TIME AND SPACE

TIME AND SPACE

                Albert Einstein called time an illusion. In other words time doesn’t exist as an entity. Time is related to movement since it takes time for a physical object to move from here to there. Time is also related to decay, since in our physical universe (since the fall of mankind) everything decays, suns burn out, stars explode, planets spin and orbit in perpetual motion and it is from such movement that we have our seasons.

                Our sun has cycles of solar minimums and solar maximums and our planets are protected from outer space by the sun’s heliosphere, a giant electromagnetic atmosphere in which our planets circle the sun. In turn this heliosphere from the sun creates the magnetosphere that circulates from pole to pole to protect our planet from the sun’s harmful rays and the cosmic radiation that comes to our planet from outer space.

                Our sun is in a solar minimum cycle right now and it should result in cooler temperatures and a buildup of ice on the poles, but something is happening within our heliosphere that is heating up our planet as well as the other planets in our solar system. Accordingly Al Gore may tell you that our planet is heating up because of the cars we drive, but in truth that is simply globalist nonsense geared to control our lives. I seriously doubt that my pickup truck is causing unprecedented storms on Mars and Jupiter.

                But that is not really my subject today because the Spirit of God dwells completely outside of all of this time as we know it. And God does not need to move in the way we think of it when we ask God that His glory come down. God is already everywhere in time and space and yet outside of it. This attribute that we call “Omnipresence” is a very big word. It means everywhere present both in time and in space and outside of time and space.

                To God all time is the same. He sees us standing on the sea of glass just as easily as He sees Abraham believing in Him and being willing to offer his own son as a prototype of His own infinite gift.

                We have such a problem with predestination as we seek to describe it in human terms, but our sad little explanations fizzle when we realize that He, God, is the Alpha and the Omega. He knows who is standing on the Sea of Glass and so He sends His angels as Psalm 91 says: “For He will give His angels charge concerning you to guard you in all your ways. And…”Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?” Heb. 1:14

                But since God need not move in order to come to us, since He is omnipresent, we must ask ourselves what attracts His attention to us? How does He determine whom He will save and who will be left out of the marriage?

                “Thus says the Lord, Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. Where then is a house you could build for Me? And where is a place that I may rest? For My hand made all these things, thus all these things came into being,” declares the Lord. “But to this one I will look, to him who is humble and contrite of spirit and who trembles at My Word.” Isa. 66:1, 2

                Do you want to get God’s attention? Then humble yourself before Him… feed upon His Word and tremble at what it says. Eat the flesh of His Son and drink His blood, for His flesh is true food and His blood is true drink, for the words that He speaks to us are spirit and they are life. John 6:51

                “If any man is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water. But this He spoke of the Spirit whom those who believe in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.”  John 7:37-39

                But Jesus HAS been glorified with the glory that He ever had with the Father. He entered time… He entered into our physical universe as one of us in order to die for us, but when He ascended to the throne He was glorified so that His omnipresent Holy Spirit can be with us, not just some times, but all the time and everywhere. And it is because He dwells in a different dimension that He can be even closer to us than we are to each other. HE can dwell in us.

                This is why David asks in Psalm 139. “Where can I go from Thy Spirit?” All spirit, good or bad dwells outside of time and space. Spirit is not of this dimension. Even our born again human spirit, while being a part of our body from birth, does not dwell in this dimension. It dwells in the omnipresent presence of God and that is how He hears our every thought and every prayer. Our born again spirit is extradimensional and that is also how we can be seated with Him in heavenly places even though our body is firmly attached to this physical planet.

                These things are not mere metaphors. Jesus, in John 17 prays that we might be a part of His spiritual family with a unity that is shared only between the Father and the Son. He wants to draw us into that union. And looking down through earth time, Jesu said: “ I do not ask in behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; that they may be one; even as Thou, Father art in Me and I in Thee, that they also may be in Us…” John 17:20, 21a.

                Wow, do you get that? In the Spirit realm words and names have spiritual power. The name of Jesus, wields authority over every principality and power and the Word of God contains that same power to transform us and to operate as His ambassadors in this physical space/time world.

                Today the world and large portions of the church are falling away simply because they no longer tremble at God’s Word. They no longer operate in the Spirit of God, as He intended when He poured out His Spirit upon us at Pentecost. And spirit does not decay or die. It is not a part of this physical creation. Spirit is eternal. God’s Spirit is eternal, our born again spirit is eternal… even evil spirits are eternal and doomed to eternal punishment. And if the Holy Spirit is the very part and parcel, the active agent in our salvation, how can it be said that He died away after the apostles died. It is not the Holy Spirit that has died away; it is we who have walked away from the power of Pentecost. We desperately need to get it back.

                But if we will come to God with a humble and contrite heart and if we will once again tremble at His Word and feed upon it, then we will be eating His spiritual flesh and drinking His spiritual blood. And we can sit around and intellectually argue doctrine until we are blue in the face, but Jesus said: “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing, the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.” John 6:63

                It was when Jesus was saying that we must eat His flesh and drink His blood that many of the disciples fell away from Him… and might I suggest that it is the same issue today that is causing many to fall away. Is it not over the Word? Is it not over the Spirit? Is it not over the blood and body of Christ?

                We want to eat the choice and pleasant parts of the lamb, but God instructed Israel to eat the entire lamb. Their salvation from Egypt depended on it and our salvation today depends upon the same thing. Jesus warned us that if we truly follow Him we will face persecution. But why? It is because we belong to a kingdom of light, but we are living in a kingdom of darkness. When we carry the Spirit of Jesus in us, we attract demons. They come to see if we have the same power and authority that Jesus did… and that is why we must be much more than Christians in name only. We need to have the real thing, the real authority. The real Word hidden in our hearts… the real character of Christ, for we are entering the final battle and the Holy Spirit is leading us into the desert to face the devil, even as He led Jesus into the wilderness to face the devil. But only Jesus in us can defeat Satan.

                Today the demons feel quite safe and comfortable in most churches, simply because they no longer operate in the Spirit and power of Jesus Christ. And therefore Satan is infiltrating churches with false doctrine and false prophecies and he is drawing them back to Rome and into the coming global religion of the antichrist. So if you belong to a church that is making nice with the pope or joining the ecumenical movement… flee from it as if your life depends on it and it does.

                Our petty little arguments and our intellectual pride won’t stand a chance. Only the genuine power of Christ dwelling in us will survive the delusions and persecutions that are coming… and we want to escape it all, but in truth most of us cannot even resist small temptations, let alone life threatening ones. We are nearly spiritually dead and in need of a spiritual overhaul.

                It is time for God’s true Remnant people to humble ourselves before God and the tremble at His Word once again… not as intellectual arguments over doctrine… but as spiritual food for that part of us that belongs to eternity so that in the process of our lives, our souls will be saved and sanctified and set apart unto salvation in the mighty name of Jesus. The Bride must now make herself ready.