Time Traveller

Have you ever noticed how Jesus can be talking about something going on in the present, and then He seems to be somewhere in the future, and then He's talking about something which may or may not be happening now, or has it already happened, or is it still to come?

When talking to His disciples about Jerusalem's impending destruction, Jesus starts out by describing how the Church will be corrupted almost from day one with frauds and shysters in it for the money. Then He slides into things like, “On earth nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. Men will faint from terror, apprehensive of the fearful fate that they see coming upon the earth. There will be great earthquakes, drought and famines in many lands and war without ceasing.” And then He says, “This generation will not pass away until these things have taken place.”

Now, atheists can't figure this out. They say, “Aha! Global warming had not taken place when the disciples were alive so that is a contradiction.” 

Silly, silly people. 

Obviously Jesus is talking about the generation that is living at the time that these things take place – it would appear that it could be our generation.

The point of this post is not the ignorance of atheists, but the strange way that Jesus talks. Actually, the prophets in the Old Testament did the same thing. I'm not sure why they talked like that but I have an idea. I think it has to do with the fact that while He walked and talked for a while on earth, while He lived with us in space and more importantly in time, Jesus really exists “in eternity.” Eternity means outside of time, or more correctly, without time.

For our Creator, everything is in the now.

He sees the end from the beginning.

It allows Him to say to everyone, “Before Abraham was, I Am.”

It allows Him to say to you, “I knew you before the world began.”