TIME AS WE KNOW IT

TIME AS WE KNOW IT

                No matter how sophisticated car engines get, they all need 3 things. They need fuel, air and spark. In my day it was a carburetor. Now it is fuel injectors. But basically fuel is vaporized and shot into the chamber while the piston is down. The piston then comes up and just when it is at its peak of compression, the spark plug sparks igniting the fuel air mixture and that explosion pushes the piston back down to repeat the cycle over again.

                One of the most important parts of the car’s engine is the timing chain. It connects the crank shaft, the valve shaft and the spark mechanism together so that everything happens at just the right time. If the timing is off and the spark doesn’t spark when the compression is at its peak, the car will misfire or back fire. At any rate it sounds bad and the car has no power and it is time to go in for a tune up.

                Now this may sound like an unlikely leap to you, but let us say that heaven does not have a timing belt. God dwells outside of time and heaven itself is in a dimension in which there is no time as we know it. Time is irrelevant in a non-physical and eternal universe.

                But when God created the physical universe, He created it with certain time markers or cosmic clocks. Genesis 1: 14 says: “Then God said, “ Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years.

                God in His foreknowledge understood that time as we know it here on earth is temporary. This is why we talk about the beginning of time and the end of time. And when Adam and Eve sinned, God set our cosmic time clocks for 6000 years according to the days of creation and added a 7^th millennium, or Sabbath Millennium  when we and our earth will enter into rest.

                During this millennial Sabbath rest we are told that we will once again worship the Lord on new moons and Sabbaths. Isaiah chapter 66 talks about the regathering of God’s chosen people to the land of Israel in the last days. Verse 18 says: “For I know their works and their thoughts; the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory.” And in verses 15 through 17 speak of a judgment of fire, but that those who sanctify and purify themselves will go into the gardens. And verse 23 says: “And it shall be from new moon to new moon and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all mankind will come to bow down before Me“, says the Lord.

                Well, if we compare this with Revelation 21:22, 23 we see that in eternity there will be no temple for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb will be its light and there will be no need of the sun or the moon to shine upon it for the glory of God has illumined it and its lamp is the Lamb.”

                But during the 7^th millennium Ezekiel’s temple will be built and from new moon to new moon and from Sabbath to Sabbath shall all flesh come to Jerusalem to worship the King.

                Now let’s back up a bit and explore another thought. Let’s say that God established and set earth’s cosmic time clocks and made Moedim or appointed times when heaven and earth would touch each other. Before the fall, God walked with Adam and Eve in the cool of the evening. Their fellowship was continuous. But as soon as Adam and Eve sinned, heaven and earth parted company. The dimensions were separated and sinful man could no longer simply walk and talk with God in his sinful state. The problem was that in time nobody knew about heaven’s cosmic time clock and the appointed times when we would have access to God.

                So when God called a people out of the pagan Egyptian world system, one of the things He did was to make them aware of these cosmic appointed times. God set them up as feast days and Sabbaths and just as it says in Genesis 1:14, these cosmic events were timed by the sun, moon and stars. The sun would mark the years and the moon would mark the months and so the cycles of the moon would tell Israel where they were in time. They could set their spiritual clocks so to speak by the New Moons and they could mark time in 7s as each 6 day week ended with a seventh day of rest called the Sabbath.

                I would like to say that a big part of Israel’s blessing in every aspect of life was made abundant simply because their timing chain had been adjusted to where earth was at the peak of its compression exactly when heaven’s spark, sparked and this is how God set up Israel to be blessed as they observed the appointed times and Sabbaths. God was realigning earth and heaven, giving Israel the keys to the appointed times.

                Notice if you will that when Israel would go into idolatry, their “timing chain” would get out of time with heaven’s spark, and God took it so seriously, that He would send them into exile or captivity so that the land could have its Shemitah or Sabbath rests.

                The coming millennium then will be a time when among other things, God will put the whole world back into timing with heaven. And this, along with Yeshua’s ruling the nations with a rod of iron, will go a long way in restoring the earth and its people to the eternal purposes of God.

                So when the 7^th or Sabbath millennium is over, it will be the end of time as we know it. We will then go back to the continuous fellowship with God that Adam and Eve had enjoyed before the fall and as it says, God will be all in all. In other words, the heavenly dimension and the physical dimension will be reunited. God will be in the center of everything so that the physical universe will become once again self-correcting and entropy or decay will no longer exist.

                You see, this whole phenomenon of decay and entropy and death has occurred simply because the dimensions of heaven and the physical universe were separated by our sin. Naturally without God’s infinite power directly sustaining our physical universe everything started running down and God set that running down time to 6000 years. He set our cosmic clocks to 6000 years.

                So here we stand at the end of cosmic time and what do we see? We see the natural systems of this world breaking down. Nature is fluctuating wildly. The sun is even throwing off coronal ejections and flashes of energy that threaten our planet. We are in a solar minimum cycle that may become worse than any previous cycles (according to the Bible) and this solar minimum weakens earth’s electromagnetic shields so that we become more vulnerable to a host of cosmic rays of all kinds. And these cosmic rays entering our planet unchecked are turned into molten matter at the center of our earth causing expansion so that the earth’s crust is buckling and cracking. We see this in the unprecedented number of new volcanoes sprouting up all over the place.

                But the nations are in an uproar as well and society is becoming unhinged as people reject God. Our financial empires are teetering on the brink of collapse and the nations are gearing up for war. We have reached the time of the end so that every system on earth is approaching an extinction level event.

                Earth is in the throes of its final violent shaking as we move into the final years of God’s cosmic time clock. This is what Revelation is talking about and not only the book of Revelation but the entire Bible is obsessed with this subject of the “Day of the Lord.” It is a time like no other, just as Yeshua told us it would be. And it is not a result of God throwing a temper tantrum. No! He set an appointed time for sin to run its course. He set our cosmic clocks for 6000 years, after which Yeshua, who created this world in the first place, will come and restore all things and to reset our time clocks to match heaven’s.  He could do it all  Himself with a wink of His eye, but He wants us to understand. He wants heaven and earth to live in perfect harmony. He wants man to once again fulfill the role for which he was created. And this goes back to God’s eternal purposes.

                David pulled back the veil on these purposes a little when he said: “What is man that Thou dost take thought of him? And the son of man that Thou dost care for him? Yet thou hast made him a little lower than God and dost crown him with glory and majesty. Thou dost make him to rule over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet.” Ps. 8:4-6.

                God created mankind to rule over His physical universe, but we could only do so, in unity with Him. As mere physical beings such a job became impossible. We must be temples of the living God and then He will empower us to rule over the works of His hands once again. But the seventh millennium will be our training under the leadership of Yeshua Himself, for we must learn how to live by God’s eternal principles.

                Now do you see what Paul is saying in Romans 8: 19-23?

                “For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.”

                Oh that the church would come to understand the plans and purposes of God so that even now we could begin to function on all cylinders in unity with heaven. To the extent that we ignore the appointed times of the Lord, to that extent we remain more pagan than Christian and I believe that God has in recent times set signs in the sun, moon and stars in coordination with His appointed times so that we will get the message.

                God is calling out His remnant people so that He can begin to link heaven and earth together again. It is no accident that we are becoming aware of His appointed times at this point in history.

                Time as we know it is grinding to an end and God is preparing us to live on His time and not our own. When that happens, then the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. Isa. 11:9

                Since heaven operates outside of time, God set up appointed times when heaven would touch earth. This is why throughout history certain events have tended to occur on these appointed times. Sometimes these appointed times are for fellowship and worship, while sometimes they are intended for mid-course correction. And since the fall feasts form the outline of end time events, we would do well to understand them.