Page 58 - THE REVELATION OF THE THIRD HEAVEN and THE MEAT OF THE WORD

Time, tense and identity switch suddenly backwards and forwards from Jerusalem,
the Church and Jesus and from the time ‘before’ Jesus, to ‘after’ in Isaiah 52:9-15.
The future is described as the past in Isaiah 53:3, 8, 10 and in verse 12 the ‘I’ is
God. Sometimes the time of writing is referred to as the applicable time period
and not the time of the reader and in this sense the meaning is not literally true in
the factual sense of today's time (Josh 8:29, 1 Kings 12:19, 2 Kings 17:34, 41, 2
Chron 5:9). In terms of meaning the time of writing is sometimes distinct to the
time of the reader and sometimes not and this requires discernment (Josh 8:29,1
Kings 12:19, 2 Kings 2:22, Mat 24:35). Sometimes both the time, place and
culture of the speaker is the context, making the statement not literally true today
(Mat 10:29). It is futile saying that such inaccuracy does not count as non-literal
truth as other statements, spoken at a specific time and place and in a certain
cultural context are applicable across all time, place and culture (John 3:3). Where
the Word is factually wrong, it is deliberately and knowingly so in order to make a
point (Psalm 78:1-2) and is also always spiritually correct (Psalm 78:1-2). In this
sense it is inerrant as the factual ‘error’ was intended (Psalm 12:6, 78:1-2).

The seamless nature of transference and it suddenness is awesome and to our
minds confuses the logical train of thought to such a degree as to appear to us a
form of ‘delirium’ but remember God as Creator is unbounded by our dimensions
of time, space and, in a sense, personal identity. For example in Jeremiah 11:18,
the ‘I’ is Jeremiah whilst the second ‘I’ immediately after it (Jer 11:19) is Jesus as
Jesus did know what people were conspiring against Him, as is made clear in the
following verse when it says that God knows the heart and mind (Jer 11:20).

‘This day’ can refer to the time of writing (Jer 25:18). The present tense can also
refer to the time alluded to in the narrative, rather than the reader’s time (1 Sam
19:24).

In Hosea 6:2 there is transference between the identity of Jesus and the ‘us’. The
two days of reviving refer to the preaching in Prison and the third day of raising
refers to Jesus’ resurrection, which because it allows for the regeneration of the
‘us’ by the Christian faith is called a raising of the ‘us’. (Hos 6:2).

In Nehemiah 4:4 the speaker (Nehemiah, a man of God) changes without
introduction from the speaker in the previous verse (Tobiah the Ammonite
ridiculing the work of a man of God). So the tone, message, spiritual source and
speaker all change without identification or explanatory statement.