Two Coming Appointments*
A popular song from the 1960's was written by Pete Seeger and recorded by the Byrds. It is titled "Turn, Turn, Turn", and the words of the song were taken from Ecclesiastes 3. Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 states: "To every thing there is a season ( zeman/zaman - a set time, appointed time, a stated time/to fix a time, times appointed), and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted." Heaven is eternal, but all things under heaven become appointed in time. We don't like to think about death, but we will read that death comes to everyone: "And it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation ( yeshua in Hebrew, meaning "God is our salvation", also being Jesus' name in Hebrew)....