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Time

There is an eternal ‘present’ (Ecc 3:15) which God inhabits (Psalm 90:4, 2 Pet 3:8,
Rev 22:13). As a result His Word reflects this and is not written with a normal
tense sense. Time as a linear experience, that is as we understand it, will end at the
end of the second tribulation (Rev 10:6). The fact of star death is acknowledged in
the Word without any qualification as to the time taken (Job 9:7). The ‘beginning’
of God and of his Creation is therefore accomplished in a mysterious unit of time
(Job 36:26).

There is a duality principle in the future as there was in the past for there are two
resurrections (Rev 20:5, 12). These are separated by the 1,000 year (God’s time)
reign of Christ and his priests (or Christians) on Earth (Psalm 37:9-10, 46:10,
47:5, 9, 67:4, 1 Cor 15:52, Rev 20:6).

It is the last time (1 John 2:18) between now and the second coming of Christ.
Time will cease to be experienced at the end of the second tribulation period (Rev
10:6).

The sequence of events as we understand time is as follows. It should be noted
that many of these events overlap and all exist in a kind of eternal present from
God’s eternal perspective, making what follows somewhat artificial, arbitrary and
a necessary over-simplification.

God exists and creates (Gen 1:1, John 1:1).

Satan rebelled (Ezek 28:15, Rev 12:3). He could then be on Earth or to be more
exact in the spirit world of the Earth (Job 1:6-7, John 7:7, 15:19), or in Heaven
(Job 1:6-7, Rev 12:3, 10) or the parabolical Garden of Eden (Gen 3:1) having the
necessary multi-presence for his role which is to test, tempt, steal, kill and destroy
which he does under license from God (Job 1:12, Dan 9:13, John 10:10).

He caused a third of the angels to follow him (Rev 12:4). They were then cast
down to Earth by Satan (Rev 12:4) but some at least could remain in some sense in
Heaven (2 Chron 18:18-22).

God condemned all the fallen angels to chains of darkness in Hell and their default

position is eternal damnation (2 Peter 2:4). A place exists called Hell where, by
default, devil spirits and, later, Satan are placed (Ezek 28:15, 2 Peter 2:4-5).