
would not come to maturity all at once but over the course of many
seasons of increase and decrease. We cannot speculate as to when He will
return in the power and glory of His Kingdom. We must “watch therefore,
for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is
coming.”
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