Sundry Times

Hebrews 1:1 KJV

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

Why God has chosen to work as He has is a matter of His divine wisdom, kept I believe, from the minds of mortality. His truth, His salvation, His message came, the writer says, at sundry times (the dictionaries say that means in different portions.) God chose not to speak all at once but to give His message over the course of thousands of years.

His message is a progressive one but not in the same sense as a school system progressively teaches. He gave a portion of His message and waited hundreds of years before giving the next. So

• To Adam He gave a promise of a Saviour
• To Noah He gave the quarter of the world from which He would come
• To Abraham, the nation
• To Judah,  the tribe
• To David, the family
• To Micah, the city
• To Daniel the time
• To Malachi, the forerunner
• To Isaiah His death
• To Jonah His burial and
• To Hosea His resurrection (JFB)

The messages built one upon another but not in scheduled and measurable periods. God spake as God willed, sometimes giving generations substantial portions of the revelation and sometimes leaving generations to mull on that Word they had.

God's ways are past finding out.

• Ours is to observe and marvel
• Ours is to meditate and mull
• Ours is to hear and obey

We do not need to figure God out; we need to bow before God.

Only in Him is wisdom and honor and glory and majesty.