Noble machine with toothed wheels Lacerates the day and divides it in hours... Speeds on the course of the fleeing century, And to make it open up, Knocks every hour at the tomb.
—Ciro di Pers, "Reflections," Christianity Today, Vol. 44, no. 11., Today's Best Illustrations – Volume 5, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: "TIME".
Genesis 1:5 (TEV) . . .and he named the light "Day" and the darkness "Night." Evening passed and morning came—that was the first day.
Matthew 24:36 (TEV) "No one knows, however, when that day and hour will come—neither the angels in heaven nor the Son; the Father alone knows."
2 Peter 3:8 (NET1) Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day.
