God is not bound by man’s time

     This teaching will go very deep very quick and might possibly make you reconsider everything you thought that you knew about the order of how things occur.   Please take your “time” to let this sink in and see what the Lord would say through it.   I encourage you to seek God about His timing in everything.

     The timing of God is an interesting thing indeed.   The Greeks had 2 words for time.   There was chronos which refers to the chronological sequence of time.  They also used kairos which is best described as referring to the time between time.     Man kind (the human race) has always operated on chronos time.   We hold to the sequence that 1 comes first and then 2 followed by 3.   God however often at times will operate on chronos time but equally will operate in the Kairos moment.  This has the potential to completely mess with our minds and upset everything that we know and believe about time.   It is hard to wrap our mind around the idea that 1..2..3 could be the order but so could 1..3..2 or even 3..1..2 all depending on how God worked through it.   This is where we start to get deep and your brain starts to hurt.  Hang in there.  It’s worth it...lol.

     God does not operate in man’s (human) chronological order.   He does not operate in mans idea of time and often operates outside of the confinement of time.  In Revelations 1:8 we read ““I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.””  In Revelations 22:13 God says “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”  In these scriptures we read that God is both the beginning and the end at the exact same time.   Both the beginning and the end are occurring and existing and happening at the exact same chronological moment.   And to go even deeper, this is continually occurring.  When God shows up in a church service, personal prayer time or any other time of your life you are confronted with the beginning and the end both contained and working at the same moment in our chronological time.   Did you catch that?   The beginning and end of all things are occurring at the same moment within God.   Yesterday the beginning and end and all that is in between were occurring at the same time.   At this very moment all of time is actively occurring and in the future the same is and will occur.

     Look at it this way.  Through every generation there have been movies about time travel.   They are a flesh oriented attempt to address the idea of traveling through time and the consequences of changing the past and the benefit of knowing of things to come.   One such shinning example of this is the Back To The Future Trilogy.  In these movies they travel to the past and future thus altering the present.   From our human mind set we process understanding things of the past and future to be much like these movies depict.  Mankind has always addressed time from the confines of the chronos.  All of that being said the point I am getting to is this.   God does not need a time machine.   At this very moment He is present here in the now and He is at the same time present in the past and in the future.  God is everywhere and at every time at the same time.  If we could only grasp the concept that God is in our past, in our future and in the present all at the same together here at this very moment it would adjust how we pray and respond to things going on both around us physically and spiritually.  A new Light is shed on God and our interaction in the spirit world as we begin to understand that like man spirits are not omnipresent and thus can not be at every place every time but God is not bound by that same time.  To go a little deeper consider that this same God lives inside us once we have accepted Him into our hearts as Lord and savior.  Yes the God of the universe who is not confined by chronos time resides inside of us.   

     Another example of God operating outside of the confines of mans time is found in Mathew 8 as we read of Jesus’s fulfillment of Isaiah 53.  “When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick. This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “He took up our infirmities and bore our diseases.””

Matthew 8:16-17.  This was in reference to Isaiah 53:4-5 which reads...“Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.”  Let’s pause here for a moment and look at this.   Isaiah 53 is prophesying to the crucifixion of Christ on the cross and what was to come through that act.   Yet in Mathew 8 it says that Jesus (who was very much alive) did those things to fulfill that prophesy.  So Christ fulfilled what was prophesied to come through His death on the cross before He died on the cross.   In chronological order it would be 1. Isaiah prophesied of the crucifixion of Christ.  2. Christ is crucified and 3. That which was accomplished on the cross and was prophesied about was fulfilled.   Yet in Gods timing the order went 1. Prophesy(beginning), 3. Fulfillment (end), and then 2. Crucifixion (middle).    

     When we look at Christ dying on the cross we know that he bore the weight and judgement of every sin that had been or ever would be committed.   This takes on a whole new light if we consider that He was in the past, present  and future all at that very moment and thus He truly bore every sin to be committed.  When you come and repent before the Lord and plead His blood over the wrongs you have committed it is not an old blood sacrifice that you are calling on.  We often take this sacrifice for granted and think it was done and so when we feel convicted it will always be there to fall on to repent.  The sacrifice of Christ on the cross is big enough to cover us when we miss the mark.  We begin to see that the moment of the cross, the moment of sin and the moment of repentance are occurring simultaneously in the Lord at that very moment.   In a sense looking at it this way moves the cross from something that happened way off in the past to a place of being something that is occurring here and now.   I wonder if the body of Christ truly grasped ahold of this concept if there might be a lessening of the choices that were made to fulfill petty fleshly desires because they may begin to realize that in the act of sin they are actively putting spikes in His hands.  Likewise it is equally as powerful to realize that while we were sinning He was providing the payment for that sin.

     When we go into spiritual battle we don’t fight to a place of victory, we fight from a place of victory.  How is this possible? To fight from a place of victory?  It works like this.   We are fighting in a spiritual battle in a spiritual world.  Being that we are human God resides in us once we have asked Him in.   The God who is in us is currently in this battle and in the time of victory at the same time.   Therefore we have the victory (in Christ) that is in the future occurring at the same time as we are fighting the battle.  That victory is ours so we are fighting this spiritual battle with the strength and vigor of victors and from that place we fight the battle.

     The prophetic is greatly effected by this as well.  Because God is actively in every possible future He knows what is to come or what might possibly come if action is or is not taken.   When the Lord reveals to us concerning things of the past present or future It is awesome to think that He is actively in that moment and revealing it to us.   To say it another way.  God is at this moment in the future and comes to this moment to tell us about it.  To us in the flesh it blows our mind when God speaks to us concerning future events and let’s us discern things from the past.   Remember however that God is not confined to man’s time line and order.  He does not need a time machine.  He is actively in the past present and future at this moment.  So in His grace and mercy He will take what Is going on in the future (that for Him is now) and drop it onto our chronological time line in a time that is in advanced so that we have time to prepare or pray and intercede.   Once again we find that God steps out of His realm and applies Himself to mans realm for the sake of His creation.  Much like He did on the cross.

    Another area that we see the Kairos moment take effect is in miraculous healings.  How is it that a person with a missing eyeball can be moved on by God and a new eyeball created in the empty socket in that very moment?  This is an example of a healing that has happened many times in different ministries and yet how does it occur?   In the womb the eye ball and development of the eye sight of a baby takes nearly the entire 9 months.   So how does God make it occur in a moment?  It’s a miracle.  Yes absolutely it is.   These kind of miracles are often described and viewed as God accelerated time of something occurring.  Understanding that the eyeball can even be recreated by God is a miracle and act of God that I do not want to take away from.  God is amazing.  The eyeball in this situation goes through the process of fully growing and developing but in a God accelerated  time frame.   God being present in the future where the eye is already developed brings it to this moment and time thus causing instant healing.     

     I know that these concepts are not easy to wrap our brain around.  We are conditioned to continue to look at things from a chronos point of view (being we are human and live in a human world) and so the Kairos moment truly makes our brain freeze up and hurt.  I would encourage each of us to seek God concerning the kairos moment and see what He may want to do through you in the moment.

False Prophet...or is he?

     Today particularly in America the standard is instant result.  We have fast food restaurants that that take less than 3 min from the time you order to the time your food is handed (hot) to you.  We have remote starters that start our car and warm them so they are thawed out by the time we actually walk outside to leave.   We have the ability to have hundreds of TV channels at our finger tips instantly.   We can search practically anything and find a wealth of knowledge concerning that subject in a matter of seconds.   We have frozen (fully prepared) dinners that we can microwave and within minutes are ready to be eaten.   So the question is, how has this microwave mentality effected our view of prophesy.
     It is very common that a prophet will give a prophesy and if it does not happen within the next day or 2 then he (the so called prophet) must have missed it.   Some of us who are more "patient" in the Lord will give a gracing time span of a whole year.   If by then it has not come to pass we declare the "so called prophet" a false prophet.   We pass their name around and declare from the stage saying "don't trust this guy because he obviously does not hear from the Lord and must be a false prophet."
...or is he?...
     I ask you at this time to consider Isaiah.  He gave many prophesies.  One of these prophesies was about the virgin birth of Jesus.  The fulfillment of this prophesy did not occur until nearly 700 years later.  Like Isaiah many true prophets of God see way into the future and see things that may not even be able to be comprehended by others at the time they are seen.  By today's microwave standard Isaiah would have been labeled a false prophet.
     Understand that I am not trying to in some way say that there are not false prophets.   The truth is that there are a bunch of false prophets.  In fact the majority of people claiming to be "prophets"are false prophets or simply don't understand who and what a prophet is.   What I am hinting at here is that we should not judge the legitimacy of someone who declares a prophesy based simply on if it comes true in a short span of time.   What we should be judging the word, that was delivered, on is the word of God.  1 John 4:1 says this.  “Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.”
‭So if the prophetic word delivered lines up with Gods word but has not come to pass yet then hold onto it and remain open to it until the Lord brings it to pass.  Don't reject it and void your ability to receive it because it did not come to pass that moment.   Again remember how long it took for the prophesy of Jesus birth to come to pass.  Also keep in mind that the word may come to pass but not in the way that you had conjured it up in your mind.
     A small but sad bunny rabbit trail here.  Out of curiosity of the results I Googled "how to test the validity of a prophesy?" And the top 10 hits did not even remotely mention that we should test the spirit of the word given with the word of God.   In fact surprisingly many gave scriptural references to judging the prophet (individual giving the word).  The entire reason for this is to make sure that wolves in sheep clothing are not speaking to the flock.   That being said, it is God who reserves the right to judge and condemn or lift up individuals in the five fold ministry.   If you find the prophesy to not line up with the word you reject the word.  If the words given continue to be contrary to the word of God then stop listening.  Stop asking the individual for personal words.   Stop inviting them to prophesy to your congregation.   Stop giving them a voice in your life.   Also remember though that it is not your place to bring a verdict of condemnation to that  person publicly.   As scripture says first go to them in private.   If they won't listen take a brother.  If they still will not listen take them to the leadership of the body then if still no result remove them for the safety of the flock.   What it does not say is stand on the stage and declare to the tv camera your opinion of the proclaimed prophet.  This is out of order and it may just be that you are passing judgement based on your microwave mentality.
     I encourage each of you to judge prophesy based on Gods way which is to judge the spirit of the word given.  I also encourage you, that if the prophesy lines up with scripture, to give God time to bring it to pass.  This will help you receive things God is speaking to you and reject that which is false.