Does time fly?

How often do we hear of this! as a youngster I would often hear my mother saying "Goodness, doesn't time fly, I don't know where it has gone, it must have wings!"

Obviously time does 'fly', for the Scripture says so; For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. James 4.14 (emphasis mine). We can apply this verse to Methuselah and the death of an infant alike. What is time compared to eternity? it is like comparing the finite with the infinite, as Isaiah said Behold the nations are as a drop of a bucket Isa. 40.15, a single drip of water then is how big all the nations are compared to the Almighty! When we talk of time "flying" we mean that it travels very fast, as Daniel said of the archangel Gabriel, being caused to fly swiftly Dan. 9.21. "flying" therefore, is a metaphor for the passage of time.
The fashion of this world passeth away 1 Cor. 7.31, And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever 1 John 2.17.

Time would appear to be an 'accident'; for it is but a parenthesis in God's great scheme of the ages, it came to be through the sin of our first parents, effected by the great adversary himself, Satan. If Satan didn't rebel, who would have caused Adam and Eve to sin? What of Redemption; the true apprehension that we are not automatons? (do we understand this?) Could time have any meaning in eternity? When God said thou shalt surely die to our first parents if they were to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, He said your eyes shall be opened. When they took of the fruit at that precise juncture the time clock did start ticking, that is the curse of death entered the scene for death reigned by one, Rom. 5.17, Satan caused the first Adam to sin, the last Adam redeems His own from his grasp, for He was made a quickening Spirit, 1 Cor.15.45.

Time will end shortly after Satan is loosed for a little time, Rev. 20.3. This will be at the end of Christ's soon coming thousand year reign when the thousand year sabbath rest will end, bringing in eternity.
Is it not without significance that some near six thousand years have elapsed since the creation; and as the Bible says one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day, 2 Pet.3.8, therefore, can we not deduce that six days have now very nearly run their course? God explicitly said that every seventh day was a day of rest, and so was every seventh year (Exod. 20.10-11, Lev. 25.4. By analogy, the doctrine of the thousand years  of Rev. 20 will also be a sabbath day.

It is hard for the finite mind to understand the infinite, but what I do know is that the more time (a precious commodity!) we spend in His written word, the more tangible eternity becomes. The day is soon coming when this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 1 Cor 15.54. This victory is only ours through the crucified Saviour, for the Scripture says thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Cor. 15.57.