TIME OR ETERNITY (Part 2)

TIME OR ETERNITY (Part 2)

God had opened the envelope every time He had given a prophet a glimpse of what was coming. Think about it. How could anyone accurately predict a future event, unless God, who exists in eternity, outside of time, revealed it to him?

He stepped out of eternity into time to give an old priest and his childless wife hope.

A child to an old couple. He was to be the one the prophets predicted, a messenger in the wilderness, one who announced the arrival of the coming savior.

His name was John.

A cousin of Jesus.

He would reveal that light that had been since the beginning, the One who carried the eternal life. The One who was in the world already, who had been born six months after John, miraculously in Bethlehem, as the prophets had predicted, even though his parents were from Nazareth, a town about 100 miles away.

John was out in the country, preaching to large crowds, telling them to turn their lives back to their God, to turn away from their wicked ways.

He told them that the eternal kingdom was about to be revealed.

How did he know?

The envelope had been opened.

John 1: 6-9

There was a man sent from God whose name was John.

He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe.

He himself was not  the light; he came only as a witness to the light.

The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.