Jesus came as a baby the first time under the prophetic time table of God. He will also come a second time to bring His people back to Heaven. God is always on Time.

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Mark Finley

Always on Time

God's timetable is not always our timetable.

And the promises of God for you will be fulfilled in your life, even if you do not see them immediately fulfilled.

The more I study nature, the more I sense of this incredible design of God.

If you haven't studied at all about Pacific salmon, look it up, they're incredible.

Pacific salmon spawn and they swim from the place that they have spawned, often 100 miles, 500 miles, 1, 000 miles, and when it gets time for them to die, they come back to the place where they were born.

When their life is ebbing away, they want home.

And they navigate, many of them, a thousand miles or beyond back to the place they were born.

Now scientists wondered how do they do this?

How does a fish that it's left its spawning place and gone a thousand miles, how does it know how to get back home?

Well, they've come up with 2 very plausible reasons.

And as the result of that, imprinted in its brain is the smell of its home.

And as it begins to navigate down these rivers, it smells where it's going, and the brain is imprinted of the salmon with that smell, and it can navigate its way home.

The second thing that they've noticed is this.

There was a 2005 study, and researchers discovered, now get this 1, researchers discovered that there are single cells in the brain of a salmon that act like compass needles.

They have a microscopic collection of magnetic crystals in their brain.

And these compass needles in the brain of the salmon lead that salmon back home.

Now, salmon have this incredible sense of timing.

They know when it's about ready to die, they're about ready to die.

They know that they're going to spawn and Pacific Span salmon spawn once in their lifetime.

They know it's time to spawn, they're going to die.

And so as the result of that, they long for home.

When life is ebbing away, they long for home.

They have this sense that the fullness of time has come.

Imprinted on their brains at birth is this longing for home.

And every single 1 of us have imprinted on our brains by the divine creator a longing for home.

We know that there must be something better in life than sickness, in suffering, in heartache, in death.

We know deep within the fabric of our beings that this world is not our home.

Now The purpose that Jesus came to earth was to take us to heaven.

The purpose he came to our home in the cosmos is because he wanted to take us to his home in the universe.

Now in 1 of the most magnificent verses in all the Bible, in Galatians chapter 4 verse 4, the Bible describes this magnificent desire of Christ to take us home.

So if you have your Bible, I invite you to take it and turn to Galatians, the fourth chapter, the fourth verse, is the basis of our Bible study this morning.

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his son born of a woman, born under the law, verse 5, to redeem those who were under the law that we might receive the adoptions of sons.

Now there are 3 things in that passage to notice.

If you look at the text in Galatians 4 verse 4, when the fullness of time has come, That's a divine timetable.

I pray as we study these things that the Holy Spirit will speak to our hearts.

That the Holy Spirit that spoke to the prophets of old will speak to us.

Let's first look at this idea of divine timetable.

He came when the fullness of time had come.

Now this should not surprise us, because throughout history, God has always orchestrated time.

But we can look at passages in the Old Testament particularly that point out that God has a divine timetable for prophetic events.

For example, if you look at Genesis 6 verse 3, The timing of the coming of the flood.

The Lord said, my spirit shall not always strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh, yet his days shall be 120 years.

We find this concept that prophetic events happen on time.

Remember Israel was in captivity to Egyptian bondage.

They did not come out of bondage simply at some random timing.

If you look at Exodus chapter 12, Exodus chapter 12, throughout history God has had a prophetic timetable.

And it came to pass, Exodus 12 verse 41, and it came to pass at the end of 430 years, on that very same day.

It came to pass that all the armies of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.

Maybe it's easier for us to read from the screen.

And it came to pass on that very same day that the Lord brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt according to their armies.

So God had predicted that Egypt, that Israel would be in Egyptian captivity for 430 years, And the Bible says in 2 places, on that very day, God has a prophetic timetable.

All the power of Pharaoh could not keep Israel in Egypt.

The armies of the Egyptians were no match for the might of the Almighty God.

And God is always on time, he is never late.

You remember the Babylonian captivity as well.

Israel is in captivity to Babylon for 70 years.

Nebuchadnezzar is overthrown by Darius and Cyrus.

But at the end of that 70 year captivity, look at Jeremiah 29 verse 10.

God has a divine timetable of prophetic events.

All the powers of hell could not keep the rain from falling in Noah's day.

All of the Egyptian armies could not keep Israel in captivity after that 430 years.

All the might of Babylon could not keep the Babylonians and the Medo-Persians locking the Israelites in captivity.

I will visit you and perform my good work toward you and cause you to return to this place.

In other words, after 70 years, all the powers of Babylon, all the powers of Medo-Persia cannot keep you in activity, in captivity, because I'm coming to take you home.

Does God have a divine prophetic timetable of events?

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