The Scriptural foundation of understanding Time and the preappointed times/timings – needed to understand the Feasts of the Lord in the NT.

For the New Testament believers in Jesus Christ who were never under the Law of Moses, to understand the significance and application of the Feasts of the Lord, the concept of Time and the preappointed times/timings of God lay an important scriptural foundation of understanding God’s created structure in which the Feasts were set to serve God’s Kingdom purposes.

– God has determined the preappointed times

Acts 17:26 “And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,

– for signs and seasons, and for days and years

Genesis 1:14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; 15 “and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so.

Ephesians 6:13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, …

18 praying always (?) with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints.

 praying at all times = “kairos-timing”

 The general concept of Time = Chronos
 The preappointed (moment, period of) time = Kairos (keros)

1 Thessalonians 5:1 But concerning the times (chronos) and the seasons (kairos), …

Psalms 81:1 SING aloud to God our strength; Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob. 2 Raise a song and strike the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the lute. 3 Blow the trumpet at the time of the New Moon, at the full moon, on our solemn feast day. 4 For this [is] a statute for Israel, a law of the God of Jacob.