I will point you to the ultimate, greatest, bestest philosopher of the 20th Century, Douglas Adams, who accurately described time in his seminal works of: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and So Long and Thanks For All the Fish.
Directly is the quote: ““One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem in becoming your own father or mother that a broad-minded and well-adjusted family can’t cope with. There is no problem with changing the course of history—the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the end.
In a corollary observation: ““The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question ‘How can we eat?’ the second by the question ‘Why do we eat?’ and the third by the question ‘Where shall we have lunch?”
Therefore we can deduce that time is simply an invention by humanity in order to make dinner reservations.
I have long believed that we exist half way in time (spacetime) as a dimension.
Our Spirit given to us from God is not bound by this human Earthly limitation and this is how we sometimes receive help with glimpses of the future seeing around the corner so to speak.