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For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
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God's Sovereign Plan
Commentators, particularly John Gill, emphasize that this verse points to God's absolute sovereignty. Every event, from the creation of the world to the smallest details of our lives, has a divinely appointed and determined time. This isn't random chance, but part of God's wise and unchangeable plan, unfolding exactly as He purposes.
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Ecclesiastes
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Everything - More particularly, the actions of people (for example, his own, Ecclesiastes 2:1–8) and events which happen to peopl…
19th Century
Anglican
A season. —The word is only found in later Hebrew (Nehemiah 2:6; Esther 9:27; Esther 9:31), an…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
To every [thing there is] a season A set determined time, when everything shall come into being, how long it shall c…
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