God Is Not Linear

Time was created just for men's benefit;
God is not servant to a fixed order;
Chronology's a mortal requisite;
Divine events occur in disorder.
Do you think He Who created it all,
Cannot take a second step before the first?
Don't dress God in garments that are too small;
He spread the cosmos only for the earth!
The past, the future, are the same to God;
He can drain the cup before it's filled;
Men's future unreels ere history's trod,
Yet all occurred exact as He willed!
God is not linear in thought or deed;
He can pluck the fruit ere sowing the seed.

God can do any number of things at once and leave nothing undone. He told Abraham and Sarah that she would bear him a child. She was 90 years old and he 100. It sounded humorous to them because Sarah was beyond the age of child-bearing. In Genesis 18:14 God said, "Is anything too hard for the Lord?"

Not only did His promise come true in this instance, but the entire Bible contains numerous other deeds of God that were contrary to the laws of nature and time, which itself is His creation that will last only as long as men live. The universe was launched by God from a single small point in an absolute void. He spoke in the void 13.7 billion years ago, using a burst of energy that created all matter, including the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago. In Genesis 1 the account of the six-day creation of the earth and man tells of God's creation of the sun and moon on the fourth day, to divide day from night, and give men a way of counting days and years. He doesn't need time, but we do.

Although Jesus is God's only begotten son (John 3:16), and was born of a virgin about 2,000 years ago, John 1:1 tells us He was with God in the beginning; that is, before our time was ever begun.

"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, says the Lord, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty." (Revelation 1:8)