Given in our theme scripture are passionate words from the Lord Jesus about Jerusalem’s pathetic fate after rejecting Him. He says, Jerusalem (Israel) did not know the time of her visitation. The word “time” is translated from a Greek word “Kairos” which means set time or season. The coming of Jesus was a set time of God for Israel but they didn’t know or discern due to spiritual blindness. The consequences of this lack of discernment was pathetic as indicated in our theme scripture:” For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you”. They missed an opportunity which would only come again in not less than 2,000 years. Don’t allow that happen to you.

To know the set times is not a function of your natural acumen because it’s spiritual. The religious and learned leaders of Israel missed this time of God’s special visitation. God signals within and outside your heart about such set times or appointed times. To discern the times, you must have the wisdom of the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit who helps you. Ephesians 5:17 enjoins us “Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is”. God wants you to understand what He is doing, what He wants and what you should do. And it is in the power of the Holy Spirit to help you discern within and outside, the signals of the set times.

1 Chronicles 12:32 (LSB) records amazing account of the sons of Issachar: “Of the sons of Issachar, men who knew how to discern the times, to know what Israel should do, their chiefs were two hundred; and all their relatives were at their command”. They were discerning of the times and advised the course of action to be taken. Always open your heart to the ministry of the Holy Spirit and His Word through which you become discerning of the set times.