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Chapter 2.
ETERNATY PAST TILL THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST.
This period on the timeline will only be made known to us if it is God’s will for us humans to know what happened during this time. When God and his Son Jesus made the heavens and the earth and all the other stars and planets and celestial bodies we can observe today through our telescopes and space observation stations and other things, is only based on some or other theory or hypothesis. The most accepted one by scientists is this theory around 13.7 billion years ago, everything in the entire universe was condensed in an infinitesimally small holy angularity, a point of infinite denseness and heat. Suddenly, an explosive expansion began, ballooning our universe outwards faster than the speed of light. Thinking Hypothesis theory, there should be matter, space, time and energy. My first question is where in the universe was there these conditions to exists. What forces created the infinite density, what was the heat source, if there was no light where did the speed of the expansion came from and first where did the matter come from? Did it just evolve like some other theories suggest. What is important for us to understand at this point is that God is timeless, not restricted to any dimension or space and matterless. To God one day is like 1000 years to us, and a thousand years of us to him as a single day. I don’t think our human comprehension will ever understand this idee.
Can we prove that God exits? What evidence do we have for our belief? Those who believe in God have many different- often contradictory ideas about God’s nature, The Bible says this about God;” To whom then will you liken Me, or to whom shall I be equal? Says the Holy One, lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things, who brings out their host by number; He calls them all by name, by the greatness of His might and the strength of His power; not one is missing.” Isaiah 40 25-26.
The Bible reveals a God who provides evidence of His existence, as we will see in an article by examining seven proofs of God’s existence.
Proof 1: Creation demands a Creator. The Hubble telescope continues to
reveal previously unknown galaxies. King David asked God “When I consider
Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the starts, which You
have ordained, what is man the You are mindful of him, and the son of man
that You visit him?” Psalm 8;3-4.
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Proof 2: Life Demands a Life-Giver. Scientists have tried in vain to create life
from non-life, or even from mixtures of soups of laboratory chemicals. They have all failed.
Proof 3: Laws Demand a Lawgiver. Science has discovered that our physical
universe appeared from nothing, but how did this happen. Science cannot explain the origin of the universe, but there must be an answer. The Bible simply says God created it.
Proof 4: Design Demands a Designer, Not only do we find predictable
physical laws throughout the universe, but we also find tremendous evidence of intelligent design. The human body, for example, shows insurmountable evidence of design.
Proof 5: Fulfilled Prophecy. Regular readers of Tomorrow’s World are familiar
with the framework of Bible prophecy. Hundreds of prophecies given thousands of years ago have been fulfilled, are right now being fulfilled in the years soon to come.
Proof 6: Answered Prayer. Sceptics and doubters will not experience this
proof, unless they begin to study the Bible and meet its challenges
Proof 7: A way of life that Works! The history of the world is generally the
history of mankind living its own way, apart from the instructions of its Creator. Human beings have experimented, and continue to experiment, with man-made institutions of education, science, government, business and entertainment. And have made no progress.
The word eternity means unending time, a state to which time has no application, timelessness. The encounter between time and eternity. The theology meaning of the word means endless life after death; immortal souls destined for eternity. The origin of the word in Latin is aeternus meaning without beginning or end. The old French name for it is eternite and from that the English eternal and later eternity. These definitions of eternity give a bit of meaning to the concept of been timeless, a period without a beginning and without an end. Something our human brains cannot comprehend. Mostly because we are captured in three dimensions with a small exposure to the fourth dimension of spirit or thought or consciousness. The more common definition of our fourth dimension is time. Einstein was one of the first to define length, width and height by adding time as the fourth dimension to our lives. Where are we in time? Our time on earth is not eternal because we have all a beginning at birth and an end at death. It was God’s intension for us humans to have an eternal life because He did not tell Adam and Eve not to eat from the tree of life, but just not to eat of the tree who would let us surely die. We know Adam chose death by eating from Satan’s tree and that is why Satan is the father of death. The only way to eternal life now is through God’s Son, Jesus Christ.
We can have a bit of a view of moments in this period of time as captured in two passages in the Bible namely John 17 :5-8 when Jesus was praying before the crucifixion “And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory 11
which I had with thee before the world was. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gives me out of the world: Mine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me,”
Also from Proverbs 8: 22-31 “The Lord brought me forth as the first of his works, before his deeds of old; I was formed long ages ago, at the very beginning, when the world came to be. When there were no watery depths, (The first-time water depths was mentioned was when it describes the way the city of Tyre was destroyed. The city who belonged to the King and Ruler of Tyre). I was given birth, when there were no springs overflowing with water; (used during the first Luciferian flood and the third ’Noah's floods) before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was given birth, before he made the world or its fields or any of the dust of the earth. I was there when he set the heavens in place, when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep, when he established the clouds above and fixed securely the fountains of the deep, when he gave the sea its boundary so the waters would not overstep his command, and when he marked out the foundations of the earth. Then I was constantly at his side. I was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing in his whole world and delighting in mankind. Clearly in both instands, it was Jesus telling us a little bit about the time before and during when God made the heavens and the earth. He carries on and say this to us to remember” Proverbs 8:32. “Now then, my children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways. Listen to my instruction and be wise; do not disregard it. Blessed is those who listen to me, watching daily at my doorway, For those who find me find life and receive favour from the Lord. But those who fail to find me harm themselves; all who hate me love death.” And we all know who this was. Jesus.
In this period of time, Jesus was born as the one and only Son of God. When and how, we will not know.
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