You have probably heard before that to God, a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like a day. The Prophets, through God, were able to tell us the future, thousands of years before it comes to pass. Some of the events happening today has been foretold in the Bible thousands of years ago. How is that possible?
God does not age as we do, and is not governed by time as we are. Though we were created in the image of God, we are nothing like Him.
Imagine a huge table with hour-glasses - billions and billions of hour-glasses. Each hour glass represents an individual at some point in the history of the world, from the first person on earth to the last. On the bottom of each hour-glass is written the name and birth date of that individual. The size of the bottle-neck of the hour-glass is different: some are wide, others are narrow, some have no neck at all. Similarly, some hour-glasses have a lot of sand in it, some little, some nothing at all.
Now, Gods turn each hour-glass over at random, and as soon as God does that, the sand starts to flow down through the neck. The sand represents our life. Some individuals will have a long life, some short, some none at all. Some start their life a thousand years ago, some are living today, some have not yet been born.
It does not matter which hour-glass God turns first - He could turn the hour-glass of Bill Clinton first, then George Washington's, but still Washington will appear ahead of Clinton in the course of history, because each individual will appear on earth according to the birth date on his hour-glass. The length of time given to each individual on earth is according to the speed and amount of sand running through his hour-glass.
God knows the whole history of our life on earth before we start this life. Anybody who thinks he can be equal to God is a fool. God could easily say, "Oh please, you're nothing but an hour glass on the table, one of plenty!"
The above allegory illustrate how God knows the entire story of mankind even before the first man was born. God is in control of who gets born first, who comes next, who comes last. So the concept of time, the time that rules our life on earth, is totally immaterial to God, who is above and beyond it.
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