Our future is towards Christ

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Here is something to ponder: the culmination of history is the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. All before looked toward it; all after look back to it.

No historical event since is bigger than it.

The Second Coming might even be connected with the time and event of the crucifixion. As a node of all time.

So this gives a point to fix the mind and perspective on. It changes how one thinks of history...views history. The past is alive. It's populated with the unregenerate though, which is a pageant of death, in terms of sin. As regenerate Christians, on the other hand, our brothers and sisters are in Heaven with Jesus.

It's getting complicated. I'm losing some confidence. Do the regenerated totally leave from historical time? Once they physically die as regenerate yes. This is what some call the rapture perhaps. Happening in all time. Ongoing. Until Christ returns in the new fullness of time.

But nuclear war would not be bigger an historical event than the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. Not the Black Plague, not the discovery of the New World, not World War II. Not the Industrial Revolution or the landing on the moon. (God knows what was happening in the pre-flood world regarding technology if you're looking for balance or symmetry and nothing new under the sun.)

So our future is towards Christ. Towards that culmination of history that is the death and resurrection, and the Second Coming. Both at that point in time.

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Which means we are receding from the future. We look back to see the future. We seem to be past our own flood event (perhaps the world firestorm of the last hundred years) because we are now doing the ultimate sin that was happening in the pre-flood era: the manipulation of God's creation at the DNA level. When we reach the Garden it will be a desolate version. Then Jesus comes - returns - into all time at that crucifixion node of all time (let's say 33 AD).

So the post-millennialists see a garden at the end, but it's a desolate garden. Amillennialists see shit at the end, like a desolate, dead garden, maybe scorched with fire and bespattered with dark blood and bone fragments.