KAIROS TIME

“It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.” (Acts 1:7)  Chronos, here translated “Time”, is a period of measured time... the passing of moments, a quantity of time. Kairos, here translated “Seasons”, considers time qualitatively, a specific, decisive point in time featuring divinely ordained events. The Father has set within His own authority both the predestined events marking specific kairos time periods and their length. There is no English equivalent for the Greek word karios which is a timed manifestation of God’s plan for man occurring at the opportune time... the right time... God’s time. The use of “season” here is misleading since we can and should recognize the season -- the social climate -- conducive to foreordained events much the same way we predict tomorrow’s weather by the weather patterns of today.

That no man knows the day or hour of our Lord’s return is true. But Jesus also chided the Jews because they did not discern the “season” of His first advent, and clearly described the times before His second advent, so saints would know the season of His return! There have been many misguided attempts to forecast the date of our Lord’s return apparently ignoring the simple truth of Matt. 24:36 which directly declares that only the Father knows this date... not even the angels or Jesus know. But millions more ignore or are ignorant of Matt. 16:2-3: “Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times.” Jesus calls them “hypocrites” for being able to discern the weather by looking at the sky while failing to discern the season of His first advent – the coming of the Messiah -- by the “signs of the times”, that is, the fulfillment of God’s Kingdom in the person of Jesus. There simply is no excuse for failing to discern we are living in the “last days” – the times of the signs – the season of “Your (Christ’s) coming, and the end of the age.”

Many, if not most, of the people we come into contact with daily are lost and hell-bound: Spiritual discernment of the season we are living in should drive us to reach out to them with the simple message of God’s love and the Blessed Hope we have in Him – should if His agape love is operational in our life.  Living in the “times of the signs” should produce urgency, unless we are Plaster-Saints... people who claim to be Christians without the love of God flowing from their heart.

TIMES OF THE SIGNS