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“But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him,” John 4:23.

“Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live,” John 5:25.

“Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation,” John 5:28.

“For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come….” 1 Timothy 4:8.

Your spirit does not live in the realm of time as we know time. In the realm of spirit, there is no time as we know or perceive time.

WHAT IS TIME?

We know that God saw the end from the beginning, He is the Alpha and Omega.

“In physical science, time is defined as a measurement, or as what the clock face reads.” We see time as measured or measurable period, a continuum that lacks spatial dimensions.

Time is of philosophical interest and is also the subject of mathematical and scientific investigation.

Why did Albert Einstein say time is an illusion which means a nonentity?

People who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Einstein did not reject the existence of time. Instead, he rejected the distinction between past, present, and future.

The concept of time is self-evident. An hour consists of a certain number of minutes, a day of hours, and a year of days.

But we rarely think about the fundamental nature of time. Time is passing non-stop, and we follow it with clocks and calendars.

Yet we cannot study it with a microscope or experiment with it. And it still keeps passing and we just cannot say what exactly happens when time passes.

The problem we have is that God, heaven, and the Kingdom of God exists outside of time in a spiritual realm rather that of a physical reality.

The so called spiritual realm was or is the first reality, and the physical realm was created from action originating from the spiritual realm.

It is obvious that the Spiritual is more real than the Physical realm. The spiritual realm is more real and tangible.

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,” Ephesians 1:3-5.

“Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,” 1 Peter 1:2.

God was and is at the beginning and the end at the same time, when we use the word, ‘end’ can only refer to the end of an era or epoch end, as time as we know it does not exist in the Kingdom realms of God.

The prophetic writer CS Lewis once said,

“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world…”

One of the names of God is “I AM” God is omnipresent i.e. everywhere at the same time. This of course destroys our earthly concept of time and space.

God I AM, is passed present and future all at the same time.

“Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,” 1 Peter 1:2.

God is at the end and the beginning at the same time Alpha and Omega.

“Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live,” John 5:25.

Jesus said that time is coming but now is! How does that work?

Now how can that be?

Jesus is talking about the resurrection of the dead into immortal bodies. But He then said the time for this now is and yet it is still in the future. It is available now but also future event.

If Adam had past the tests in Eden, God would have led him to the tree of Life and he would have lived forever, that was how it should have been.

“Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever,” Genesis 3:22.

Adam was the first prototype for the human race and he was supposed to live forever.

Jesus was known as the last of the Adamic race and He was without sin.

Through His death and resurrection a new race of people were born again and this new race of people must qualify to eat of the tree of life and be transformed while still on earth in the flesh.

“For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive,” 1 Corinthians 15:22.

“For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be destroyed is death,” 1 Corinthians 15:25.

This Time Is Yet To Come — However It Is Also Now.

There will be many in this last generation who will overcome the last enemy of the human race, death.

“Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live,” John 5:25.

This may seem way out there to many, however the word of God is very pure and means what it says.

We are no longer sons of Adam but sons of God. The last enemy that of death will be overcome by many while still in the flesh here on earth.

This last enemy has to be overcome by humans, death was the result of human failure. That’s why Jesus had to take on a human form without sin enabling Him to start a new supernatural race of people, children of the light.

The Apostle Paul said this:

“For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come,” 1 Timothy 4:8.

Paul said exercise is okay but there is a better way i.e. divine life

The Apostle John saw people in heaven who as yet had not been born. How could this be?

“Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, “Who are these arrayed in white robes, and where did they come from?” And I said to him, “Sir, you know.” So he said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. “Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night in His temple. And He who sits on the throne will dwell among them,” Revelation 7:13-15.

They came out of the last day’s tribulation period of time i.e. our time frame, yet John saw them in heaven around 2021 years ago.

“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word (i.e. Hears what I really am saying) and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. “Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live,” John 5:24-25.

We are followers of Jesus, we have been born again becoming a new species, a new creation. We have been baptised in water as Jesus was, and we have been baptised in the Holy Spirit just as the dove of the Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus.

However Jesus went on from there and was transfigured setting an example for us to follow.

This transfiguration of Jesus happened after 6 days. Now we are living at the end of the 6th day, 6000 years from Adam and beginning of the 7th day

“Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John, and led them up on a high mountain apart by themselves; and He was transfigured before them. His clothes became shining, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.
And Elijah appeared to them with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus,” Mark 9:2-4.

Transfiguration causes the mortal body to put on immortality while still here on earth in the flesh.

Why would we the followers of Jesus stop at being water baptised and baptised in the Holy Spirit when there is more transfiguration?

After all we are followers of Christ and he is our example. We are now passing from the church age to the Kingdom age and the powers of the age to come are now available.

“For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame,” Hebrews 6:4-6.

We clearly see from these verses of scripture that it is possible to experience and walk in the powers of the age to come before the age to come has come.

Your spirit lives in another dimension while yet inside your physical body. There is a part of you, your spirit which exists outside of time and space. Because of this reality Paul said this.

“Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need,” Hebrews 4:16.

There is a part of us that has access to the unseen realm of heaven which is more real than this physical world. We are told that we can come boldly.

The word boldly here is the Greek word “parrhesia” which has the meaning of with confidence, with the assurance that we are welcome”

There is a word that appears in the Bible in more than one place that helps us understand this: It is the word eternity.

“He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end,” Ecclesiastes 3:11.

The word eternity here is a word that has deep profound meaning.

The Hebrew word is Owlam. The meaning of this word gives us real insight into the two worlds the physical world and the spiritual world.

OWLAM 5769. ‘owlam, ; from H5956; prop. concealed, place. The vanishing point; gen. time out of mind (past or future.), i.e. (practically) eternity;

Psalm 24 is a psalm about ascending. It talks about having clean hands and a pure heart. About a generation who will seek the face of the LORD and ascend into God’s realm.

“Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in,” Psalms 24:7.

Everlasting doors what are they? The Hebrew word here for “everlasting” is the Hebrew word OWLAM — the concealed place, a place of time out of mind, eternity. These gates which lead to this realm are available to you and I.

The Hebrew word here for everlasting is “owlam” a place beyond time and space the realm of heavenly places.

There is another you inside of you, your spirit which has access to the realms of God.

“But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible,” (The hidden man, your spirit) 1 Peter 3:4.

“That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man,” Ephesians 3:16.

When was the last time you were aware of your inner man? The hidden man of the heart. There is another you inside of you, your avatar as it were, and this inner man has a permanent connection with the LORD: Spirit to Spirit.

First you must become aware of your inner man. Think about him, become aware of him. Close your eyes and see him in you. You must become inner man conscious and set your heart on the eternal.

This is a constant daily thing until it becomes natural to you. Practice, practice, until it becomes natural.

Then turn to the Lord the same way and become aware of Him. Lay a foundation on truth so the enemy cannot throw you.

The Lord is always with you He never leaves you. It is your awareness of Him that varies. Whether you are aware of Him or not He is there. He is omnipresent at all times.

Set your imagination on Him — Open the eternal door to His realm.

You have to learn to dwell in this secret place. As you do, you start to walk in two realms; the heavenly and the earthly.

You come with a pure heart and clean hands and ascend the hill of the Lord to owlam a place of time and of mind, the realm of God.

“But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him,” John 4:23.

Einstein’s theory of special relativity created a fundamental link between space and time. The universe can be viewed as having three space dimensions — up/down, left/right, forward/ backward — and one time dimension.

This 4-dimensional space is referred to as the space—time continuum.

God calls it Eternity and we all have access to our original home.

After all it is where we came from and can visit home when we need to.

If you believe it is so — If you don’t believe it is not so for you.

By: Neville Johnson The Academy of Light