We live in the
midst of time and so we have a clear past, present and future tense. But God is
outside time and so has no past present or future. He is present in all time.
To give an
example, an ant occupies a small area of space. When a boot comes down to crush
him, he finds that changing his space to the adjoining space does not help as the
boot is there also! So God is in all spaces and there is no place where He is
not there. So also He is in all time.
So how does a
person who is outside time communicate to a person who is within time? That is
the challenge of scripture.
When God says “For
whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” it also means
you are saved and you were saved. Similarly when God says “He that believeth on
him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because
he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” it is referring
to the present condemnation of the judgement of condemnation which will be at
the judgement seat in the future.
We also need
to realise that the fact that God knows the choices you will make in the future
does not take away your responsibility for the choices you make.
So God knowing
the choices you are going to make, begins to work in your life from before you
are born to prepare you for the good work He has planned for you to do (Eph
2:10) in the present.
If we
understand this concept we will find that many of the difficulties of
interpreting the Bible lie predestination or freewill, once saved always saved versus
you can lose your salvation, etc. disappear. Even the question what happens to
you when you die if the judgement is in the future vanishes if we go to a place
outside time.
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