Jesus Christ is the door. There is no other way to union with God. To wade through the debris and brambles, I need more light. More light, more understanding.

My job is to be a bridge, an evangelist, a reconciler of God and men(mankind). So in order to do this, I need to understand the Divine Intention - God in Christ reconciling the world (all of humanity) to Himself.

John 10:18 Authority comes from a commandment, an injunction. Authority is never unattached. It is always given for a purpose and that is connected to an order or job. This authority I received...to do this or that. Jesus said in Matthew 28:18-19: All authority in Heaven and Earth has been given to ME,.... going then, make disciples. His authority is also our authority to make disciples etc. In this we operate in His authority.

God and Time

In the beginning God spoke everything into existence. The first thing on earth He spoke into existence was Light.  This first day was NOT a day like our 24 hour day since the sun, moon and stars from where we get our day, month, year and seasons were only created on the fourth “day”. Since He created light and separated it from the darkness and called the light “day” and the darkness “night” it is safe to conclude that a “day” is a period of light that is bookended by darkness. It comes out of darkness and when light is no longer there it is night. Notice that darkness was there. It was never created. Light was created and separated from darkness and it was called “Day”.

Genesis 1:3 God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light".

Since our human perception of time is days, months, seasons and years, since we live in hours and have calibrated our lives as such, God deals with us in these constraints. He promised Abram a son in a year’s time. He speaks of three days until the resurrection. Yet we would be mistaken to squeeze God into our perception of time. He created time and for this reason as a start cannot be constrained by it. We cannot limit God by time.

Time is relative to this physical universe. It is one of the seven fundamental physical quantities in the International System of Units. Time is used to define other quantities — such as velocity — so defining time in terms of such quantities would result in circularity of definition. [Base Quantities are those quantities on the basics of which other quantities can be expressed. The seven base quantities of the International System of Quantities (ISQ) are: 1. Length, 2. Time, 3. Mass, 4. Temperature, 5. Amount of substance or number of moles. 6. Electric current and 7. Luminous intensity]

A year is the amount of time it takes the earth to circle the sun once. A month is the amount of time it takes for the moon to circle around the earth and a full 24 hour day is the amount of time it takes for the earth to rotate on its own axle. Earth time is for these reasons related to the Sun and Moon.

Earth is split up into a number of time zones. Most time zones are exactly one hour apart, and by convention compute their local time as an offset from UTC or GMT. Yet, God is in each and every zone, all at the same time. What does this mean? It means that I in America, my family in Afrika, my family in New Zealand, my brother in Istanbul, friends in Greece, Israel and Thailand can all pray at the same time to a God who is there. He is always there. And that brings us to the tapestry of the marriage between time and space. How God relates to space we will attempt to deal with later. Psalms 139

Time-keeping is coordinated at an international level. The basis for scientific time is a continuous count of seconds based on atomic clocks around the world, known as the International Atomic Time (TAI). Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is an older standard, adopted starting with British railways in 1847. Using telescopes instead of atomic clocks, GMT was calibrated to the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich in the UK.

Time has historically been closely related with space, the two together merging into space time in Einstein's special relativity and general relativity. According to these theories, the concept of time depends on the spatial reference frame of the observer and the human perception as well as the measurement by instruments such as clocks, are different for observers in relative motion.

In general, the Judeo-Christian concept, based on the Bible, is that time is linear, beginning with the act of creation by God. The general Christian view is that time will end with the end of the sun, moon and earth. Time appears to have a direction – the past lies behind, while the future lies ahead. For the most part the laws of physics do not specify an arrow of time, and allow any process to proceeds both forward and in reverse. The direction of the arrow of time is sometimes arbitrary. The Bible teaches that God is the same, yesterday, today and forever. (Heb 13:8) This can be easily understood if we view God as outside of and greater than time itself.

God is the eternal God. He is the great “I AM” existing in the eternal present. Since He is outside of time, He is in all time at the same time. He is yesterday, today and tomorrow all at the same time. The Bible says that a day is like a thousand years to God and a thousand years like a day. It speaks of time as appointed time, opportune time, time of life, time as a specific time, time as an occurrence, time as a beginning and end, and many more concepts. And in them all is God.  There is no time that God is not in. There is no place that He cannot be. Neither does time affect Him like it does us. God does not get old.

Understanding God as ever-present, ever in the now but also in the future and past gives an understanding of otherwise hard to understand theological concepts:

Such as predestination: If God is in the past, present and future all at the same time He can know the future before it happens and because of this have foreknowledge. Knowing that we will choose to believe in Him, He predestines us.

We can understand how the blood of Jesus shed more than 2000 years ago can still heal and safe and deliver because God in the eternal now, sees the crucifixion at the very moment He sees you and I.

We can understand how God can call those things which are not as though they are because He sees it already done. He can tell us the future since He is already there.

Simplistically explained, it is as a human viewing an ant’s progression and being able to see where it came from, where it is and where it is going all at once.

Time is relative to our being. God relates to time different than humans do. Remember how He stopped time for Moses and Israel and turned it back for Hezekiah. God is very much in control of time and outside of time.

The eternal day that lays ahead for us as believers, day since there will be no night, will initiate us into God’s concept of time. Then we will be as He is, complete in our transformation, into His image, one with Him.