Time Traveler, Part 2

Jesus never changes. In the Revelation given to John, Jesus states four times His supremacy over time.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” - Rev. 1:8

“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last,” - Rev. 1:11

“It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End." - Rev 21:6

"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.” - Rev 22:13

Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet and Omega is the last letter, like our English A and Z. How can someone exist before existence of all? That person would have to be the Creator of all.

In John 8:56-59, the Holy Spirit led John to record a conversation between Jesus and some Jews. The Jews were accusing Jesus of having a demon and Jesus had just finished telling them that He was not a liar like they were. The story picks up with Jesus talking: "'Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.' Then the Jews said to Him, 'You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?' Jesus said to them, 'Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.' Then they took up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by." Here Jesus told them He was the God of their father's by using for Himself the name that the Lord told Moses to tell the children of Israel who He was, I AM. He was not in the past. The past is in Him. He is not in the future. The future is in Him. The same even applies to the present and what lies beyond the whole span of Creation.

This is reiterated in both Genesis 1:1 and John 1:1. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," and "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made."

I actually began to think about this topic during an engineering club where we were watching a movie about string theory. That theory seems to be changing still, but it basically states that the time-space continuum is like a fabric with folds. The folds could bring two close "timelines" together. They were very pro "parallel universe" saying that there were endless realities with us living in each and choosing all the possibilities that could happen. Primarily it states that there is something that holds the universe together like thread. They are calling the thread "dark matter." Now, I'm not saying that I whole-heartedly believe string theory, but I couldn't help but think of all these verses about Jesus while they were talking. I kept saying to myself, "How can they not see that what they are talking about is Jesus?" Jesus is the thread that holds the universe together. He is what they are searching so hard to find.

Paul wrote in Colossians 1:15-17, "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist."

Jesus is sovereign in all things. In Him all things consist. He is the thread holding our lives together. Time is non-existent to Him because all time is simultaneous in Him. He has stepped into time at His will as the pre-incarnate Christ many times, and quietly inhabits every moment of existent time, even future time. Take some time and thank Him for His sovereignty over all, past, present and future.

(to be continued) ---Johnie