Time Traveler, Part 3

Before anything existed, the Trinity was. The Father was always the Father. The Son was always the Son. The Holy Spirit was always the Holy Spirit.

"Then God said, 'Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness....'" - Gen. 1:26 Father, Son, and Spirit were working together from the very beginning.

Before anything existed, all things were known by God. He knew that you would sit down at your computer now. He knew that you would turn the key in your car today. He knew that you would flip the light switch earlier. All this He knew before you were born. All this He knew before "The Beginning." And Jesus is all throughout the old testament just as much as the new. Usually whenever "the Angel of the Lord" is mentioned in the Old Testament, it is referring to an appearance and working of Jesus before He was born.

He talked to Hagar in the wilderness about submission and promise and He saved her and Ishmael. He sent Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, and He stopped Abraham from sacrificing Isaac on the mountain. He appeared to Moses as a burning bush. He was ready to kill Balaam on the road.

Het met Gideon at the wine press and told him to go after the Mideonites. He accepted Gideon's sacrifice on the rock. He met with Minoah and his wife and told them they would have a son, and He accepted their burnt offering.

He gave food and drink to Elijah under the broom tree in the wilderness. He killed 185,000 Assyrians in the night after Hezekiah prayed and asked the Lord for deliverance. He stood before the high priest, Joshua the son of Jehozadak, to rebuke the devil there beside him, and to support Joshua and take away his sin.

These are all events in the life of Jesus, the Son of God, but they happened superior to time before He was even born, showing us that He was before His own birth. It is hard for us to understand that all these things are co-existent to our omnipresent, all-knowing, never-aging, eternal Creator. He is eternal, meaning He fills all time and overflows time with Himself. When the scripture says "in the last days" certain things will happen, it is because God has already experienced it and has revealed it to men. I used the past tense, but time is no constraint to our Eternal God.

He is there in the past. He is here in the present. He is there in the future. And He never changes. Praise our God and Saviour for calling us before the foundation of the world to be His children!

"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever."

(to be continued) ---Johnie