‘For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible’. (Col 1:16).
So that is (1) everything we see with our natural eyes, and (2) everything we can’t see of this visible realm (because the spirit realm is all around us, there are angles around you right now, it is like we are living in a parallel universe). The invisible realms that we can’t see, all of it was created by Jesus.
That scripture continues, ‘He is before all things…’ Now, ‘before’ can be interpreted in two different ways, referring to space or to time. It can mean ‘in front of’ as well as ‘earlier than’. The reality is, Jesus is ‘before all things’: before everything and all of time, past, present and future, (the time and space realm). He is connected to the future things: and because of that He is our connection to the future things. The Holy Spirit is prophetic; He will show us who we are in the future so that we can prepare and take on that identity.
In Him, we are also connected to the “before” spiritual realm. The spiritual realm operates faster than the speed of light as we know it here. Because it does operate faster than the speed of light, it is beyond our time and operates outside of our timeframe. So, everything is always ‘before’ for Jesus.
‘…And in Him all things hold together’(v17). The spiritual realm provides all the energy for this natural realm to exist: we only exist because Jesus holds all things together. If he didn’t, we would just not exist. Another verse says he holds it all together by the word of his power (Heb 1:3).
Scientists have proven that, in the realm that they can’t see, there’s enough energy in one sugar cube volume of vacuum space to power the whole universe billions of times over. They call it ‘Zero Point Energy’. Google it and you will find all sorts of information, but it actually demonstrates how our world is being powered from the spiritual realm. That is the omnipotence of God. God is an all-powerful God, He is the power that is keeping this universe in place, and we can be connected to that power source.
The spiritual realm is the real realm. The natural realm will always give precedence to the spiritual realm because God is Spirit, we are also spirit. Jesus has a spiritual body, and we will get a new spiritual body one day in the future.
We are spiritual beings, and we can be connected to that spiritual realm here and now.
In reality we are spiritual beings having a human experience. As far as God is concerned, we have already lived our lives here on earth, He sees the beginning and the end. The earth provides the right kind of conditions for making manifest male and female sons of God, we are in school. What are you learning?
By Mike Parsons
www.freedomarc.org