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20 Bible Verses About Seasons

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  • Genesis 8:22 promises seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter “as long as the earth endures,” and God makes the promise while saying the human heart is “evil from childhood.”
  • Genesis 1:14 and Psalm 104:19 use moed, appointed time, for the times the sun and moon mark; Brown-Driver-Briggs judges it most probable that both mean the sacred seasons fixed by the moon.
  • Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 applies season to human life in paired opposites, from birth and death to war and peace.
  • In Acts 1:7 Jesus declines to tell the disciples when the kingdom will be restored, saying the times are set by the Father’s authority.
  • At Lystra, Paul points a crowd who had tried to sacrifice to him and Barnabas to “rain from heaven and crops in their seasons” as God’s testimony (Acts 14:17).

The Bible presents the seasons as God’s work, set at creation and promised after the flood to continue as long as the earth endures. Genesis 8:22 names them as seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter. Ecclesiastes 3:1 widens the word to “a season for every activity under the heavens,” and other passages draw on the farming year: plowing, rain, fruit and failed harvests. Seasons God set in creation and promised after the flood Genesis 1:14-15 “And God…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Strong’s Hebrew 4150, מוֹעֵד (moed): appointed time, appointed feast; the Brown-Driver-Briggs entry discusses Genesis 1:14 and Psalm 104:19. biblehub.com/hebrew/4150

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