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 suffer 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
