Coba jelasin </blockquote> dari Ramalan Alkitab dalam bahasa melayu dong

...the Semitic concept of time is closely coincident with that of its content without which time would be quite impossible. The quantity of duration completely recedes behind the characteristic feature that enters with time or advances in it. Johannes Pedersen comes to the same conclusion when he distinguishes sharply between the Semitic understanding of time and ours. According to him, time is for us an abstraction since we distinguish time from the events that occur in time. The ancient Semites did not do this; for them time is determined by its content.

In this way, the  use of "soon" may mean this will be the next significant event which will take place with certainty.