15 Minutes
The Sabbath is the holy day that God set aside for His recognition. It’s a perpetual sign of God’s relationship with His creation. And we are invited to share in its commemoration. Sabbath rest is a summons to practice holiness for eternity in God's presence. It is an act of intentional trust of God's sovereignty over all things. Since God is not bound by time and there will be no night in heaven, how is it that we hear John referring to months...a period of time measured.
Let us reason that we not struggle with acceptance of the power of God. In our sphere of existence there can be no event occuring without time. But God is before even eternity and time and He brought both forth for His most distinct purpose...God will have a people who will master His plan. They will come to know “the Word”.
Their teaching will be absolutely astonishing. No other generation of people ever had the mind that God’s word will produce in these. No other people ever knew truth the way these know truth and no other people ever understood God’s way the way these understand. No other people ever understood the scripture the way these understand the scripture. No other people ever had greater facility with verbal and written communication, and it will be literally astonishing to hear them witness the word of God.
God created events without time, and eternity rolled unmeasured until God’s love was tested. Was the Determinate Counsel an event?
Jeremiah 17:12
“From the beginning”...an event in eternity where time was not. Angels are created beings before time was determined “in the beginning”. And there was war in heaven before the time of the creation of “the world”.
Revelation 12: 7-9
Satan’s fall must have occurred somewhere after the angels were created and before earth was formed where he tempted Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. God the Son was himself the witness of the event before time.
Luke 10:18
Here again must we reason. Why didn’t God say it “was good” the second day of creation? Because it was then that God separated the firmament and the waters. The waters consisting of an ejaculate of sort, urine and semen was the place where the rebellious angels had been cast after the war in heaven. It was part of the providence of God in creation that Satan would be allowed to behold the most crowning act of God...the creation of the earth for Man.
These same castaways recognized the One who expelled them from heaven before ever there was “time” and they begged to not again be cast into the deep.
Luke 8:26-31 Matthew 8:28-31 Mark 1:23-27 Luke 4:41 Genesis 1:1
Please see darkness and waters in the concordance – H2822 and H4325. Job 38:4, 7 Sons of God are beings existing before ever the earth was formed. And these morning stars are brothers. These were attendees to special meetings at the dawn of existence before time. And in God’s providence there is still this distinct purpose.
I John 3:1, 2
What situations and events will occupy our experience in heaven in an essentially timeless existence, where the categories of past, present and future just do not apply? There will be succession, duration, and sequence because from one new moon to another and from one sabbath to another we will come before God. This “all thing new” that God will bring forth is amost wonderful envisioning and inspirational mystery. It is impressive. We know that we will have a pure language, new names, bestowed immortality with phasing bodies with the ability to pass through solid objects not being bound by nature laws. God is going to dwell with us, not among...with. He will touch us. We will have a constant consciousness of the highest understanding of all things. If we could only know of the objective reality of what is coming for us in the eternalage our questions and responses today would be filled with reverent expansion acclaiming the wonderment of God. The invincible purpose of God for His new creation and for His people will be complete when all things are made new and all new things are filled with the glory of the Lord. And as the body of His glory is, so will ours be. This is certain. God is going to make us spiritually and morally new and glorious. And knowing that nothing related to selfishness will exist, what manner of creativity is in the inmost self of God that will be brought forth without comparison to any other thought made audible, made visible. Something so immense and noble and boundlessly powerful is coming for all of us in our relationship with God.
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