All the TIME in the world (part 4)

Part 4 Time is NOW!

[From God’s point of view]

... we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

　Gentle Readers,

I hold along with many that all the time we have is NOW! If we are going to make a difference in the world, change our lives for the better, improve those around us, witness the truth about God, Creation, heaven and life in general. Then when will we start making an observable difference? Time is all we have, talents won’t if not used. Money may buy many things but will that wear out. It is only what you leave behind that will count for something, a word, a thought, a goal, a roan to follow. Time:

Events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

　Time sense in children, men, women

These time sense distortions are, of course, distortions and nothing else, since the rest of the world continues to experience contemporary events within a "normal" time frame. They have nothing to do with Einstein's theory of the relativity of time. They are psychological and subjective. But in spite of their subjectivity they are real, and there is some evidence that they can be linked to such unlikely factors as the age and/or sex of the individual.

For example, LeComte du Nouy undertook a number of studies of the differences in time sense between children, men, and women, and concluded that they were real. He wrote about them at some length subsequently in a book entitled Biological Time. Here he observed:

Time does not have the same value in childhood as in later years. A year is much longer, physiologically and psychologically, for a child than for a man. One year for a child of ten corresponds to two years for a man of twenty. . . . The time lapsed between the third and seventh years probably represents a duration equivalent to fifteen or twenty years for a grown man.

Du Nouy believed that the capacity to absorb knowledge in a very young child was correspondingly far greater than in the adult, including the comparatively effortless learning of several languages concurrently. Children have more time, more psychological time, but not more chronological time. He also concluded that there is a real difference in the time sense of the adult man and the adult woman.

A man's time sense is particulate, fractional, an hours-minutes-seconds kind of time sense. A man very consciously counts time, saves it, loses it, wastes it, does many other such things with it as though it were being parcelled out to him in bits and pieces of a size convenient to the task which occupies it. Du Nouy believed that the male had a kind of inner clock, the ticking of whose mechanism he was somehow aware of. In England when the Gregorian calendar was adopted in 1752 and September 3rd suddenly became September 14th, general rioting resulted on account of the fact that workmen felt they had been robbed of eleven days of their lives, eleven whole days of life that personally belonged to them. A man tends to be more conscious of delay because of this inner clock. Western man makes clocks with smaller and smaller divisions until he can now measure a millionth of a second. He assumes that the measurement of a fraction of a second represents an absolute measure of some strictly objective reality: a sixteenth of an inch, let us say, of the tape that has been wound on the spool to the right.

According to du Nouy, a woman's sense of time is somewhat different from a man's, and the two divergent senses are cause of not a little confusion and sometimes friction. Her sense of time is not fractional or length oriented, but event oriented. He reasoned that this results from the various cycles which regulate a woman's experience throughout life, most of which are not experienced by the male. These cycles are essentially related to child-bearing, puberty, monthly periods, gestation periods, menopause, and so forth.

The result is that a woman is timing life, not by the even spacing of the minutes or the hours in the way that a man times his, but in cycles which are much longer and not nearly so precise. The intervening time spaces are not attended to in the same way.

When a Marti responds to her impatient husband (name withheld to protect myself if she reads this - although she would agree with me) as he waits to take the family to the movie, by saying "Coming, dear, right away," she does not mean this literally. She means only that at that moment this is the next event she has in mind: to join her husband.

Meanwhile, I make a mental note of her reply and allows her forty-five seconds to make the trip from her bedroom to the front door! Consequently, I am is frustrated when, ten minutes later, I am still pacing up and down the hall. . . .
Neither party seems able to accept the other's sense of time. And children have the same problem with grownups.

Flow rate of time: absolute or relative?
It is clear, therefore, that time does not have a fixed spending&value in experience. It does not flow at a uniform rate through the consciousness of each individual. If we were all drugged alike, the passage of time might be universally accelerated or decelerated: and no one would detect it. Our mechanical clocks would be part and parcel of the conspiracy and their observed rate would simply reflect our drugged perception and share in the same acceleration or deceleration. Just as, if we were to double the size of the Universe and everything in it, we would also have doubled the size of our yardstick, so that the Universe would measure exactly what it did before! The same is true with time. If time passed for all of us at twice the speed or dragged for all of us at half the rate that it presently does, we would not be aware of any change.
This variability is entirely subjective of course -- or at least we assume it is. Actually, we have no way of knowing whether there really is — somewhere — an objective flow rate of time or an actual yardstick for size. We build our clocks by our consciousness of the time it takes the earth to complete one revolution about its axis, and our calendar around the time it takes the earth to circle the sun. We observe the rate of the revolution of the earth and try to make sure that the rate of the revolution of the clock hands is in agreement: but in either case it is, after all, by our consciousness of this rate that we are guided. Some other smaller people on some other larger planet might be surprised at our assessment of how fast time flies, especially if what we call a drugged state is the normal state for them, or if their body temperature is running much higher or much lower than ours.

Thus the rate of time's flow lies in our consciousness. It is relative, to us. There is no way in which we can say how fast it is flowing by until we specify whose time we are talking about. Whose time is right? Moreover, there is no absolute ground for assuming (as we commonly do) that the flow rate of time is the same everywhere in the Universe. And God's time and our time may be very different things, not perhaps in the direction in which it flows but in the rate at which it flows.

One might argue that the sun determines the rate, not we. So it does. But it is important to realize that if our inner clocks all ran at one tenth of their present rate we would simply see the sun moving correspondingly more slowly across the sky, and we would still see our clocks keeping time with that movement. It would not be necessary to re-set our clocks. Our reading of the sun as moving at a slower rate across the sky would be exactly matched by a similar reading of the movement of the minute and hour hands of our clocks, even if they were one of these new types which are claimed to have such tremendous accuracy. Pendulum clocks are highly dependable, but they too would be seen to slow up or to accelerate. The swing of the pendulum back and forth would be matched to our perception of the speed of the sun in its circuit, because we would make sure that it did. On the basis of this swinging pendulum we might make our calculations of the value of gravity and though they would be adjusted to our time sense, they would still be correct. In short, nothing would change. Only some super-natural being who was not locked in as part of our space/time frame of reference, who could look on without becoming entangled with our metabolic acceleration or deceleration, would be able to observe what was happening to us. We ourselves would not be aware of it if we were all involved.

Nevertheless, we still feel confident that somewhere there is indeed a real time rate, and that it is only our sense of time that is upset -- not the time rate itself. We recognize that we are all alike immersed in a psychological time frame from which we cannot escape. But we all agree, or did agree until Einstein came along, that the flow rate of time itself had an absolute quality about it.

What, then, did Einstein really mean when he said that time is relative? Did he only mean that the sense of time is relative, while the flow of its current moves on at a speed that is invariable? Did he mean only that we experience time at different rates but that this variability is only in the consciousness of the observer? The answer is, No! This is not what he meant. He meant that time does not have a fixed flow rate, that its flow rate really is variable, that this variability is not dependent on the observer!

Before we turn to examine the implications of what Einstein proposed, implications which have since been very widely confirmed by experiment and observation, it will be well to see that Western man has often lagged behind people of other cultures in their understanding of the "real" nature of time. We shall then be in a better position to use this new understanding as a means of explaining a number of important passages of Scripture — some of which have hitherto appeared to be in contradiction with each other in disconcerting ways.

Think about these things and we’ll get together to consider these and others as we begin to see time as God "sees"

Love,

Denis

Time and a peanut butter sandwich

Part #3

Of Time, infinity, & Eternity and a peanut butter sandwich

Gentle readers,

I brought a peanut butter sandwich this time as a jelly donut won’t be enough as we delve into the mysteries of God , what He has provided us and where we (you and me) fit into the scheme of things. If you need to refresh your memory you can find the previous 2 studies on this site and if you need a basic understanding then refer to our study (where this all began) on "Time and Space".

Now I might point out that you don’t need to be a member in good standing of MENSA (Mensa's only requirement for membership is that one score at or above the 98th percentile on certain standardized IQ tests, such as the Standford-Bient).However these studies are rather like the time we lived in Florida and Marti and I went to the ocean. Now Marti is five feet nothing and she dipped her toes in the water (I should tell you that it was January came back to our apartment and called her mother to tell her we had been swimming in the waters of the gulf)! That wasn’t swimming . But I never could convince her that she had to actually get in the water before she could call it swimming Just like Peter had to step out of the boat to walk on the water. These studies are designed to get you out of the boat ( or in most cases out of the box [the narrow thinking which prevails in many today].

So with that as a lead up lets consider munching our peanut butter sandwich as we consider time from God’s point of view.

　

The Theory of Relativity has forever changed our concept of Time. everyone 'knows' that time, viewed objectively, began "in the beginning" and flows by with a past, a present, and a future until it ends "when time is no more". Time began, said Augustine, with creation. Time has no meaning or existence, said Einstein, apart from the physical universe.

So one asks, How much "time" was taken for creation? Did God work "slowly" or did He create it all in a moment of time? Would He create something and give it an appearance of age it didn't have? Is eternity an extension of time? Can time and eternity even be compared? And what will heaven be like without time?

Everyone 'knows' that time, viewed subjectively, is relative: it slows almost to a halt in suffering but speeds by in joy. This has a bearing on what happened on the Cross during those three hours of darkness.

"Actual time," whatever that is, may be much faster or much slower than we apprehend it to be. Our time may depend upon the mean temperature at which our minds operate. If all life on some other planet operated at a temperature of, say, 70 F. or 110 F., the time frame would be very different. Presumably the order of events would remain the same but the time intervals between these events, and therefore the speed at which things happen, would be experienced very differently. The problem is that we could only discover it if we, unlike that other planet's inhabitants, wore some kind of insulated clothing to keep our body temperature precisely where it now is, while we visited with them.
Such, then, is one of the factors which conceals from us the "real" rate at which time flows by

Size: Now it is also possible that the size of our bodies relative to the Universe has a bearing on how we experience the passage of time. To a tiny insect with a life span of only a few hours, a geological age would be an eternity. The size of an organism obviously has a bearing simply because a highly complex creature of large proportions needs more time just to reach adult size, and thus has to "take longer at meals" in order to get enough food to sustain itself and to grow up. Cell division and multiplications at a certain "normal" rate, and obviously the larger the number of cells that have to multiply to generate the adult organism the longer the time it will take. Within certain very loose limits a larger animal will have a longer life. The insect that lives for a few hours presumably passes through all the phases of maturing and the experiences which accompany them from birth to death in those few hours. Though it is difficult to conceive of it, it seems likely that such a creature would pass through its carefree childhood, anxious adolescence, bored middle life, and disappointed old age: and who knows but that it looks forward in its childhood to a lifetime as stretching out before it, or thinks back in the retrospect of old age upon what is past, in a way which is somewhat analogous to the human situation. This may not be true of insects, of course. But it seems likely that it is partially true of such a creature as a dog whose life span is nevertheless only about one fifth of ours. So size obviously has a bearing on experienced time. One Victorian writer, Ambrose Bierce, wrote:ld

‘Now it is also possible that the size of our bodies relative to the Universe has a bearing on how we experience the passage of time. To a tiny insect with a life span of only a few hours, a geological age would be an eternity. The size of an organism obviously has a bearing simply because a highly complex creature of large proportions needs more time just to reach adult size, and thus has to "take longer at meals" in order to get enough food to sustain itself and to grow up. Cell division and multiplications at a certain "normal" rate, and obviously the larger the number of cells that have to multiply to generate the adult organism the longer the time it will take. Within certain very loose limits a larger animal will have a longer life. The insect that lives for a few hours presumably passes through all the phases of maturing and the experiences which accompany them from birth to death in those few hours. Though it is difficult to conceive of it, it seems likely that such a creature would pass through its carefree childhood, anxious adolescence, bored middle life, and disappointed old age: and who knows but that it looks forward in its childhood to a lifetime as stretching out before it, or thinks back in the retrospect of old age upon what is past, in a way which is somewhat analogous to the human situation. This may not be true of insects, of course. But it seems likely that it is partially true of such a creature as a dog whose life span is nevertheless only about one fifth of ours. So size obviously has a bearing on experienced time.

4. Bierce, Ambrose: quoted by E. L. Hawke in a written

communication for the discussion of a Paper presented by F. T. Farmer, "The Atmosphere: Its Design and Significance in Creation", Transactions of the Victoria Institute (England), vol. 71, 1939, p.54, 55.

　

Life span
Man lives three score years and ten. The period is long enough relative to the life of an insect to make our estimate of time very different. Did we live as long as the pre-Flood patriarchs who survived for almost a thousand years, a geological age might strike us as not quite such a long period, and an historical epoch might seem very brief.
There are among us a small number of unfortunate individuals suffering from a disease called progeria which brings about a frighteningly accelerated rate of aging of the body. Within a period of ten to fifteen years these people pass through infancy and childhood, adolescence, middle age, senility, and death. Each stage is marked by all the symptoms more or less characteristic of a normally spanned life. By the age of twelve or so, the sufferer is already an old man, decrepit in physique, hard of hearing, dim of eye, bald and toothless, shrunken in appearance. All the tell-tale marks associated with old age are evident, even sometimes to the hardening of the arteries. One foot is already in the grave.
To such individuals, we who survive to the presently allotted span of life must appear as the pre-Flood patriarchs do to us. A corollary of this would naturally be that, to the pre-Flood patriarchs, we who think we are in health would actually appear as pitiful progeriacs. And possibly this is the truth of the matter: but because we have come to accept our present life span as normal, we discount the records of antiquity as

unbelievable.(6)
While they are reported to have lived to almost a thousand years, we may live to almost a hundred: and while we live to almost a hundred years, the progeriac lives to about ten. The proportions are curiously much the same -- ten to one. Who can say what a normal life span really is, or ought to be? But now, if our life time passes at a normal rate for us, did the pre-Flood patriarchs live at a much slower rate? Did time therefore seem to pass much more slowly in each of their days? Who knows whose biological clocks are actually telling the right time? We don't know what a short time is or a long time: and it seems virtually impossible for us ever to find out how long, long is. Their one thousand years may have seemed to them, experientially, no longer than our mere three score years and ten. The progeriac, in his "younger" days, perhaps watches those around him growing slowly into potential Methuselahs, while he himself experiences the flow of time at a "normal" pace.

(6) Progeria: for the implications of this disease upon the Genesis record of longevity, see Arthur C. Custance, The Seed of the Woman, Hamilton, Ontario, Can., Doorway Publications, 1980, p.26-28.

Drugs
Some drugs have the effect of so slowing up the time at which things happen that the subject appears to have been provided with 'more time' to examine events that normally occur too rapidly for comprehension of what is happening. One has to put the words "more time" in quote marks because we do not really know whether this is the way to describe the situation or whether it is the mental processes that are enormously speeded up instead. Constance Holden speaks of a pianist who under the influence of drugs worked out an interpretation of a Bach toccata, condensing what she considered to be eight hours of practice time in ten minutes of trance time. She also refers to a song writer who during a drug-induced trance imagined that she walked down a street into a cabaret, ordered a sandwich and a beer, and then listened to a singer rendering three songs. All of this took place in a clocked time interval of only two minutes. Afterwards she was able to sing the songs, each one of which was new to her. This was done entirely by normal speed recollection of events which had been imagined under drugs at a vastly accelerated rate.

Who knows but what we ourselves may wake up some day and find that our whole life has in effect passed in a moment or two of real time -- as Psalm 103:15 and 16 almost seem to suggest "As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more." (Psa 103:15-16)

Think about these things, Gentle reader, and get back with me next time.

Love, Denis

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

Time, Infinity and a Jelly donut (Part 2)

When time begins . . . and ends ((part 2)

"If we assume that all matter were to disappear
from the world . . . there would no longer be any
space or time."
Albert Einstein
(1979—1955)

"Here you must put time out of your mind and
know that in that world there is neither time nor a
measure of time, but everything is an eternal moment".
Martin Luther
(1483—1546)

"Creation was with time, not in time."
Augustine of Hippo
(354—420)

"Time shall be no more." (Revelation10:6)
John the Apostle
(0—100? A.D.)

"Time began with the world — or after it."
Philo Judaeus
(B.C. 20—40 A.D.)

 

Gentle Readers,

We can “kill time”, we can waste time, we can try to make up time, or slow time down, have a good time, tea time, make time, we can work full time, or play time or find extra time, time to sleep or wake up! As the wisest man who ever lived summed it up To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace (Ecc 3:1-8 )

If time is of no interest to you them consider eternity. Time someone said is like a river and eternity is like standing on the river bank.

;Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away So go the opening lines of one stanza of Isaac Watt's well-known hymn.
It expresses the common sense view of the flow of time, a steady stream of something in which we live, carrying us along in its current, flowing always at the same speed and in the same direction, and passing across the stage of our experience like a tape upon which events are being indelibly impressed. It comes out of eternity and passes on into eternity, allowing us an opportunity to act out our little part in the allotted span.
Nothing happens outside of it because it is inconceivable that it could. There has always been time, and all events are embedded in it, even creation itself. Before the universe existed, time must have been passing even in eternity, while God was making his plans. When the world comes to an end, we have to ask how there can possibly be "no more time" (as Revelation10:6 (1) seems to say) since God and the angels surely continue, and so will we as God's children. At any rate, such is the common sense view of things.
"And [the angel] sware by him who lives for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that are therein, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer " (Revelation 10:6).

The common sense view tells us that time is constant in its flow, unvarying and unending. But experience challenges this, now and then.(2) Let us explore the circumstances under which such challenges may arise. They seem to depend on some factors that are external to ourselves and some factors that are within ourselves.

Some of the external factors are such things as the time of day, environmental temperature, darkness, extended periods of absolute silence, total deprivation of sense stimulation, and involvement in a threatening situation or an actual accident.

Some of the external factors are such things as the time of day, environmental temperature, darkness, extended periods of absolute silence, total deprivation of sense stimulation, and involvement in a threatening situation or an actual accident.

Some of the internal factors are age (childhood, maturity, or senility), body temperature (whether due to fever or to environmental conditions), hypnosis, the action of drugs or poisons, potential starvation, and sex (whether male or female).

Other internal factors are extremes of pain or fear, pleasure or excitement. These, too, effectively distort our awareness of the passage of time, the former enormously slowing it up and the latter substantially accelerating it. It has been observed that, in retrospect, we retain only vague memories of what was happening when time was dragging, but vivid memories when time was flying. It is as though our estimate of time is somehow adjusted to the intensity of our awareness.

We measure time by change. But change has to be perceived and perceiving involves some kind of activity of the mind that is almost certainly linked to the electrochemical processes of the brain. So we now suspect that altered temperatures upset the normal operating speed of these processes. The higher the temperature, the more rapidly the "frames" are recorded and the greater the number of them per time unit: the lower the temperature, the more slowly they are recorded and the fewer of them per unit of time.

The hibernating animal whose temperature steadily falls until he finally goes to sleep, probably skips straight from the picture of the last day of autumn to the first day of spring. There is no experienced interval in this "skip." The eye of its mind therefore takes only two photographs in that interval -- the first falling snowflake and the last melting icicle. The intervening winter is by-passed entirely (and so is our “step out of time” via “death into what we call timelessness or eternity ). As a sun dial counts only the sunny hours, so the animal's consciousness perceives only the warm days. On its last wakeful day in the fall, the sun declines more and more slowly as its own temperature falls and it loses consciousness even before the sun has actually set. It is months later that one day in the spring as the warming sun rises higher in the morning and the environmental temperature allows the animal to return to a waking state, it opens its eyes to see the sun already risen. In the interval it has not known that the sun was daily continuing its circuit across the sky. Kaleidoscoping its last moments of wakefulness in the fall with its first day of wakefulness in the spring, it had not actually seen the sun go down at all. The winter months have simply been eclipsed. There have, in fact, been no intervening winter sunsets.

What if the only creatures alive were creatures like this? Their picture of the world would be the only reality they could know and they might very well assume that it was the reality. We are in much the same position, except that we depend on mechanical clocks rather than biological ones, and these mechanical clocks continue to run even when we are unconscious. Nevertheless, it is we who have set the speed at which they go, according to the speed at which we have sensed the sun in its journeyings

It is true that this is all subjective. Yet the question arises whether the flow rate of time that is normal to human experience may not actually be determined by the mean temperature at which our bodies operate. This temperature is remarkably constant for all men all over the world -- at the equator, in the tropics, in temperate zones, and even in the Arctic. Thus if body temperature does regulate time sense in any way, we all agree pretty well on the speed at which time is passing, i.e., at what speed the sun is making its daily round. . . . and therefore at what speed to set our mechanical clocks.

But what if we lived on a planet where the normal body temperature happened to be 104 F. (as it is in birds) instead of 98 F.? Of course, the sun would go across the sky at its own fixed rate, whatever that happens to be, but if we with our new time sense perceived it to be going more slowly than it now is and accordingly set our clocks to match its slower time, how could we ever discover it? How then can we know what the objective flow rate of time really is? We naturally assume that there is some such objective flow rate for the Universe but we cannot tell what it is for sure because it is locked into our stream of consciousness, and this is determined by our temperature.

We ourselves as part of the system cannot know whether our time sense reflects the actual passage of time. Perhaps God observes the movements of the Universe at twice the speed we do, or only at half the speed we do. To Him who stands outside of it, uninfluenced by temperature or any other such factor, time may pass at an entirely different rate, the "actual" rate one might say. Thus there could be a general conspiracy to which all objective time markers within the system are party, and we assess the flow rate of all these markers in the context of our own consciousness. We set our clocks to keep our time as determined by the speed at which we observe the passage of the sun across the sky of our experience. We filter these signals through our minds and every kind of marker is forced through the same filtering process, both the clocks we make and the length of the day by which we set them. Of this filtering process we are unaware.

To be continued....

 

Love, Denis

 

2. On some research done in this area, see Alton J. DeLong, "Phenomenological Space-Time: Towards an Experiential Relativity", Science, vol. 217, 7 August, 1981, p. 681.

 

IN REMEMBRANCE OF YOU

"I thank my GOD upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy." [Philippians 1. 4]

"Grace to you and peace from GOD our FATHER and the LORD JESUS CHRIST." [Philemon 1. 3]
We humbly and graciously thank the MOST HIGH GOD for allowing us to have such wonderful, personal CHRIST-like friends all over the world. Our special, faithful, dedicated friends, family -- who have held us up in prayer, encouraged us, laughed with us and at us, lightened burdens, cheered us, refreshed and supported us and our ministry in MESSIAH JESUS' service. . We are truly richly blessed and owe such a debt to the ALMIGHTY ONE for the treasured gifts HE has given us in each of you.

This is devoted to our beloved family of friends in the great Lord, King Messiah of Israel: "To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ...Grace to you and peace from GOD our Father and the LORD JESUS CHRIST. We give thanks to the GOD and FATHER of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you…for your faith in JESUS CHRIST and of your love for all the saints; because of the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel, which has come to you, as it has also in all the world, and is bringing forth fruit, as it is also among you since the day you heard and knew the grace of GOD in truth." [Colossians 1. 2-6]

And this we pray, "that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of CHRIST, being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by JESUS CHRIST, to the glory and praise of GOD." [Philippians 1. 9-11]

"Brethren, your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other." [2 Thessalonians 1. 3] We personally know "of your love and faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints…and every good thing which is in you in MESSIAH JESUS." [Philemon 1. 4-6] "For this reason we also thank GOD without ceasing, because when you received the WORD OF GOD which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the WORD OF GOD, which also effectively works in you who believe." [1 Thessalonians 2. 13]

May the MIGHTY CREATOR, the GOD OF HOSTS keep each of you "steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the LORD, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the LORD." [1 Corinthians 15. 58] "Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong. Let all that you do be done with love." [1 Corinthians 16. 13-14]

Precious one, know always that you are cherished, appreciated and loved . . . Thanks for being you! We thank YOU LORD, our Great GOD and praise YOUR GLORIOUS NAME, for each treasured individual YOU have blessed us to share in their lives. We prayerfully ask YOU, OMNIPRESENT LOVING MASTER, to bless, enrich and strengthen each one as only YOU can. Amen, Amen!

Chaos theory

21 centuries of hate, war and horrific treatment of others; Humans created in the image of God... How is that working? Shouldn't we try something else?

Gentle Readers,
We have seen more hatred, killing, murders, violence and generally calamity than anyone should expect and while some scream out loud and shake their wee fist a a seeming uncaring God who does not hear. Others try to explain what is going on and why way Jesus the Christ called the “prince of peace”? No one is immune to this havoc that is visited on the human race, from the pundits who claim to be journalists and advocate hate and retribution on those who disagree with their position, to those who make no claims except to line their pockets and scream at our newest president “I hope he fails” To those leaders, so-called who desire to incite people to riot and kill in the name of a cause that they do not even understand! Hatred, destruction and evilness are all about us and what we here from God is a “silent heaven”
Not so gentle reader, What God is trying to teach us is that we are, regardless of race, color creed - Family and family ought to stand together under all types of circumstances . We should stand against evil, come to the aid of brothers and sister, children and the elderly for this reason alone we are all in this together. And this was the final word received by humanity from God.
TO COMPLETE THE WORD OF GOD { Colossians 1:25} There is a post-Acts dispensational ministry given through the Apostle Paul that completes and fills full The Word of God. This final ministry completes the whole canon of Scripture. This was done by an inspired apostle, not by an uninspired church council meeting centuries later. This many-faceted ministry of Paul (contained in Eph./Col.) brings forth and makes operational those hitherto secret purposes of God -- those that awaited the right and opportune time for their revelation.
The purpose of the ages past as well as the substance of the on-coming ages was now made known. It is the cap-stone-of the revealed will of God, and the most sublime of all God's revelations in respect to Himself, The Lord Jesus Christ, and of all that is related to and in Christ.
The secret of The Father's heart's desire is to head-up, sum-up, comprehend under one Head, and gather together in the perfect Christ all things in the heavens, and upon the earth, in Him (Eph. 1:9,10). An adjunct to the Dispensation of Grace to all people, Eph. 3:2, is The Mystery of Christ, a setting forth of the perfections of Christ's person in relationship to His Body, and that as a projection of what is in store for all. Christ's various modes of being are developed in the Colossian Letter with Christ filling full the Body of Christ with Himself, Col. 1:27; cf.Eph.1:23.
There is a revealing and a releasing of the untrackable riches of Christ, this having been heretofore hidden away from all ages of time, and from all generations, Col.1:26.
This unprophecied and non-Jewish uncovenanted program is without temple, priestcraft, ritual, or ordinances. It exists within the frame-work of The Spirit's Unity in Eph.4, a oneness made by God -- and in which there is no excommunication, and in which all are made "complete in Christ," Col. 2:10. All are made "prepared" Col. 1:12, and are jointly-seated with Christ, Eph. 2:6.
The Mystery was God's original purpose, antedating Israel, Abraham, or the Old and New Covenants … it reaches back before the dawn of time and stretches forth into all the on-coming ages and their generations. No hint is given of its interruption, termination, or any other program taking priority over it as to time, place or rank. There is no intimation anywhere in The Word of God that this Mystery ministry of Paul's is, was, or ever will be a parenthesis within the frame-work of Israel's hope.
This grace, fullness, and Christ orientated dispensational program is not a substitute until something better is revealed. This is the very best that God has ever revealed. Can you understand God’s silence? Gentle reader, God is waiting for humanity to catch up! ,
 You are accepted, you are valued your are loved by God and by me!
Denis