08/31/08 - Do we have an appointed time of death?

(Psalm 139:16).

“All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be”

So, yes, God knows exactly when, where, and how we will die. God knows absolutely everything about us

Psalm 139:1-6

1 O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar.
3 You scrutinize my path and my lying down,  And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O LORD, You know it all.

James 4:13-15

“Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that.”

We are to make wise decisions about how we live our lives and how we take care of ourselves. And ultimately, we trust God that He is sovereign and in control of all things.

Ecc 8

8 No man has authority to restrain the wind with the wind, or authority over the day of death;

Psalm 139:13-16

13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
15 You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
16 You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.

Psalms 39:4-5

4 “LORD, make me to know my end, And what is the measure of my days, That I may know how frail I am.

5 Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths,  And my age is as nothing before You;  Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor.  Selah  

Psalm 139:16

16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

Revelation 1:18

18 I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.

Psalms 90:9-19

9 All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a moan.

10 The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty, if we have the strength;
      yet their span ^[a] is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly

away.

Exodus 20:12

12 "Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the

LORD your God is giving you.