The alternation between night and day has begun. The great clock that God created has started ticking. God is also the Creator of time. Time is a creation and not something that came into being by itself or through a decision of man. Time is also in God’s hands (see, e.g., Joshua 10:13–14 and 2 Kings 20:9–11). Time is finite and transient. One day the Lord will put time—as we know it—aside. That does not mean that existence in eternal glory will be timeless (see Revelation 22:2; Isaiah 66:22–23). The experience of time will be different than it is now. Here we also face a mystery that the Lord will reveal to us when Christ returns.
5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.