Outside of time

So I was reading "Simply Christian" by N.T. Wright.  Some believe he is a heretic, some believe he is the next C.S. Lewis, some believe C.S. Lewis was a heretic.  Anyway...

He shares the thought that heaven and earth are overlapping and interlocking.  He describes the Jewish temple of old as being a place where heaven meets earth.  Later then we as the temple are the same.  So we bring heaven to earth and proclaim hope of restoration to all.  Though heaven is presently invisible outside of us.

This made me wrestle with the time space continuum and how we view the world.  What if heaven and earth do overlap and interlock as Wright supposes.  And what if before the fall particularly in the Garden of Eden heaven and earth not only overlapped but they were visibly one.  One and the same dimension if you will and God walked among man.  Let's say for sake of argument that time did not pass during this era.  (I still believe a literal 7 days of creation fits the text best, but God could be relaying it to Moses in way we could best fathom.  None of this is really the point.)  After the fall heaven while still overlapping and interlocking disappears and becomes, as far as we can tell, another dimension.  God is separated from man and His sin relationally, yet still with us, omnipresently.

Could this disappearance of heaven/God be caused by our progress in the strand of time and God's unchangingness outside of time?

Now enter the stories of God coming to earth, via ark of the covenant, pillar of fire/cloud, theophanies, temple etc.  When He enters our strand of time He appears to us.  He joins our reality.

Jesus comes later in full humanity thus trapping Himself in our time lock until He is released by death.  The same release from time we will all receive upon our deaths.

Based on our faith in Jesus resurrection, when He rejoined our timeline, we are either with Christ at death or we are not.  Our next "real" experience as far as our known reality would be upon our resurrection, either into the presence of God in heaven or at the Great White Throne awaiting damnation. 

Do we experience anything outside of time after death?  That's still up for argument.  If God's dimension is Spirit based then yes, but if it is not, if it indeed all that we hope for in a deeper richer reality than we know, then maybe not...not at least until you receive a new body to experience the richness fully.

Now back to Jesus resurrected body for a moment.  Is it possible that His new abilities to go through walls and locked doors stemmed from His ability to bounce back and forth between dimensions, because His new body is a native of both and actually design for the reuniting of planes to come?  Are we seeing Jesus blip in and out of time?

Now lets look forward to the restoration of earth.  Jesus is returning in His new body to rule this world/reality for 1,000 years.  At the end of this time (see 1 Cor 15) Jesus will hand over His authority to God who will become all in all.  That is when time stops.  Wouldn't heaven/God reappear to us, like they had first departed?  Revelation speaks of this earth's destruction and heavens destruction and the merging of a new heaven & earth hybrid!  And I supposed both planes have to be transformed in order to visibly and wholly overlap and interlock forever and ever.

Just a thought.  It doesn't really matter, but it's fun to think about. 

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