From All Eternity to All Eternity - My Theory (2019/03/03)

I observed a concept while we were watching a film called Risen. This Roman Centurian is hunting for the people who stole the body of Jesus. The last time he had seen Jesus was when he crucified him. Jesus'  face had pain and misery on it from the ordeal he had just suffered through.  The film was graphic enough (but not gratuitously graphic) to give you a good sense of the pain inflicted from the tortue of being crucified.

He follows all the leads he gets to find the apostles. He bursts  into a room where some of Jesus' deciples are known to be. He sees Jesus sitting with the 12 apostles and some others. Jesus smiles at him.

It struck me that all the suffering and pain he went through doesn't matter any more because right now he is happy and painfree. This is the principle I've been exploring of "from all eternity to all eternity". When we make a growth, realization, gain knowledge, strengthen faith, etc. now, the benefit of it extends forward to eternity, but it also extends back to all eternity. So, my joy then will completely change my grief now, and it will no longer be grief.

From All Eternit to All Eternity

My theory.

The Lord says he is from all eternity to all eternity. Yet, he had a beginning. He had not always been in the state he is now. He also had to go through mortality. As I thought about that, I realized (theorized) that when he achieved his immortal, glorified status, it changes who he is to be in the future eternity, and also who he was in the past eternity. His current condition extends backwards through eternity just like it extends forward through all eternity.

When we make a growth, realization, gain knowledge, strengthen faith, etc. now, the benefit of it extends forward to eternity, but it also extends back to all eternity. His NOW is the same forward and backwards. That, I realize, also emcompases the concept in the Lord's statement, I AM as his name.