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by Dale Krebbs
“The edge of eternity”!, “from here to eternity”!
Movie makers have used the word eternity to create movies to illustrate the finality of actions taken in stories of everything from western gunfighters to supplicated speculations about the destruction of the earth and even the universe. Why this play on the word eternity?
The Bible holds a clue:
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He also has planted eternity in men’s hearts and minds [a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy], yet so that men cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.” - Ecclesiastes 3:11
In our world of continuous accumulation of rote knowledge, scientific, medical, etc., there seems to be no end to it. The accumulation of all types of knowledge piles higher and higher with each passing day. So much that sophisticated equipment must be designed in order to keep track. Knowledge is accumulated just for knowledge sake, regardless of usefulness or wisdom of doing so.
The Bible states that this would occur in the last days (Daniel 12:4).
Eternity and time are often referred to in the same context. Strictly speaking, “time” is a creation by God. “Eternity” does not exist outside of the reality of a God who is eternal and therefore timeless. Outside of God there is no such thing (if you call time a thing) as time. Time is a utility of God for measuring events. Therefore, outside of this usefulness, time does not exist except as a measurement of what God creates and chooses to use. Therefore, since He created it, it only exist and will exist in and from Him.
If there is any knowledge that should shake humanity to the core, it should be this reality. The Bible is replete with references eternity, eternal, and forever. The most important to mankind (also made by God), are the references to “eternal life” (a product produced by God) resulting in a life that mankind can experience even as God does. We often refer to and use the word “forever”, another way to describe eternity as it relates to Christians.
If you and I are breathing in and out right now, as I’m sure we are, we are living beings. There is something in us that is extra-special to God, and should also be to us. In every human, there is a spirit given that will never die. This “spirit” is the real us. It will live forever, heaven with God, or in a place and condition of punishment.
Therefore, we will spend “eternity” somewhere, in some way. If we believe in Jesus Christ, that He died and is now alive again, He will also raise us up to spend eternal life with Him in a splendor totally imaginable. Otherwise, if we reject believing in and living in Christ, there is the other alternative. The unbeliever will be judged by Him, and be thrown into a lake of fire wherein is a type of punishment that will never end.
Therefore, being a human being with an eternal spirit is very serious indeed. The word eternity is the most important word in all of creation; the earth, the galaxies, and the endless universe.
Playing with eternity is dangerous beyond words. Where do you want to spend your eternity?
"For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten ([b]unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life. For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him." - John 3:16-17
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