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Out of Phase Timelines

God is Not Bound by Our Timelines

I am starting to notice a repeating pattern in scripture that I plan to write more about. There is a mismatch in timelines that can be really confusing. There are several happenings in scripture which do not line up chronologically with happenings on earth. I believe that God wants us to understand reality and I will attempt to unravel this starting now. Lord willing I will write about this extensively in the future.

I believe that Satan takes advantage of this mismatch to confuse us. He also uses this mismatch as evidence to accuse God of lying when events don’t line up. He did this with Eve at the garden, ‘you won’t die’ he said, accusing God of lying and exaggerating.

Five Examples of Spiritual Timelines Not Matching Physical Timelines:

  1. In Genesis, God said that when and if Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge they would die. They did eat yet they did not drop dead physically for many hundreds of years later. Their spiritual death occurred before their physical death.
  2. There is much teaching that all of humanity died on the cross with Jesus Christ (as far as God is concerned). Yet here we are more than 2000 years later still living in the flesh. Humanity apart from God ended on the cross yet humanity continues for now in the flesh.
  3. Salvation occurs when a person turns from his old life of sin, accepts death and resurrection in Christ, displayed  by baptism. He is born again yet living in the flesh and even dying before the final resurrection of the body.
  4. The body of death that the Christian lives in, sometimes leads us to sin however God does not consider it. Sin is not held against us, as far as God is concerned that side of us was killed with Christ. He sees the life of Christ, begun at the resurrection of Christ when he looks at us. He is looking not at our sin in time but at Jesus’ blood poured out in eternity.
  5. Jesus said that Lazarus’ sickness was not unto death. He waited until he was dead for more than four days then came. Beyond all hope by Lazarus’ timeline yet not by Gods.

Out of Phase Timelines

As far as God is concerned things happen in the spirit and when they happen physically is a separate issue.

There are many more examples of this that I plan to write about elsewhere. However it can be seen that spiritual timelines do not necessarily overlap physical timelines on the earth. When things happen in the spiritual realm they do not necessarily also happen in the physical realm. It can take many years of a delay.

There is a mismatch in phase of timelines. This mismatch can be really confusing if one does not pay attention to Jesus Christ.

Similar to this from Frank Viola.

More from my Reality Series of posts.

Similar content: Nine Paradoxes of the Christian life.

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Our Open Heaven

Our Open Heaven is A Person

I have been taught that an open heaven must be kept open by a church praising and singing and worshipping God. But I have found a much more effective way of this.

Keep Jesus Christ your absolute obsession. Knowing him, teaching him, proclaiming him, and revealing him your supreme life-center. This works in private and in corporate spiritual life.

Doing this with other people is the foundation of genuine church life. Jesus called it ecclesia and it is essentially just gathering around him and knowing him together.

When I started posting daily on this site I was a little concerned about having enough to say. But as I hear Jesus I write and transfer it to this site. The work is getting it on here and making it readable.

But staying fixated on Jesus brings a constant flow of Gods insight about almost everything. I cant possibly write it all down. I could spend a life-time writing daily and not even scratch the surface concerning Jesus Christ. All that he is and has done and will do is far, far beyond me.

Jesus Christ is our open heaven.

For more on this topic click here.

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Another Look at ‘Talents’ Part 2

Ok So What?

So maybe I convinced you in Part 1 about this parable, in context Jesus was talking about money. Not about abilities given at birth; what’s the big deal? Why does this matter? Well it certainly matters for those who Jesus refers to as ‘the least of these.’

This parable has also been called the Parable of the Minas. As I showed in part 1 to Jesus talents meant a weight of money (silver, gold). Similar to our phrase pound of gold today. It was not until the 12th century that the English word talent began to be used as aptitude or ability.

So to Jesus talents meant a certain amount of money. Not natural abilities and gifting’s.

The vast majority of protestants or Catholics in the west if they’ve spent any time in Sunday school will tell you the popular interpretation. They will teach that the meaning of this parable is about using our natural abilities and not burying them. They will tell you the point is not about giving money to the least of these Jesus’ brethren. This is very wrong and opposes what Jesus intended.

Gospel of The Kingdom

To enter the new humanity in Jesus Christ we must die to the old humanity. Even the seeming good things, our sin, our natural talents and our natural weaknesses. All die on the cross of Christ, buried with him in baptism. This new humanity is the body of Jesus Christ on the earth. This new humanity is then given new gifts, new ‘talents’, new abilities by the Spirit of Jesus. All being given with the purpose and the functioning of the body of Jesus Christ in view.

Money given to us in excess of meeting our needs is intended for the body of Christ. The body of believers is the storehouse of God, our giving is also intended for equality within the body (see 2 Cor 8). And our giving is intended for the poor among us and even outside (Matthew 25:40). We work with our hands in order to be a blessing to others financially.

Storing up wealth and refusing to give to the least of these is the same as burying money. 

God Provides New Talents/Gifts – As The Spirit Wills

1 Corinthains 12:7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 8 For to one is given the word of wisdom through the spirit; and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit; and to another the gifts of healing by the one Spirit. 10 And to another the effecting of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another distinguishing of spirits; to another various kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as he wills.

So God destroys all that is of us, he asks us to lay down our old life, the sin with the abilities. The wickedness with the ‘gifts.’ Then he distributes to us new gifts as he wants for the common good of the body of Christ. Sure he can use any natural abilities if he wants, but only as he wants.

To read more on this topic read The Ministry of Judas two part post series.

Do you give to the poor?

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