From everlasting to everlasting

In Psalms, chapter ninety, verse two, “from everlasting to everlasting” refers to God’s eternal existence, having neither beginning nor end. “Everlasting” does not necessarily mean that God transcends time, but rather connotes His endless duration in time, as in Psalms forty-eight, verse fourteen, Genesis twenty-one, verse thirty-three, Job ten, verse five, and chapter thirty-six, verse six, respectively. Scripture does not teach that God exists in some eternal present, past, or future. Those passages in Scripture that affirm God’s eternity do so in terms of continuation, not timelessness. God knows the past as the past, the present as the present, and the future as the future.

In the New Testament, at the beginning of John four, verse twenty-four, “God is a Spirit.” There is a gospel song where part of it mentions:

Will you look for me up yonder,

In the moment in the sky

where the saints shout Hallelujah

and never say goodbye

where the saints will live forever,

and the spirit never dies,

will you look for me up yonder,

in the moment in the sky.

God has always been there. In the middle of Mark twelve, verse twenty-six, “Have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?” God has always been there for those who came and passed. In Colossians one, verse sixteen, “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.” I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.”

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