You know, everybody
has a timeline-- a time when we begin and a time
where, as King David once said, we all go the way
of all the earth. And in between the beginning and
the end of each of our personal timelines are all of
these epic events. They're measured
and they're noted and they have very
significant impacts upon the direction
of our lives as we travel through the
flow of time within our own respective timelines. But do we even
know what time is? Now you and I, we say things
like in the nick of time. We say things like time
flies, time marches on, time on our hands,
a stitch in time, passing time, doing time,
killing time, wasting time, losing time, on time,
for the time being. And how many epic books
have began with the term , "And once upon a time"? But exactly how time
conscious are we? Do we even know what time
is actually even for? Now here's what I can tell you. Time is God's way of
keeping everything from happening at once. Time is created by God Almighty
for the purposes of redemption. God is not subject to time. He is not confined to time
in any way whatsoever. He is eternal. And He rules both
time and eternity. And He can step into time and
He can also pull out of time any time He pleases. God is with us right
now in our time frame. And He is with us in our past. He is also with us in
our future time frames. And this is what you and
I need to understand. He's in all three of
those places right now. The apostle Paul warned us that
in these very dangerous days, we need to learn how
to bring redemption into every single
moment of the timelines that you and I are
responsible for stewarding. Hello, my friends. My name is Troy Brewer. And over the next
few minutes, we're going to discover the prophetic
gift of living life according to destiny instead of
history, walking victoriously, and something that I call
future present tense. It's the mystery of
redeeming time right now on Dreams and Mysteries. [music playing] NARRATOR: This is
Dreams and Mysteries. OK, my friends. Let's go back in time. I mean way, way,
way back in time. Now in order for you
and I to have a glimpse into the very beginning
of all timelines, we have to be able to look
at how God Almighty revealed the whole creation story
through Moses to all of us. So let's go to Exodus
33, starting at verse 17. So the Lord said to
Moses, "I will also do this thing that you
have spoken, for you have found grace in my sight. And I know you by name." And he, Moses, said,
"Please show me your glory." And then God said, "I will
make all of my goodness pass before you. And I will proclaim the
name of the Lord before you. And I will be gracious to
whom I will be gracious. And I will have compassion upon
whom I will have compassion." But He said, "You
cannot see my face, for no man shall
see me and live." And the Lord said,
"Here's a place by me. And you shall stand on the rock. And so it shall be that
while my glory passes by, that I will put you in
the cleft of the rock. And I will cover you with
my hand while I pass by. Then I will take away my hand
and you shall see my back. But my face shall not be seen." You see, Moses had gone
to the top of the mountain and he had seen the
backside of God. And in a tiny glimpse
of God's glory, Moses saw the goodness of God
from that moment backwards. All of it. Every good thing God had
done and every good way God had been in the past,
Moses saw all of it in a game changing
glimpse of God's backside. So when Moses put his ancient
feather to his animal skin canvas that would become
the very first Bible, these were the epic words that
Moses would introduce the world to the written word of God. "In the beginning, God created
the heaven and the earth." Genesis 1:1. So it says in the
beginning, that's time, God created the
heaven, that's space, and the earth, that's matter. So in the beginning, God
created time, space, and matter. So the very first premise
to understanding the mystery of redeeming time is this. Time is created by God. Time is subject to God. And God is not subject to time. Now according to
Genesis 1:1, God created time, matter, and space. And He created it
with his power. And his power--
well, He has power over every single bit of
that time, matter, and space. And when I say
that He has power, I mean Jesus Christ
can step into and He can step out of
any time that He pleases. So let's unpack that
just a little bit. Now if you take a
look at the book-- and now I'm talking
about the Bible-- you can see that there is
a very distinct difference between the Old Testament
and the New Testament. The Old Testament
ends like this. "Lest I come and smite
the Earth with a curse." Boom. That's Malachi
chapter 4 verse 5. Then you go over to the
end of the New Testament and the New Testament
ends like this. "May the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen." That's Revelation 22 verse 21. So with Jesus, our
Messiah Redeemer, we have moved from a
threat to a promise, from punishment to grace, and
from a curse to a blessing. Now this is what happens
when Jesus Christ steps into absolutely any time frame. And I love that. Now the book is
divided that way. And also recordable time itself
is marked as before Jesus-- that's known as BC-- and then after Jesus. And that's known as AD. But this is also the way that
our own lives as believers should also look. Now our lives are one
thing before Jesus and then our lives are a
completely different thing after Jesus. So like the Bible, and like
time itself, our life lines are divided with the game
changing marker of the entrance of the Lord Jesus Christ. However, a funny thing
starts to happen after you continue to learn Jesus. You start to see Him--
just glimpses at first-- through typology and through
shadows and prophetic things. But you actually begin to see
Jesus in the Old Testament. Then after a little
while longer, as you read in
places like Genesis chapter 18 and like Genesis
chapter 32 and over in Judges chapter 13, Jesus
himself just flat out shows up thousands
of years before He was born in Bethlehem. What's He doing in this
part of the timeline? Now, theologians refer
to the appearances of God in these past passages
and others just like them as theophanies,
or Christophanies. And that actually means
the appearance of Christ or the appearance of
Jesus respectively. So know this. There are biblical precedents
for many appearances of Jesus in a timeline where
Jesus doesn't actually show up until way later
in the same timeline. Christians generally agree
that the above passages, and many others
just like that, that mention the angel of
the Lord are appearances of the preincarnate Christ. Now preincarnate means Christ
before He came in the flesh. Just some of the
characteristics of the angel are given in various
passages like this. He's always referred to
in a masculine pronoun. He's identified as God in Judges
6:11 and Zechariah 12 verse 8. He performs miracles. Gideon and Manoah
themselves both thought that they would die because
they saw the angel face to face. In other words, they
saw the face of God. The angel accurately
foretold future events. That's definitely a trait
of the Lord Jesus Christ. And then finally,
His name is called Wonderful in Judges
chapter 13 verse 18. And in the prophecy of
Isaiah chapter 9 verse 6, that's the name of the Messiah. Hey, Jesus, we see you here. And it's just like
finding a 747 jet some 3,000 years before
the Wright brothers ever took flight. It's like finding
an iPhone encased in some kind of a
weird Egyptian tomb. Jesus Christ in the Old
Testament, what does that mean? It means this. Jesus Christ is a time traveler. So there are more biblical
and practical precedents than we can name here for the
reality that Jesus can step in and Jesus can step out of
any timeline ever created for any purpose. He does it. And He does it often. And not only is Jesus
a time traveler, but sometimes He takes
people along for the ride. You know what? He took John out
of space and time and He planted him
thousands of years into the future to see all of
the events that are recorded within the Book of Revelation. Then He simply put him
back in the flow of time that He had originally
pulled him out of. So Jesus Christ can not
only enter any time frame, He can actually re-enter a
timeline before He officially entered it. So my friends, God is
not subject to time. Time is subject to God. [music playing] DREAMER: I Dreamed I had a
whole bunch of people over at my house, And people were randomly
coming to see me. As we talked, I would start
polishing their shoes. Looking back it seems strange,
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kinds of people. (Squeaking noises) LITTLE GIRL:
You missed a spot. (Fast squeaking noises) DREAMER: This is what we
would call a "calling dream". It reveals something that God
gifted me to accomplish. Shoes often represent
someone's walk; their activity, what
they are doing. This dream shows that
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activity and walk in the best way possible. In addition, this will
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to learn more. Welcome back. People who study time,
not mere mortals like you and I, but scientists,
physicists, and people with these giant 50 pound heads,
they like to study Einstein. The world famous
German Jewish Einstein had an amazing thinker
under all of that wild hair. And if you look up
the word genius, his picture is probably right
there beside the definition. Now inevitably,
those who study him and those who study his
life will eventually learn of a giant cuckoo
clock in Bern, Switzerland. Now God used this clock to mess
with Einstein's brilliant mind and bring a profound revelation
of how time actually works. It's the equivalent of
Newton's apple moment. But this one comes with
a gong and dancing bears. Bern, Switzerland is
a beautifully, well, it's a majestic city. And it's surrounded by
mountains with a river bending through it. The clock sits in the middle of
majestic medieval architecture and it sounds off in three
different tones with dancing bears and a crested rooster
at the top of every hour. One day, while on
a 1905 street car, Einstein quit thinking about
his wife and his love affair with Lina, his cherished violin. As his street car moved
farther away from the clock, he had a supernatural
epiphany that would change the world view of the universe. His theory of special relativity
is the cornerstone today of our understanding of
how time and matter relate to each other. Now I don't know much
about all of that, but I had my own thunderstruck
revelation on how time works. And I need to be able
to explain to you. About 90 years after
that special event, I was sitting in my truck on
Farm Road 917 in Joshua, Texas waiting on a train to pass. Now Joshua, Texas, unlike
Switzerland, is flat and it's not very pretty. There's no beautiful river
running through it at all. But there is something that you
can see at least three times every hour and it's
quite an event. A never ending, all
day lineup of 100 plus graffiti covered box
cars and coal carrying trains. It's a miserable event
because every train takes at least 10 minutes
and typically another train is waiting. And Joshua is the highest
point in Johnson County. So the big engines
move extremely slowly before picking up speed and
allowing traffic to get by. It was a summer day. And once again, I was the victim
of the old Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway. And I was watching these
cars pass by in front of me very slowly and one at a time. And at about train
number 40, I looked and I couldn't tell how long the
train actually was going to be. And I wished I had a
drone or a helicopter to get an aerial view of the
entire length of the train. So in my head, I
begin to visualize what that train was going to
look like from way above it. I didn't have anything
else to do anyway. And all of a sudden, boom. Eureka. As I imagined this
aerial view, I instantly had a crazy cool
revelation and I knew that God Almighty
was speaking to me. Now what I'm about
to share with you is the third and most
important premise to the key to understanding the
revelation of redeeming time. We have to be able
to look at the train as if it is a
timeline of our life. See, my view of time is so
myopic or near-sighted that I can only perceive the moment
or the part of the train that I'm walking in right now. But God's view of
time is not limited because He is not
subject to time at all. He's not just on the train,
He's actually above the train. And He can see the beginning and
the end of the train right now. So what I'm saying is
that right now, God can see the beginning
and the end of your life and the middle of
your life right now. Your experience is
limited to the right now. But God's right
now sees all of it. Let's take a look
at life's timeline. We'll look at a world
history timeline and then we'll look at
our own personal timeline. Follow me over here. OK, my friends. Right here behind, we
have an excellent example of what a linear timeline
beginning at the fall of Adam all the way to the great white
throne judgment and something that I would call
eternity future. Right? OK, so this is how it works. There are 2000 years
from Adam to Abraham. There are 2000
years from Abraham until the Lord Jesus Christ. And there are 2000 years from
Jesus Christ until right now. And man, after this there
is only 1,000 years left, after the millennial
reign is done. But none of that happens until
the return of the Lord Jesus Christ. And that's great
news because the way that this timeline works
is we're right there. We are right there at the
return of the Lord Jesus Christ. And I'm so excited about that. So you need to know
that Adam is right here. And then Adam dies
somewhere right in there. And this is where Abraham was. And he's offering up Isaac. And this is where King David
was, exactly 1,000 years before the Lord Jesus. Of course, Jesus is there
on the 4,000th year. And then you go
about 1,500 years and you have Latimer and Ridley. You have the Reformation. And then you go up
to almost 6,000 years and we're right there
at it right now. And then this
represents the return of the Lord Jesus Christ. It represents the tribulation. And then it represents
Jesus coming back in all of His glory, ruling
and reigning for 1,000 years. So have you caught it yet? One day, two days, three days,
four days, five days, six days, seven days. Seven days or seven
1,000 year periods. Isn't it amazing how Jesus
Christ, the light of the world, shows up on the fourth day? And it was on the
fourth day of creation that the sun and the moon
and the stars were created. Man, I love that. But here's what you
and I need to know. We can only see this
one part right now. It's just one part of the train. It's the place in the timeline
where you and I are at. But Jesus Christ can see
the beginning and the end right now because He is
the beginning and the end. He can see, of course, the
moment that we're in right now. But also, at the
same time, He can see Abraham offering up Isaac
and Him saying, hey, stop. He can also see David
picking up five smooth stones as he goes to defeat Goliath. He can also see Jesus teaching
Peter how to walk on water. He can also see Polycarp
giving up his life. He can actually
see us right now. He's actually watching you watch
this episode right this second. But catch this. He's doing it and He can see it
all at exactly the same time. He's not subject to time. He's viewing it all at the
same time, just like the train. If this was the caboose
and if that was the engine, He is above the whole train and
He can see it all at one time. Now, if this is
true-- and it is-- let's you and I take a look at
how our own personal timelines might work. Let's just draw a
simple timeline. Let's say that this
is your beginning. And this is your end. In other words, this
is your birthday. This is your death day. OK, let's say you're
closer to your birthday than you are to your death day. So you know what, I'll just put
you somewhere right in here. Let's just put you
and I right there. But let's also say
that this was when you were learning how to walk. Let's say that this was
your first day of school. Right? Let's say, perhaps, maybe
this is the day that you got married right in there. Let's say that this is the
birth of your grandkids right in here. And this the birth of
your great grandkids. Wow, what a full
life you get to live. But you need to know this. Just exactly like how God
Almighty can see all of this, God can see the day
that you're born and the day that
you're dying right now. This is your life. And the Lord Jesus Christ is
over every single bit of it. Lets just say you didn't get
saved until, say, right here. What's real is, because we are
the stewards of this timeline, we can invite Him into any
single place on this map. So now let's get really crazy. Let's say that Jesus Christ
entered into your life right here. This is the place where Jesus
showed up, which is great. But let's say when
you were a child, you had something traumatic,
something terrible, something that needs to be answered,
some kind of terrible evil that needs to be answered
with the goodness of God. As a steward of this
timeline, and as someone who is in relationship
with the Lord Jesus Christ, we can invite him
into this place where this traumatic
event happened. We can invite Jesus
into this place and He can step into that place,
even though it's in our past. It's no big deal for Him,
who is in eternity, to step into that place right now. And it will change
our right now. Redemption changes
absolutely everything. And whenever we
invite Jesus Christ into any event at
all, what's real is it changes the
entire timeline. So let me just move this
board right out of the way. And before your
brain start smoking, let's just rehash some
of these basic steps into this mind
blowing revelation. Number one, time is God's
way of keeping everything from happening all at once. Number two, time
is created by God for the purposes of redemption. Number three, God is
not subject to time, nor is He confined to it
in any way whatsoever. He is eternal and He rules
both time and eternity. And He can step into
time or He can pull out of time in any place
that He pleases. Number four, God is
with us right now within this time frame. And He's also with us
in our past time frame. He's also with us in
our future time frames. And this next part
is so important. Right now, all at the same time. So here's the revelation
that all this leads to. Look, I'm not saying that you
can go back into your past because you can't. I'm not saying that you
can go back through time. But I am saying
that you can invite Jesus Christ into your past. And in so doing,
it will instantly change your right now. You see, when Jesus enters, He
always enters as the Redeemer. And because of this, I
know that you and I do not have to be caged by our past. Now we can't go
back through time unless of course the
one who orders time takes us back there,
but we as born again believers who are
in relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ-- we are in relationship
with the one who can. Someone who actually time
travels at His own discretion and even at His own leisure. Jesus Christ can just as
easily step into our past as He can step
into our right now. And He can also step
into our future. Why? Because He doesn't
live confined to time. There's so much hope
in this revelation. And I love it so much. Paul wrote about this. And in Ephesians chapter 5
verse 15 and 16, Paul tells us, "See then that you
walk circumspectively-- not as fools, but as wise-- redeeming the time because
the days are evil." As we walk or as we move
forward and we progress within our own
timelines, we need to learn how to bring faith,
not to be foolish as those who say there is no God or
there was no God with me during that time frame. He talks about
bringing redemption into our evil or our
very dangerous days. I can tell you that
as I get older, I can recognize that there are
many evil places in my past that I need to see redemption
and I need to be set free from. I believe that we can mark
epic dangerous and evil events or days even in our past. And as stewards
of our timelines, we can invite the manifest
presence of the Lord Jesus Christ, our redeemer, into
those very specific time frames that have cost us years
of undue burden and damage. The same as we can invite him
into our time frame right now. If you believe that you can
invite Jesus to step out of eternity into your
present time frame now, it's not that big
of a jump to believe that you can invite Jesus Christ
into your past time frames right now. So the moment that
redemption is applied to the event within
your past time frame, it will manifest as new
found freedom in your current and also within your
future time frame. And it becomes a
collateral blessing throughout your entire timeline. NARRATOR: Troy Brewer is known
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dreamsandmysteries.com today. So let's wrap this up. And let's go ahead
and activate it. Now if you lived
to be 77 years old and your timeline was
represented by, say, 77 chairs, you need to know
that you can invite King Jesus to sit with you
in any one of those chairs-- past, present, or future-- right now. So a good idea might be
to mark a place where something evil has happened. And we need to answer that
evil with God's goodness that only comes from His
manifest presence. So I'm going to say a prayer. And this prayer is
to invite Him in. And I'm going to pray
this for all of us. Let's do this. King Jesus, sir, we
come to you, Lord, and we invite you,
Lord God Almighty, sir, to sit with us in that
chair that nobody else wants to sit in. Father God, sir, we invite
you into this evil place, God, that we have marked, Lord God. And we pray, God, for
your manifest presence within that place. King Jesus, sir, we know,
God, that you are not subject to time. So we ask you, God, to
step out of eternity into that place within our past. And I pray, sir, that where
there used to be darkness, now let there be light. I pray, God, that where
there used to be shame, now, God, let there be honor. And King Jesus,
sir, we know, God, that the blood of the lamb and
the whole concept of redemption changes absolutely everything. We glorify you,
Lord God Almighty, sir, in that place
from this day forward. In Jesus' name. Yeah, do you see that? Do you see that
right now, you can invite Jesus to be
with you in some place that you mark in the past? And you know what it will do? Once you invite Jesus
into that place, it changes your right now. What freedom! What hope! You know what? This kind of power
doesn't come from earth. It only comes from heaven. And I pray that
Jesus Christ will invade every single bit of your
earth past, present and future. Yes, see, I'm a hope fanatic. And I'm a freedom zealot. And the Lord Jesus
Christ has taught me that Jesus is also a hope
fanatic and a freedom zealot. Hey, listen, I want to thank you
so much for joining me today. It's been fun as we try to
unwrap the mystery of redeeming time together. I'm Troy Brewer. Join us again as
we continue to look at the mysteries of the
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