Is there time with God?

"In your book all my days will be written, but they are already formed when none of them has yet come into existence" Ps 139

 

Today, looking through my notes in the Bible (I recommend circling the interesting parts), I was reminded of this Psalm. I think for a reason, because one, I was supposed to do a description of a certain movie, which I will do today, and two, Emilka mentioned it in a comment, although she doesn't know about it herself 🙂 I think it's a good idea to do it today.

So the entry will be about what Cupak 🙂 as an exact mind likes.

 

 

We live in the physical world in the four known dimensions of space-time length, width, height (or depth) and time. But God dwells in another dimension-spiritual reality-beyond the perception of our physical senses.

His Person is not limited by the physical laws and dimensions that govern our world:

 

"For thus saith the Most High. The One who dwells forever on high, and whose name is 'Holy among the holy.' I reign in the high and holy place, but I am also with him who is contrite and humble in spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to comfort the hearts of the contrite." Is 57.15

 

God is eternal. He was is and will be. His abode is high above us, though He worries about us contemptible humans.

In Psalm 90 we are shown the timelessness of God:

 

For a thousand years in your eyes is like yesterday's day that has passed away, And like a night watch. (5) You swiftly snatch them away, they are like a morning dream, Like grass that disappears: (6) In the morning it blooms and grows, By the evening it wilts and withers

 

God sees everything past, future, and eternity everlasting. The time He passes on earth is meaningless from the perspective of God's timelessness.

 

God is also a spirit:

 "God is a spirit" (J 4,24)

 

 

Additionally, the science of physics tells us that time is a property arising from the existence of matter. As such, time exists when there is a case. But God is not matter; For God created matter. The bottom line is this: time, began when God created the universe. Before that, God simply existed.  Because it wasn't invalid, and because God doesn't change, time didn't exist and therefore has no meaning, no relationship to Him. It is matter that passes away, but spirit does not. In John's gospel we read:

 

 

The spirit brings life. THE FLESH HELPS NOTHING. The words which I have spoken to you are spirit and life, (64) but there are some among you who do not believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning, who are unbelievers and who will give it away.

 

 

God has no beginning or end. He is beyond the realm of time. He is the Alpha and the Omega. Eternity is not something that can be completely associated with God. God is even beyond eternity. 

Scripture reveals that God lives beyond the limits of time as we know it. Our destiny was planned "before the beginning of time" (2 Timothy 1: 9; Titus 1: 2) and "before the foundation of the world" (Ephesians 1: 4; 1 Peter 1:20). "By faith we know that the universe was created by the command of God, so that what is seen did not come into being from what was visible" (Hebrews 11: 3). In other words, the physical universe we can see, hear, feel and experience was not created from existing matter, but from a source independent of the physical dimensions we can perceive.

After the completion of His activity, including the creation of creation time, what does God include? "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good" (Genesis 01:31). Indeed, God is Spirit in the realm of timelessness, not flesh in the realm of time.

As believers, we have a deep sense of comfort knowing that God, though timeless and eternal, is with us at this time in this moment; He is not in the net beyond the reach of the transcendent, but here, in this moment, He is with us. And because He is in the moment, He can respond to our needs and prayers.

Whereas there is a time in heaven:

There is a time in heaven:

-when he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour ( Rev. 8: 1 ).

- And when he opened the fifth seal [the martyrs in heaven said]: "And with a loud voice they cried out thus: "Lord holy and true! How long will you delay the judgment and punishment of our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"

- Between the town square and the river, on both sides, the tree of life bearing twelve fruits - bearing its fruit each month - and the leaves of the tree (serve) to heal the nations.

- This one, on the other hand, offered one blood sacrifice for sin once and for all and "sat down at the right hand of God." (13) Henceforth he waits "until his enemies are cast as a footstool under his feet." Heb 10

- I have long been silent, I have not spoken, I have restrained myself; but now like a woman in labor I shall cry out, I shall wail and whine.

- What do you want from us, Son of God, you came here ahead of time to torment us? God came before time to the demons."( Matt. 8:29 ). Incidentally, they know that Jesus is God and that it is He who will destroy them. No angel has that kind of power.

 

Neither men nor angels can be omnipresent, even in heaven, for they would have to be Gods. The same limitation applies to timelessness. If God exists outside of time, and angels before His throne:

 

"And the four animals - and each of them has six wings - round about and within are full of eyes, and have no rest, saying day and night: "Holy, holy, holy, Lord, God, Ruler of all things, who was, who is, and who is to come."

 

and men serving Him, will always also be timeless, which would mean that they are also Gods. But Jesus said :

 

"will receive in return far more at this time and eternal life in the age to come" ( Luke 18:30 )

 

So in this life he will receive much more, and in the next life eternity, because:

 

"Oh yes, I declare to you: this generation will not pass away until all things are done.³³ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away."

 

As we note the sky will pass away. The question is which. The first, or the second.

 

There is something else about temporality. What was in Emilia's comment a let it be the introduction to my next text:

Demons know the future, but only of enslaved people. Saved people, saved by the blood of Jesus, escape the demons' predictability, which is why psychics of all kinds can no longer predict the future for such people. God is just going to hinder the process of the effect of sin, which I believe is the demons' plan for people in bondage.