Time has always been a mystery to me and others. I was thinking tonight though that time may be actually just that we have a beginning and end in this world to the planet, to plants, animals, to our lives, etc. In eternity there is no beginning and end. We do not get older but stay the same. We still progress from one thing to another in heaven but we don't age, nothing ends, nothing ages. Is it as simple as that?
I was watching a utube video of Charlie Kirk saying that the gospel given out now is not complete as it was in the past. This is what I have been seeing. Generally a lot of people don't know what sin is now, or what they have been saved from. The real gospel is much more profound and complete when we are first presented with the problem - that we have a just God who is Holy and cannot be in the presence of sin. He tells us all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Because of that we would all will face judgment for that sin. But he solved that problem for us by coming to this world to live a perfect life so he could be the perfect sacrificial lamb that God requires to remove the sin of those who look to Him and not themselves for salvation. That is the love of God in action. Not that he would just save us to live with him eternally but he did that at His cost. Our judgment was placed upon Him. He suffered and died an agonizing death so that we are never to know that judgement that we deserve. We who trust in Him are now righteous and have an inheritance of living with Him eternally instead of living eternally in damnation. His love not only saved us from ourselves but made us His children to praise Him forever in heaven and eventually on the new earth.
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He never had to die being Eternal God but He chose to take on a human body and suffer our sin and the death of that body as His cost for our freedom. The freedom of those who had rebelled for all he stood for. We who dead and never knew that our destiny was into the pit of hell, were made alive so that we could finally understand where we were going to be going without Him, understand He had changed our future and given us a destiny of life instead of death and gave us, most importantly, the ability to now understand His Glory and Majesty. Without His opening our eyes and giving us life we would have none of this.
Population and the coming of Emmanuel.
I was thinking about when Christ came to this earth. We tend to think today that the earth was as populated as it is now but it wasn't. Doesn't it make sense that Christ would come into our world after the history of Israel had had enough time to show itself and show its failings and God's working with it but wouldn't Christ come before the greatest population growth since His work was going beyond Israel and into the whole world. Why? so that his important work would grow as the populations grow. The gospel was spread by a small number of people, His disciples, into a small world and grew as the world grew. The beginning of earth was the beginning of God's relationship with people and for that time was setting up that world for Christ to come at the right time to correct the chaos we had gotten ourselves into and create a history of His Story.
