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To: Alamo-Girl
“I'm hoping MHGinTN will share some examples of this from Scripture!” Well, I would, but then the book would be merely a sideline. But I will offer two scenes from the old Testament and one from the New which illustrate this ‘two way’ reality:

There is a scene where the prophet and his ‘student’ are seemingly trapped in a valley, with the army of their pursuers camped around in such a way that the student is certain with dawn they will be found and captured; the prophet is not concerned and tells his student that his army is larger/more powerful than that of the pursuers, and reveals a vast army and their campfires on the crest of the hills surrounding the pursuers; this army may well have been the recent Israeli army during one of the new Israel wars, given the locale and the nature of the vision; the pursuers apparently also saw the 'other' army, because they fled the valey during the night!

Another OT example is when an iron axehead is lost into the river and the prophet causes it to ‘float’ to the surface where the ‘student tree harvester’ can retrieve it.

In the New Testament, the scene where Philip is suddenly whisked away from the presence of the man who was riding in a chariot reading from Isaiah.

These scenes are but three of many. The essence of these scens is that time and space are not restraints to God's Spirit and the ability of His people/Spirit born people to at the very least perceive if not manipulate a greater reality. The fish and loaves Jesus fed more than five thousand with were by some means stretched as if tesseracts to be harvested at His Will. The fish and bread were real, thus they existed in space and time, but somehow space and time as reality was more than the 'witnesses' could perceive.

Jesus gave a huge hint regarding the astonishing reality of The SPirit of God present within, in the fourteenth chapter of John's Gospel, where He explained it to Philip as best Philip could conceive it ...

115 posted on 10/17/2012 4:17:32 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: MHGinTN; betty boop; zeugma; Boogieman; TXnMA
Thank you so very much for sharing those excellent examples, dear MHGinTN!
116 posted on 10/17/2012 9:32:40 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: MHGinTN; Alamo-Girl

I tend to look at it in a simpler form, as in God is “above” time.

Picture a Globe in your mind. Time is marching happily along following the equator. God, sitting on His Throne at the North Pole. At any given instant He can see every moment in our history, all in the present in His view. Just as we can trace multiple lines of longitude on a globe at the same time. In God’s eye, the past - present - future are all “now” to Him.

Oh, while I am thinking about it, I think at some point we will exceed the speed of light. What I wonder is when that happens, who is gonna pay the speeding ticket? [grin]


124 posted on 10/20/2012 1:21:56 AM PDT by Petruchio (I Think . . . Therefor I FReep.)
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