Vol 1 Number 6 Time

Time.
Before time, what was there...?
Time is a measurement of basic seconds, minutes and hours. Was there measurement of time "in the beginning?" Some scholars have answered, "NO" and then proceeded to inform us that before "time" there was only eternity.
I suggest that the genesis of time itself was overlapped in and by eternity. Now the two not only exist, but they co-exist.
One thing for certain is that time wasn't new to the Godhead even though they lived in eternity.
Some have pontificated that at the genesis of creation the Godhead did not know "Time" only eternity. But that could not be due the fact that God is The Godhead. The All -knowing is all knowing.
Why so much about time? Only to propose the aforementioned questioned, "Before time, what was there?"
My answer---the Godhead---the ageless purpose of the Godhead that underscores all the mystery of why are we here?
This ageless purpose is the revealing of a mystery. Something that has been hidden but is being revealed. Paul stated in Eph. 3:4,5 that "the mystery of Christ...has now been revealed by the Spirit to God's holy apostles and prophets." He then later went on to say that this "great mystery...I speak of concerning Christ and the chuch." Eph. 5:31,32
So why ask,"before time, what was there?" is to suggest that within the Godhead the mystery, the Church, has always been the ageless purpose or drama that the Godhead has sought to unveil.
The church referred to here is not the institution or the system of religion that we see all too often today broken in fragments around the world called denominations or even 'movements', but the true church that Jesus himself said that he would build and that the gates of hell will not prevail against it. These broken fragments are not the ones that I see being victorious in these latter days. It is this one unfolding romantic drama that not only survives but remain strong and fluent. This is a priceless girl, so expensive that only the blood of God could puchase her. She is the divine representation. A drama that has been set to the opening music of a beautiful romance.
This purpose, this drama, this mystery is and has been in the Godhead waiting to be revealed or better yet to be reflected back to the Godhead. As if to say, the Godhead was pregnant with all of creation including the Church.

Well, that's me, Jus Thinkin' . Part 2 later.