The phrase "right time" brings to mind the right time of heavenly fortune, individual fortune, and national fortune. However, the right time comes without warning to the individual, family, tribe, nation and world. That time does come, but it comes within a sequence. Yesterday succeeded today and today succeeds tomorrow. Therefore, you will have a hard time recognizing the clear turning point. You will have a hard time recognizing whether it comes in the morning, during the day, or at night. It is extremely difficult for you to match your objective position and your life to the moment when the right time passes a certain point. Within the process of history, there were many time periods of the providence: for an individual, a family, a tribe, a nation, etc. There was also the right time for one chosen tribe or a nation. There were also time periods of many surrounding nations. Has a nation or people ever known at the right time that it was the right time and the time of heavenly fortune? Have they ever matched that time? Prophets usually make predictions, and the predicted time always comes. However, that time does not come for several months or days. It comes in one moment, one day, and it passes by centering on a point. Therefore, it is extremely difficult to match the pace exactly with the point which is like a dividing ridge. Almost everything that the prophets predicted has occurred. However, we must know that there were only few moments when we truly knew the significance of the time right at that period and were prepared and able to meet it from an objective position. After the time passes, you reflect on that time, saying, "Oh, spring came at that time. It was a time of good fortune for our nation. The time so-and-so predicted has passed away." This has always been the way of life for human beings-to reflect on the time after it has passed by. Human history has been like this. There are important moments in your life, too. During your life, an important point of time which is definitely necessary to your life will come centering on a certain period. Centering on a certain day, that moment will definitely come and will cross over the peak of a mountain. (40-142) Within human history, the time when one could come into oneness with Jesus' suffering on the cross for several hours or several seconds was very precious and could never happen twice. That time was the precious time when one could welcome and receive official recognition from God. However, in spite of that, Peter, James and John failed to be aware of that time, leaving behind sorrow forever. This sorrow was connected to the whole from the individual and it turned upside down the blessing which God was to give to all people, making a large hole. When we think of that, we must know how heavy was the responsibility of the disciples in that representative position. (40-154)
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