April 25, 2026, the 115th day of 2026
The Time is Set
No one can make Jesus come any sooner. No one can bring in the Antichrist any faster. The time has already been set.... View MoreApril 25, 2026, the 115th day of 2026
The Time is Set
No one can make Jesus come any sooner. No one can bring in the Antichrist any faster. The time has already been set.
The last 7 years before Jesus returns is set for the end of mankind's reign. We just don't know when that is. The Antichrist will be a part of it, but he will only have his major power for the last 3 1/2 years of that time.
Whether we desire it, or fear it, we cannot make the end come sooner. Evil wants to bring in the end through chaos and destruction. They still cannot speed it along.
We all have free will, but we all have set times. We have a set time to be born and to die. Mankind's rule of the Earth also has a set time, and then it is over and Jesus returns to take up His reign.
There is something we need to realize. Even though we have free will choices, they are being recorded. All of Earth's history has been, and is being written in God's books. Books keep records.
"And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books."
Revelation 20:12
All of the history of all the people who ever lived or will live, has been, or is, being written in a book, in books. We are making our choices, free will choices, and they are being written down. God has access not only to the beginning of those books, but the ending of them.
Omniscient--all-knowing, it may be a complicated idea for us humans, but we can explain a bit of it in human terms that we can understand.
A simple way of putting it is that once it is written in the book, it is. And if all that is, becomes a finished record, it can be seen and read. As a record, it is not going to be altered and remain a record.
So, if it were possible to go to the end of Earthly time and read those books, that record, we would know all the choices that everyone made. We would have all of the history, not because we wrote it, but because we read it.
When I am reading a book, but have not yet finished reading it, I can speculate on what might happen. But once I have read the book, I know what has happened. At that point it is done, and I can discuss the points I liked or didn't like, but it is set. My speculation and my actions have no part in it.
We have free will choices, that inpact our life. But once they have been made and written, they are unchangeable. They have been done.
God's record is being written about all of us, and all that is happening, but we have no impact on the finished product. That part is done. We cannot change it. There is no second draft.
This is not a perfect explanation, or even a very good one, but it helps me to understand a bit of it. God, Who does not exist in time, Who is not limited by what is happening in our time, can reads what we have done, within our alloted time.
God reveals what He chooses to reveal fron the beginning of our time to the end of it, and a bit beyond, to His chosen ones, to Moses, the prophets, the apostles, along with others He chooses. And it is recorded in the Bible.
The time is set, because the time was set. The signs are set, because the signs were set.
A lot of the signs we are seeing are signs that show us that we are getting near the end.
God has already seen that end. He doesn't really need to read the book, because He is God. Still, because at the end, it is all finished, He can read that end. It is all written down.
Being outside of time, God knows the end from the beginning, because He sees it all, not because He does it all.
But God is God. He is the Creator, the Master, the Ruler. He can and does move in the lives of His creation as He chooses. He sees and knows the thoughts and intentions of the heart, each heart, all of our hearts.
Some things God stops before they happen, because the time He gave to mankind's rule would end prematurely if He did not.
"For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened."
Matthew 24:21-22
Jesus returns when mankind's time is up. And He will come as the King of kings and Lord of lords. The decisions that would be made to follow Jesus or not, have already been made by the time He comes. There is no chance to change sides when we see Jesus coming in tue clouds with His troops.
If we study the Bible we can be more aware of the timeline of things. Much is scattered across the Old and New Testaments, and take some digging out, like a treasure hunt.
Why wouldn't we seek out that treasure? It is such an amazing study!
Stay strong! Live righteously in the time allotted you!
NAN
