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I am curious to know your thoughts

You chose your own doom then. Just kidding, there are two sides of this. Religious dogma, not to use the term disparagingly, says there is no time in heaven. So does it all happen at once, or does the same moment go on forever? Or both at the same time?

And this blends into relativity theory. Time and space are inseparable, so there is no space in heaven either. But going even deeper into special relativity, Einstein said everything goes the speed of light. That is, either the speed of light through space or the speed of light through time. Most people tend to scoff when I say "speed of light through time", but those are Einsteins words, and it's always a bad idea to doubt what he says.

Here's his point, which took me a little time to grasp. As you may know, the speed of light is always the same, regardless of the speed of the observer. The speed of light through time or space can be represented by a right triangle. One axis is the speed of light through time, the other is through space. The hypotenuse, however, represents the speed of light itself, never changing. So the x and y axis change accordingly, but the hypotenuse is always the same. When stationary, an object goes the full speed of light through time, which is 1 second per second. At near the speed of light through space, however, time almost stops. The length of its axis nears zero.

I'm being way too esoteric and just went completely off topic, but as I said it's interesting to me.

It is interesting to me too. I used to think that the prophets were just predicting things which were already set to happen. Reading some of the New Testament I get the idea that God had them predict what would happen then he made it happen.

I have never really understood Einstein except generally. I do got the impression that he was seeking the one explanation which would explain everything. I guess it is another was of saying God but he must have been looking for a physical explanation.

I sometimes wonder if time may be like a movie. Instead of 32 frames per second, the Universe is composed of trillions of frames per second or even more. Someone who could control any or many frames could do about anything.

The speed of light through time or space can be represented by a right triangle. One axis is the speed of light through time, the other is through space.

This part I don't understand. Let us forget about two of the three spatial dimensions. Then you have the continuum (X,T). Two axes, the observer in the center (0,0). A particle of light is at (x,t). Its speed is dx/dt, and that is constant. The triangle is (0,0) - (0,t) - (x,t). Where is speed through time and speed through space?