Time and Eternity

Narrator: Chris Genthree
 •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 10
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God inhabits not time but eternity: “Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place” (Isa. 57:1515For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. (Isaiah 57:15)). Time was created for the first man Adam and his race into which all of us were born. Unless born again, a man lives only for time, while knowing that his time will end in death, for all connected with the first creation ends in death. Such a man, by God’s holy judgment, is cast with death and hades into the lake of fire, which is the second death. In this state he spends eternity. The believer is born again and receives eternal life and shares with Christ, the last Adam, his part in a new creation which is designed for eternity with God. Time is just the means God is using to accomplish His eternal purpose: “The mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: to the intent that now  ... might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, according to the eternal purpose which He purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Eph. 3:9-119And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: 10To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, 11According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: (Ephesians 3:9‑11)). Now, we who have eternal life and belong to a new creation are to live with God’s view of time.