Infinite

Infinite

'Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised; his greatness is unsearchable.' (Psalm 145:3,4)

 

God is infinitely great. But what is infinite? What is the meaning of God as an infinite Being? It means that God is all-encompassing, all-determining, and all-pervading. That all things are brought forth by Him from His eternal Being in the temporal reality we call the "universe." "In Him we live and move and have our being," says Paul  (Acts 17:28). He is the One who gives to all "life and breath and all things." (Acts 17:25). He, that is, Jesus Christ, the Almighty, Omnipresent, Omniscient, Eternal God, who became Man. "In Him all things were created, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers—all things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together." (Col.1:16,17)

Here, Paul describes all the laws that hold together, govern, and develop all things in our universe. There have been profound thinkers who discovered a fixed number of "sets" of laws: (1) the laws of numbers, (2) the laws of space, (3) the laws of motion, (4) the laws of energy or matter, (5) the laws of biological life, (6) the laws of sensation, (7) the laws of feeling, emotions, (8) the laws of reason, thought, (9) the laws of power and culture, (10) the laws of language, (11) the laws of the social, (12) the laws of the economic, (13) the laws of the aesthetic (beauty), (14) the laws of the legal, (15) the laws of the ethical, (16) the laws of faith. Essentially, these sets of laws are nothing more than aspects of the reality in which we live. And between all these different aspects, which are inherent to our universe, there are also countless connections and interactions.

 

The laws within all these aspects and all their interconnections are completely fixed. It is a pattern imposed by the Creator upon His creation, to which everything continually conforms. This pattern is followed so consistently and with such iron discipline by the Creator that it seems as if He were not there. It is as if everything He continually calls into being exists within itself. It seems as if the universe has existed eternally and will exist eternally. By creating a universe that appears infinite, both in size and time, and that, down to the behavior of its tiniest parts, consistently conforms to the laws He established, the Creator has made Himself almost invisible. Almost, because through reason and faith, humanity can know Who the Creator is. “For since the creation of the world, His invisible qualities, His eternal power and Godhead, have been clearly seen, being understood by what has been made, so that they are without excuse.” 

 

The reason God constructed our universe in such a way, in a seeming absence of Himself, while that creation simultaneously exemplifies His eternal power and Godhead, is that humanity would seek Him and find Him and live by faith in Him. “He appointed the appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, that they should seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.” God wants to be sought and found by humanity and to relate to humanity based on faith. “Seek, and you will find,” Jesus tells his listeners.

It seems, again, that the seeking originates with humanity. However, the seeking originates with God. He is like the Shepherd, who leaves the 99 sheep in the pasture to go and seek the one. The fact that you're reading this means God is searching for you. Of course, you are searching for God. But God has so ordered and guided the circumstances in your life that you began searching.

 

Back to God's infinite greatness. It extends from the very smallest to the very largest. Multiple dimensions are involved, in addition to all the laws mentioned above. Space has three dimensions: height x length x width. Time can also be considered a dimension. The smallest unit of space is the Planck, 1.616199 x 10^(-35) meters. There are 0.16 quadrillion trillion Planck distances in a meter. How incredibly small that is becomes clear when you compare it to a proton, a particle of an atom. If this atomic particle were to be blown up to the size of the universe, the Planck would be about the size of a human being. Elsewhere on this site, it has already been indicated that time is also composed of very small units of time fractions, and that in a single second, half a billion x quadrillion x trillion of these time fractions (Planck moments) pass: 5.39 * 10^(-44).

From the very smallest to the very largest: the universe. The size of the visible universe, measured in light-years, is estimated at 92 billion light-years. One light-year is 9,500 billion kilometers. That is 92 x 10^(9) x 9.5 x 10^(12) = 874 x 10^(21) kilometers, or 874 trillion kilometers.

 

If we combine all this data, we arrive at such absurd numbers that it is absolutely pointless to even attempt to understand them. You can calculate a number, but a number tells you absolutely nothing. You then arrive at the force and information necessary for maintaining and controlling all the laws for 2.7 x 10^(186) cubic Planck distances. That's 2.7 trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion of the tiniest space particles. The laws governing all these space particles must be kept in harmony with each other half a billion quadrillion trillion times per second. This is not to mention all the forces that hold matter together and that sustain space and all movements within it. This presupposes an unimaginable amount of strength, power, wisdom, and knowledge. Everything, whether stationary or moving, must be constantly and logically coordinated, fraction by fraction of time. God could—if He so desired—suddenly exchange today's situation with that of the 1920s, for example. But He doesn't do so because He is completely consistent and faithful to the laws He Himself established. "Holy, holy, holy," the four living creatures in and around His throne cry out.

 

But there comes a moment when the laws are suddenly broken. "I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep. But we will all be changed, in a fraction of a time..." Paul literally says here: "in an atom of time." In the tiniest moment of time, believers who have accepted Jesus will be changed and carried away in the rapture of the church. They, along with all who have fallen asleep in Christ and have been raised from the graves, will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so they will always be with the Lord.

In calculating the enormous amount of information, power, and force required for the governance of creation, we have only discussed the visible reality above. There is also an invisible reality of thousands of thousands and tens of thousands of tens of thousands of angels. All of this is said to have been created "through Him and for Him" ​​and to exist together "in Him." Him, He, that is, the Son, Jesus Christ, "whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds." This One, who is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His Being, and who upholds all things by the word of His power, having by Himself purified sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high…’. We find three important observations here: (1) past – ‘through whom He made the worlds’, (2) present – ​​‘who upholds all things by the word of His power’, and (3) future – ‘whom He has appointed heir of all things’.

 

And there is something else. He has (4) ‘brought about the purification of sins’. For how do we know that things do not exist in themselves but rest in the hand of the Almighty? We know this not only from the enormous complexity of all things but also from the aging process to which creation is subjected and for which humanity itself is responsible, having turned away from the Creator and become a follower of the great rebel from heaven, Lucifer. Therefore, God has ‘subjected the entire universe to futility’. The laws that God Himself established for the universe are making it a terminal state. Death reigns supreme, in every respect. Even stars die and turn into black holes. Entropy is increasing. More and more information is being lost.

The tensions evident in society today also point to an approaching end for the current system. Many of these tensions are related to the size of humanity. That is the major problem that the devil-controlled elite wants to solve once and for all. Fearing the finiteness of the planet's natural resources and knowing that a fanning out of humanity across the universe is utterly impossible (almost all NASA information is disinformation—obviously—they occasionally drop hints), a plan was put into motion at the end of 2019 that has been decades in the making. The world's population must be reduced to small, manageable proportions, and they, the world's elite, will determine who will be part of that population. And that's not ordinary people like you and me.

 

However, God Himself has accomplished the cleansing of sins by paying the price as a Man on earth for everyone who seeks and finds Him. If you seek and find Him, you will receive eternal life. This means being assured of a place in God's plans and in God's worlds for all eternity. He has much more planned for this universe beyond this world. The Bible speaks of "ages of ages," meaning a long series of eras in which He reveals Himself again and again. His plans for the current "age" are drawing to a close. The current era fits almost seamlessly into those plans.

The Book of Revelation shows how the endgame will unfold with humanity, led by God's adversary, attempting to build a global Utopia on its own, using its own knowledge and technology, thereby going against God's order of creation. However, it is a Utopia of totalitarian control by a small elite over the masses. That Utopia will last even shorter than Hitler's "millennium." Those who allow themselves to be led by Satan in an unimaginable selfishness and who are currently subjecting the world to totalitarian control will be dealt with once and for all. For a very short time, about 3.5 years, they will be given some leeway, but then it will be over, and God will come with the universal kingdom of His Son, Jesus Christ. The infinitely great, all-determining, all-controlling, all-pervading God—how dare they conspire against Him?