The reason that Jesus Christ is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world is because
God exists outside of time.
We are limited to a certain time and place, aren't we?
So I can only be in one place at a time.
If I'm here, I'm not in California.
And if I'm in California, I'm not in Arizona.
I can only be in one place at one time.
But I can also only be in a single time.
I'm only inhabiting at this moment, this minute.
But see, God dwells outside of time.
The Bible says God inhabits eternity in Isaiah 57, 15.
The Bible says that to God, a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like
a day.
That doesn't mean that He's just – it just goes by real fast for Him.
Like man, a thousand years goes by and it's just like a day to Him.
It just really blows by.
No, that's not what that's saying.
What it's saying is that God looks at a thousand years like He looks at a day.
Why?
Because He dwells outside of time.
We are stuck in a moment of time.
Now let me try to illustrate this for you.
It's sort of like if you're sitting in a movie theater watching a movie, right, and
the movie has a start and an end and the movie's playing.
You can only see one frame at a time, right?
At any given moment, you're only looking at one frame, right?
Okay, let's say we were to go up into the booth where the projector is and unspool the
entire movie, right?
Unspool the entire movie and have all the frames and lay them all out and God can basically
look at all the frames all at the same time.
Does everybody understand?
Like we're stuck in a certain moment, you know, I'm one hour and three minutes into
the movie of my life, hopefully it's feature length, hopefully it's got a long intermission
and it's a nice long movie, but I'm an hour and three minutes into the movie, that's where
I am and I can only see this moment right here, right?
And I can remember, oh yeah, I remember earlier in the movie this happened, but I'm only able
to see one frame at a time because I'm in my seat.
God can unspool the entire movie and look at what?
Every frame at the same time.
So God is not going through time like we are, God is outside of time and he's able to observe
and he knows the end from the beginning and he can see all of it and listen to me, it's
all already happened because in the book of Revelation, it's all described as having all
already happened.
Did you know what the first seal has been opened?
The second seal, the third seal, all the trumpets have sounded, all the vials have been poured
out, the judgment has happened, the new heaven, the new earth, it all already happened, that's
why there's a book about it happening.
Now you say, well, it's going to happen.
Yeah, but John already watched it happen, you understand, because it already happened
from God's perspective.
Now from our perspective, it hasn't happened yet, right?
So where we're sitting in 2018, obviously, yeah, the end of the world hasn't happened
yet, but from God's perspective, it all already happened and John was shown things from the
end, he was shown like, here, let me show you the end of the movie, does everybody understand?
And then he was put back in his seat to finish his movie, okay.
So the point is that when in Revelation chapter 7, when you have a great multitude appear
in heaven at the rapture of all kindreds, tongues, and nations, a great innumerable
multitude, guess what?
I was in that crowd.
John has already seen me.
John has already seen you.
Now I don't know if he noticed us, you know, hopefully we were in a prominent place, like
that.
But the thing is, he saw all of us.
Well, okay, pray tell me, if he didn't see us, who was he looking at?
He's looking at all the believers of all time, all gathered together in a great multitude.
Folks, that already happened.
He already saw us.
We're already there.
It's as good as done.
So look, this is what's so stupid about this dispensational doctrine that says, oh, in
the Old Testament, well, Jesus just hadn't died yet.
So nobody can go to heaven because Jesus hasn't died yet.
He's the lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
You know why people in the Old Testament could go to heaven?
Because Jesus died for them.
Well, I'm going to have to be, well, you think God's just worried it's not going to happen
or something?
Well, what if he pulls out in the Garden of Gethsemane, you know, better not let anybody
into heaven until the deal is sealed.
Folks, the deal was sealed.
The works were finished from the foundation of the world.
So God didn't have to wait until it actually happened in our timeline.
Why?
Because Jesus Christ died for all the sins of the world, past, present, and future.
I mean, Jesus died for us 2,000 years before we were even born.
How did he do that?
Because he's outside of time.
So, look down at your Bible in Isaiah 53, verse 5, and imagine the prophet Isaiah preaching
this.
Seven hundred years before Jesus died on the cross, he said he was wounded for our transgressions.
He was bruised for our iniquities.
The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes, we are healed.
Look, Isaiah was healed by the stripes that would be applied to the back of Jesus Christ
seven to eight hundred years later.
The blood of Christ saved Isaiah.
The blood of Christ saved Adam and Eve.
So this ridiculous idea that Jesus had not died yet, so therefore people can't go to
heaven, or that Jesus is somehow not the lamb slain from the foundation of the world is
just ridiculous.
Obviously, it's like a thousand years, like a day.
God sees the whole picture, the whole story, the whole movie at once, and so it's not that
Jesus died twice.
That truly would be ridiculous.
It's that Jesus Christ died on the cross 2,000 years ago, but that was already as good as
done before the world even began.
Because the whole timeline's there.
God's looking at the whole timeline.
There it is.
The whole movie's there.
Now this doesn't eliminate free will or anything like that, because God knowing all things
and seeing all things and everything having already happened doesn't mean that we don't
have a choice.
It's just that we already made that choice.
God already knows what choices we're going to make.
I mean, whatever decisions I'm going to make tomorrow, God already knows.
He's already seen that part of the movie.