It’s About Time!

God does things in terms of time, or eons or ages, and has a purpose or purposes for each age. It’s important to know what age we are living in so we can better understand what God is doing in, to and through us, and not be fighting against Him. The basic building block of time is an age, or eon. In scripture the term is rendered or translated “ever.” So where we find the term “everlasting,” we could also read it “age”-lasting. An age has a beginning, middle and an end, and generally reflects God’s purposes for that portion of time.

The Ages of Time

One way of categorizing the ages is:

* The Age of God All-In-All (God existed fully self-contained)

* The Age of Chaos (Process of Creation — even Chaos is from God)

* The Age of Innocence (The creation of Adam, the first son of God, signified the manifest presence of God outside the Trinity)

* The Age of Knowledge (the knowledge of law defined sin)

* The Age of Transition (from death to life)

* The Age of Grace (freedom and wholeness for mankind)

* The Age of Evil Reigning (knowledge of sin and death come to an end)

* The Age of The Judgment Seat of Christ (reign of the Son of Man through the Son IN man)

* The Age of The White Throne Judgment (reign of the Son of God through a Corporate Body)

* Age of New Heaven and Earth (reign of God in His Completeness)

* Age of God All-In-All (all things again being summed up in Him)

Whether this breakdown of time fits into your doctrine at this point is not relevant. Our goal is to point out that what God does is dependent on what His purposes are during a particular time period.

We are presently living in the Age of Grace, based on world events, time-line indicators and, most importantly, the aspects of relationship with God that are available to us today.