Killing Time

Hello. I'm Bill O'Really and this is the Un-Spin Zone. Recently a little known writer expressed his opinions on time. Although his will never be a best-seller, it provides food for thought. For you curious urchins and seasoned adults you can review his commentary at The Value of Time.

Time is important! It's the measure of existence. If Chance created the universe it took time. If God is the Creator, time is of no issue because his word tells us so:

2 Peter 3:8 "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."

Those of us who listened in school realize that this is not an equivalency. It's not empirical nor has it value. It strictly means that if a Creator was powerful enough to create everything from nothing, he can certainly do it in an instant or in trillions of years. With power like that time is a slave to deity rather than God a slave to time!

What is time? Have you ever seen it? Is it real? Time is the irreversible progress of events. Early man measured time on a lunar calendar. Since Roman times time is been measured using a solar calendar. Hence, time is an offshoot of light. Theologians believe this:

Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day."

Someone once asked me "Mr. O'Really. When did time begin?" I don't have the answer for that, but God does. After he created it all, then he assigned time to what was created. It apparently was created in an instant and it was a mature universe which was created. Some believe in Higg's Boson, the so-called "God Particle", but that boson blossomed from energy and took time, which didn't yet exist, to mature into "things".

On the other hand when God made the "Big Bang" (laughable for me), energy came from God and everything was made in an instant. That's God's immutability. God is immune from the constraints of time. Jesus demonstrated that when he merely "appeared"  to the eleven apostles in the locked room after his resurrection. His entry was instantaneous. Time was his slave!

Scientists have determined that when things move faster than the speed of light, time is reversed. If things are moved slightly faster than the speed of light, time is slowed. If it moves much faster, perhaps twice as fast, things go backward in time. Of course it is theoretically impossible to make things be before they happen, but that's the theory.

Time can be bent. My wife shopping bends time. It seems as if one hour is a day. Perhaps God is telling us something!  Actually when time passes over a great body, it actually bends around the body, oh so slightly. In other words time is a wave appearing to be a straight line, but it actually avoids celestial bodies.

Time began with O'Really. Time became with you. We all place the start of time with our own existence. As soon as we are cognizant of time is when our mind starts to dwell on the end of time, Of course time never really ends, but death ends the measurement of our own mortality. The end of time is when it's over for us all, but God's clock ticks on.

Every instant is at a distance from the start. Since time is eternal at this instant we have used up 50% of all the time ever available. Next year time is still 50% processed. The magnitude of time before right now is the same amount of time after right now. It will always be this way because eternity is an infinite amount. It is an amount without end. "Before us" was infinite time and "after us" is the same, because infinity divided by two is still infinity!

Scripture describes the King of Time this way:

Revelation 22:13 "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last."

Before you ever was, God was always. Before Adam ever was, God was always. God just "IS" and because he always "WAS" he is without name! God said:

 Exodus 3:14 "And God said unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you. "

Because God is eternal, eternity can only be explained by God. God was before the cosmos. God was before the empty space in which the cosmos was placed. He created something in nothing and before that  he created the nothing into which the something was placed! Therefore when God said "in the beginning" it was long before anything!

Genesis 1:3-5 above was when time was divided into increments for our sake! In man's beginning it wasn't lunar time, but solar because time was divided into two parts: night and day.

God created the earth and us to revolve around the sun. Because of our own foolishness, failing to heed scripture, man recognized the moon as time because it revolved around us. Hence, there became a lunar calendar. God allowed us to have that calendar and assigned religious feasts around the time of the moon.  Early man's time was geocentric because we believed that everything is about us. As the moon revolved around us so did time!

Later on (before 380 B.C.) Pythagoras presented the heliocentric model where the earth revolved around the sun as did all the other planets. Time had always been heliocentric, but Pythagoras killed the geocentric version of time! Since time is merely for mankind, we look to the sun to measure our time. That's ironic because as the sun provides life, it also kills. In Eden the death rays of the sun were filtered out by the mist and man lived in a type of greenhouse where everything flourished.  With sin man was no more immortal. Death came with Adam's sin and not only did Adam kill himself, but he killed time. Before death time was of no significance because life was forever. With the advent of death man needed time to measure his days. The utility of time  was to measure Adam's mortality and it still exists to measure our own mortality.

When the end of time comes, it's the end of mortal mankind. With the death of humankind, time dies as well. Time is meant to measure the existence of the virus called death and when everyone is physically dead, time dies. Time started with us when God created our habitat in the beginning. God knew that someday his creation would die and would need time to measure his life. God knew that all men would sin and consequently die, and man needed a device to measure his days!

From the Creation to Jesus time went on.

Ecclesiastes 1:4 "One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. 5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. 6  The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. 7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. 8 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.  9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun."

You can see that Solomon realized that time was the measure the days of men. He was the wisest man who ever lived (sorry Steven Hawkings) because Solomon knew what life and death was all about. However, Solomon didn't see the Light at the end of the tunnel. He was only able to define time, but not kill it! Jesus did that!

This commentary is about "Killing Time". Time died with the death of Jesus:

Matthew 27:45 "Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour."

Since the beginning their was a Plan. Jesus was with God in the beginning. Scripture tells us so! You may say, "Mr. O'Really, how can that be because Jesus was born much later?"  Well Jesus was a glint in his Father's eye because God knew of his birth long before it ever happened. As mankind died in Eden, grace was given through more time. Time died when Jesus died on the cross because the Plan had come to fruition. Three hours of darkness signified the death of time because at that instant the Light shined forth and made eternity available to all who believed. Death was defeated that day by Jesus' death on the cross. Because he was resurrected we can be as well. Mankind's hope went from destitution to hope. Mankind's life went from nothing to eternity.

With Jesus time died because the new creation has no use for light and day because everything is about the Light; it's about Jesus. When we live forever, it will no longer be egocentricity, geocentricity  nor heliocentricity (sun-centeredness). It shall be Son-Centered because Jesus died that time would be defeated. We all live for the day when what Solomon said ceases to be. The sun will no longer come up nor go down because the "Killing Time" has already come! Eden will be again where the sun can no longer harm and we live with saving Light. This Light will no longer go down and come up. It will always be there. With eternal life time will be dead and the hope for that eternal life was done on the cross by Jesus. Death died that day and with it Jesus killed the need for time since the promise is eternity! That's the day time dies.

You might say that time died that day, but for the unsaved it wasn't. For them they become eternal, but with endless torment and without the Son, each moment will be measured. Jesus Killed time for those who live, but time is alive and well for those who died an eternal death. It no longer will be measured by night and day, but sorrow. Those where time was never killed will wish it was dead! The good news is that we can live forever where time, not God, is dead. We shall be with the One who killed time. We can do that because he created time... back in "the beginning"!

You might say, "This is Bill O'Really's" viewpoint. I know it is controversial as were Killing Lincoln and even Killing Jesus!"

You can own Killing Time free of charge. It's a gift which you can have merely for the taking. All that is necessary is that you believe that Jesus killed time! It's that easy! It's not the book that you'll get, but time killed. The gift of the believer is endless time, life without end, because Jesus killed time!