For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.
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The Scripture echoesHebrews 10:37
Hebrews quotes this verse to urge endurance: the coming One will come and will not delay.
““In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.”
Fulfilled hereGalatians 4:4
The appointed time arrived when God sent His Son, born under the law.
“But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,”
The same thread2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow concerning His promise; His delay is patience, not forgetfulness.
“The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”