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.
