Posted on 09/08/2021 1:51:01 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water” (Proverbs 8:22-24).
God has just always been around. You just have to accept that by faith. You’re going to fry all the little neurosynapses in your head if you work on it too hard, and you're going to have smoke coming out your ears pretty soon. This is what the Bible tells us:
“Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God” (Psalms 90:1-2).
“Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting” (Psalms 93:2). Now, there's something else that was from everlasting. “Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek. But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting” (Micah 5:1-2). So, sure enough, Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem, right”
“. . . whose goings forth have been from old, from everlasting,” Christ’s going forward have been from everlasting. A little baby shows up in a manger, just a pink little baby, just like anybody's little baby; only that little baby has walked all the way through eternity past.
“The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth.”
The interesting thing is it looks like as he was brought forth once, He may be going back and we can’t really be adamant on any of this, but notice 1 Corinthians 15:22, “For as in Adam all die, Even so in Christ shall all be made alive,” right? “But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming. Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the father.” When is that? Well, in revelation 11, “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our God, and of his Christ; he shall reign forever and ever.” That opens up the Millennium, right? Christ reigns for 1000 years in the Millennium.
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