If I were to ask: “what was the first thing God created”? Most would probably say: “the heavens and the earth” but that would be inaccurate. The very first thing He created in the beginning was “the beginning”. Reshiyth is “the beginning” of chronological time. After God created chronological time He created a physical universe that could exist within the parameters of that chronological time… unlike the “kingdom” He resides in.

 

When someone says: “God forgave all my sins, past, present and future” it isn’t actually making provision for forgiveness but rather making provision for sin. Another thing, and most pertinent to this article, is that the “present” technically doesn’t exist in this “epoch” or realm of chronological time. Time simply moves seamlessly from future to past bypassing “present” altogether. If “now” existed here for even a fraction of a second (which it doesn’t) by the time it’s acknowledged or processed in the physical brain or consciousness, it would already be past. “Present” is an intellectual ratification, a theory invented to fill in the imaginary gap between the future and past of this hollow existence. Am I saying the present doesn’t exist at all? Not in the least, just that it doesn’t exist in this “physical universe”.

 

God (the great “I am”) exists eternally in the present. In His presence time and space, as we’ve come to know them, do not exist anything remotely like what we experience here. Think of it as God dividing the present into past and future specifically for this realm only. Why? For that, look all the way back to before “in the beginning”.

 

Elohim (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) existed and also moved in the process of creation before “the beginning” of time. Lucifer (Serpent) for instance is mentioned in the garden but not in the creation process of the physical universe of Genesis because he and the entire “heavenly host” were created before “the beginning”. Did God know this “angel of light” would sin and cast one third of the stars (host) down to the earth to be lost forever? Of course He knew it, that’s what omniscient means, but He was willing to accept that loss… for our sake.

 

Why then, did He create us outside of His eternal presence in a realm where only past and future exists instead of as He did with the heavenly host? By doing this, He afforded us the unprecedented opportunity of redemption through learning from our mistakes (repentance), a concept which simply doesn’t exist in His presence. He did all this because He intended to have a company of living beings eternally in His presence with free will AND the unique capacity to contain and reflect His love and character… His children!