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Revelation 1:8
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"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty."
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One of my favorite topics is time. Time is itself the foundation of change. But God does not change, nor does His Authority.
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John 1:1
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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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We know that Christ is the Word of God, the Word being God's Authority. Even when the world and the heavens collapse, this Authority is the same.
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Matthew 24:35
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Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
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All of creation came through this authority. And when the foundation of the new creation is set in place, that same authority will be what the new creation is founded on.
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2 Peter 3:10
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But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.
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So Christ is not bound by time. As a matter of fact, time itself, that is what is in motion, came through his authority, so there by, is under his authority. In the Bible there are a few examples of this. Two examples are favorites I like to share with others.
The first example is when God turned back time:
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Isaiah 38:4-8
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Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah:
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“Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life.
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And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.
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“ ‘This is the Lord’s sign to you that the Lord will do what he has promised:
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I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.’ ” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.
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So God can add or take away from our lifespan, that is not a surprise. But it does defeat the idea of fate being laid out in completeness. As God added fifteen years to the existence of Hezekiah, what was completed in those fifteen years was added to Hezekiah.
Then we have the shadow of the sun moving back up the stairs. In order for this to happen, the rotation of the earth had to be altered, or, time itself is a variable beyond our understanding of physics. It is most likely that Isaiah was witness to time being altered through God's authority. This is just a great example of how great our God is.
When I was a child, my friend and I were spirited across half the city in a moment. It was over two miles, and the distance itself did not exist in time. We walked back, it took almost three hours. This also was the power of God, under His authority.
The second example in the Bible that I would like to share, is something I was shown by the Holy Spirit that is not in any teachings I have known. It is also a part of the New Testament that not every Bible has in it. And I was shown these passages are directly related to a part of the Old Testament:
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John 8:2-11
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At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them.
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The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group
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and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
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In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women.Now what do you say?”
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They were using this question as a trap,in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.
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When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”
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Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
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At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there.
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Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
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“No one, sir,” she said.
“Then neither do I condemn you,”Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”
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Why was Jesus writing on the ground with his finger? Ever wondered?
I was shown this is why:
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Daniel 5:3-6
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So they brought in the gold goblets that had been taken from the temple of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them.
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As they drank the wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.
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Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote.
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His face turned pale and he was so frightened that his legs became weak and his knees were knocking.
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It was the hand of Jesus. That is what I was shown. And so while the Pharisees were looking to trap him, in order to accuse him, he was scribing on a wall generations before he was born. What he scribed was:
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Daniel 5:22-31
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“But you, Belshazzar, his son, have not humbled yourself, though you knew all this.
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Instead, you have set yourself up against the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways.
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Therefore he sent the hand that wrote the inscription.
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“This is the inscription that was written:
MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN
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“Here is what these words mean:
Mene: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
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Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.
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Peres: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”
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Then at Belshazzar’s command, Daniel was clothed in purple, a gold chain was placed around his neck, and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom.
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That very night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians, was slain,
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and Darius the Mede took over the kingdom, at the age of sixty-two.
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Belshazzar, unlike Hezekiah, had his lifetime stripped away from him. Belshazzar set himself up against the Lord of heaven. Just like the Pharisee who were trying to trap Jesus in order to accuse him.
These examples are very small examples that I am using to bring you understanding of what it means to be the Alpha and Omega, the 'was', the 'is', and the 'what is to come'. God is everything, and His authority is in everything.
To God, time is a variable. But we consider time a constant, because our world and our flesh are variable to it. How wondrous.
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