In the original Star Trek series, there were instances when the spaceship and crew would end up thrown into a past time. It was always a rule that the crew would understand that they could not dare change anything that happens while they are in the past, otherwise it would change the future to which they hoped to return. It is an interesting concept that changing the past will change the present and the future. What would we change in the past, in order to make a better today or tomorrow?
Scripture has some very interesting verses that, I think, touching on this very concept. If we think that this could not be possible, understanding that God is eternal, and not bound by our limitation of time and space, makes this concept very possible indeed! God existed before time, He exists within time, and He will exist when time ceases. The following verses are very interesting in regard to this concept:
"And Elisha said to him, "Take a bow and some arrows." So he took himself a bow and some arrows. Then he said to the king of Israel, "Put your hand on the bow." So he put his hand on it, and Elisha put his hands on the king's hands.
And he said, "Open the east window"; and he opened it. Then Elisha said, "Shoot"; and he shot.
And he said, "The arrow of the LORD's deliverance and the arrow of deliverance from Syria; for you must strike the Syrians at Aphek till you have destroyed them."
2 Kings 13:15-17
Elisha was a great prophet in Israel. He was the prophet who received a double-portion of the anointing that had been on the prophet Elijah's life (2 Kings 2:9). A prophet speaks into the present and into the future, according to how the LORD reveals it to him to speak.
In the scriptures above, we see the prophet laying his hands over the king's hands as the king shoots the arrow from the bow. The anointing of the prophet for the present and the future is being applied to that arrow. The word "arrow" means to divide, or cut off. It is associated with lightning, as well. We can visualize how a bolt of lightning splits through, and divides, the darkness of the night.
This arrow is being shot through an open window. The window, according to its meaning, pierces through a wall. It is an opening into something that otherwise would not be open to us. Just as the piercing of Jesus opened something for us. It opened His vessel, or body, that His blood might poor out in one direction, but it also allowed something to be opened to us that we would be able to enter into something we would not otherwise have been able to access: that supernatural piercing of a wall of separation between us and our Father caused by our sin.
In the above verses, the arrow is being shot into an eastward direction through that open window. The word for "eastward" is the word kedeem in Hebrew, and it is a powerful word. It means antiquity, that which is before, ancient time, earliest time. The root meaning is to go before, to be in front. This arrow, spoken of above, is going through that open window and back into an ancient time, back into even the earliest time.
This arrow is called the arrow of the LORD's deliverance. It is an arrow of liberation and victory. It is an arrow of opulence and ample space. That arrow carries the shout of the LORD with it into the past, to confront something that existed from the earliest time.
The effect of that confrontation in the past, will have effects on the present and the future for Israel.
Israel is threatened by an enemy, Syria, even as it is in our times and current events. The word "Syria" means to exalt oneself. It means to be a fortress on a high place. This is a spirit that desires to enclose and oppress God's people - then and now.
The place where the king of Israel is told he will confront Syria in his present time is called "Aphek". "Aphek" also means a strong enclosure, a fortified city. It was located in Lebanon, and it was famous for being the location of a temple to the goddess Venus. Venus also carries many strong spiritual meanings, both as a planet, and in mythology.
As a planet, Venus is also known as the Morning Star, and as the Evening Star, because it shines the brightest after the moon, in the night sky. Venus is a sister planet to the earth meaning that in size it is very similar. However, Venus is so toxic, that it cannot support life. It's atmosphere is composed of sulfuric acid. It is hostile to life in every way. In mythology, Venus, although associated with beauty, fertility and love, those qualities are corrupted to be spiritually hostile to man. Venus is associated with enticement and seduction. The Latin root of the name Venus is venenum, meaning "poison". Venus is the goddess of prostitutes. Venus "absorbs and tempers the male essence", according to the words of one source. Enough said about Venus!
So, going back to the verses, the LORD's arrow of deliverance goes back into the earliest time in the past to deal with spiritual strongholds that affect the present and future condition of man.
The reach of the LORD is not limited. Powers and Principalities that existed from the earliest times, cannot escape His reach. His arrow of deliverance changes the past, present and future.
Our Father is Timeless.
"The Timeless Christ"
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