(#4 Session 1) God's Concept of Time - Sabbath

Shalom Aleichem and welcome to my bi-monthly blog!

Continuing from my previous podcast, God gave us Time when He created the Heavens and the Earth. Unlike eternity, time is always moving forwards and never stops. It is never in a state of rest or Shalom.

Since we live in time, how are we to visualise what eternity and God’s eternal will is like? The answer is that we must view eternity not like an endless straight line but as a cycle, reflecting the nature of eternity. This was why God gave us the 7 Days of Creation, this weekly cycle that ends on the Seventh - or Sabbath - Day when He rested. The Creation Account is God’s means for us to see His eternal will at work on this side of time and history. It tells us that, just as in the original Creation Account, there is a future Sabbath or Shabbat when this world will enter into God’s eternal Shalom.

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(#3 Session 1) God's Concept of Time - Shalom

Shalom Aleichem and welcome to my bi-monthly blog!

In this and my next podcast, we will consider how what God wants to say to us can be discerned from the Bible when we approach it through the perspective of the 7 Days of Creation, by first understanding how God sees Time.

In the spiritual realm, there is no time. What we see happening on earth have all reached completion and are finished. There is no beginning and no end - all is one and done. Moreover, everything is perfect and at rest.

Only God can bring about this perfect unity, because it is an expression of His perfect, complete and finished will. This is the full meaning of the Hebrew word Shalom, summing up for us what it means to be in heaven in God's eternal presence.

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(#2 Session 1) Like the Men of Issachar

Shalom Aleichem and welcome to my bi-monthly blog!

Previously, we touched on the idea of God's Rhema and Kairos as it applied in our personal lives. But more importantly, God does not only speak to us personally but collectively as His people. In fact, the Bible is primarily His message to Israel, the Church and the world.

His purpose is so that we understand the times we live in and know what we, together as one Body of Christ, should do. There is an example of this in the Old Testament account of the men of Issachar. May we be like them - to hear, understand and act decisively as one Body of Christ in light of His Rhema and will.

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