All of History is Present before God

All of earth’s history lies bare before Almighty God,

Its past, its present, its future is expressed in His Holy Word,

He who was in the beginning is still the Great I AM,

He who was crucified to save us was no ordinary man.

I once use to think a man could die before his time,

I held to that and argue; this was how I opined

But then it occurred to me if this was possibly true

The Bible, God’s Word couldn’t give an exact preview.

It records the times of man from beginning to the end

Thousands of years of history and into the future extend,

Not billions of years as misguided scientists report

But only thousands of years as the Bible clearly purports.

Let’s examine the idea that all of History is written

And that from the Great I AM not one iota is hidden;

He who was in the beginning did not then begin

But was before the beginning and only created it then.

Now for this to happen there must have been eternity

And an eternal being too to create such a possibility,

For where else could the beginning have originated

Outside an eternal God and the time that He created?

Clearly time is a segment with a beginning and an end,

It doesn’t take rocket science such a position to defend,

This is where the Bible premised its record of History

As the Eternal God created this timeline way out in eternity.

Why should it be a wonder that He knows it all in detail?

Why should we marvel as though hearing a fairy tale?

How could it all begin with no one to start its process?

Surely there must be someone to withstand time’s greatest test.

God is that someone that stands the test of all time,

Yes, He is that someone that started time’s clock to unwind,

It has been ticking away thousands not billions of years

And the future of its history doesn’t catch Him unawares.

So then if before Almighty God all history is revealed

This means its past, present and future already is a done deal,

Having been written already how can it be rearranged?

Even Pilate confessed what he wrote could not be changed.

  

Pilate was following History even if he did not know,

Remember Jesus told the Baptist suffice it to be so,

Jesus went through Samaria; he knew the course of time,

He was in the beginning; he knew its rhythm and rhyme.

Then, how could this God create a person to be damned?

Did He not know the destiny that awaited that woman or man?

O yes he did, for He knows the destiny of everyone

For while history is unfolding to us to Him it is already gone.

How for example could God change what has already passed?

For Almighty God even such would be an impossible task,

For what is written is written and all that is known to Him

And should he change the past that would be a horrid sin.

That would impede man’s choice that God has given freely

And in a real sense too subtract from God’s sovereignty,

For within these two realities is a balance as delicate as ever

And to change the course of time one or both would be severed.

What would He do in Eden when both our fore parents sinned?

Would he reverse the event?  That would be foreign to Him.

What then would be the sequel?  Would Jesus still have come?

Would we still have had the choice to be a part of His Kingdom?

And what about Hitler and the like of tyrannical attitude?

Would God expunge from our mind these unscrupulous dudes?

What about Noah’s ministry with not a single convert?

Would God change all that so that the flood he could avert?

You would notice in Isaiah that a future event was written

In the past tense, as if the Saviour already had been smitten,

He was wounded and was bruised and for us all was stricken

Yet at the time of Isaiah’s writing God’s Son had not yet been given.

The authenticity of God’s word is sealed in prophetic utterance,

What it says will come to pass in spite of men’s defiance,

For the promises of God are yea and His decrees are very sure,

Heaven and earth will pass away but His word stands forevermore,

 

All history has been written with man’s choices and his faults,

It’s more secure than an impregnable bank with its money vault,

It cannot be altered for God has no such intention,

All of history has been set from the beginning of creation.

  

So that we are not making History we are simply in its grip,

Every act and accomplishment forms a part of the chronicled trip.

We may feel we changed our mind and perhaps we really did

But regarding altering History’s course that’s what God forbids.

I hear you say, “This is fatalism for what will be will be

And it really doesn’t matter since I have no say in my destiny.”

That’s not entirely true, as a matter of fact, not even partly so

For in God’s word, the Bible, we’re told all we need to know.

A sower went forth to sow and he sowed indiscriminately,

The seed was scattered near and far with random diversity,

Just like the seed from that sower the Gospel is so designed

For everyone everywhere to hear, that means all of human kind.

For the Word of God declared that the Gospel shall be preached

In Judea and Samaria and until the ends of the earth are reached

So that every man that hears will be left without excuse

Particularly so when such a man treats God’s word as refuse.

He that does not believe is already condemned

Because he believes not on him whom the Father did send,

So that it really does matter for if today you hear His voice

Harden not your heart but earnestly make Him your choice.

For choice is the God-given say that we now have in this matter

Hell or Heaven our destiny and we should choose the latter,

For while it is true that in God’s eye all of History is written

The Bible also declares he who calls on the Lord will be forgiven.

All of earth’s history lies bare before Almighty God,

Its past, its present, its future is expressed in His Holy Word,

He who was in the beginning is still the Great I AM,

He who rejects the Saviour will be eternally damned.

Stewart Russell © 2016