The Attributes Of God 'E' for Eternality

The Meaning of Time and Human Attempts to Measure It

Well, how do you measure time? I. Before I preach I just set my watch back to six o 'clock actually. There's lots of different ways to measure time. Actually the study of the devices that measure time is called Horology h o r o l o g y studying accurate timekeeping devices in the old days.

They had water clocks called clepsydas first found in Egypt. Matter of fact a water clock was found in the tomb of Pharaoh Amenhotep the first Plato is said to have invented the first water-based alarm clock.

Depending on how the flow of water. In a vessel containing the lead balls and how to get them to float in this column. Very interesting our glasses used to measure the flow of sand and then the flow of time were used in navigation.

Magellan used 18 glasses on his ships for navigation. Incense sticks sometimes were used to measure time. Candles were sometime used to measure time and atomic clocks these days measure time the best.

Nanoseconds are one. One billionth of a second. Microseconds are ten to the minus sixth seconds. Milliseconds are one one thousandth of a second. Minutes 60 seconds hours 60 minutes. We know days weeks.

How many days in a fortnight? Two weeks 14 days months quarters years leap years common years tropical years. Gregorian years. Olympiads. How many years would that be? Four years. Lustrum's. How many know what a lustrum is?

Five years. Decades or ten scores. 20 years generations are approximately 25 years centuries a hundred and millenniums 1 ,000 years and. Not one of them is accurately Involved in the description of God and how long he's been around.

Tonight we're going to talk about the eternal nature of God. What calendar day is today? April 15th, so I on tax day April 15th, I know it's been moved two days for us one days one day for the normal people.

But April 15th reminds me of tax day. So I get the privilege tonight of taxing your mind with the greatness of God. If you can figure out tonight the eternal nature of God, then you should ask to be Part of the Trinity because it is Unbelievable.

You can't get your arms around it. It is too high. It is too broad. It is too deep to think about the eternal nature of God. Sunday nights. We do Many things but we've been going through the alphabet for attributes of God.

A all-knowing be beautiful see creator D the decree of God and tonight e the eternal nature of God. The eternality of God. What I'd like to do is just teach you the doctrine and then we'll go to Psalm 90 since we're in the Psalms.

The last couple days Psalm 93. Psalm 97 tonight. We sang Psalm 99 then we might as well look at Psalm 90 tonight. Let me just give you a few verses before I give you a definition. I won't tell you where they're from just listen to these words that describe the eternal nature of God.

Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting. Your throne is established from of old you are from everlasting. Elihu says of God the number of his years. The number of God's years is unsearchable.

Before Abraham was I am. I am the Alpha and the Omega the first and the last the beginning and the end. But Thou O Lord dust abide forever and thy name to all generations. For thus says the high and exalted one who lives forever.

Whose name is holy? And our kids have been taught a little song and it goes like this. What a mighty God we serve. What an awesome God we serve. A God who is eternal. Tonight I give you Another big God Psalm from another big God attribute.

How do you define? Eternality would anybody like to take a stab at it? Raise your hand and I'll call on you and tell me how would you describe the eternal nature of God? Yes. Okay, great. I can ascribe to that.

Anyone else we won't laugh at you the eternal nature of God. Julie. Okay, excellent. Anyone else. Here's how Louie Burkhoff in a systematically systematic theology defined it his eternity may be defined as that perfection of God an attribute whereby he is elevated above all temporal limits and all succession of movements and Possesses.

This is a good one. This is one of those you have to pause and rewind. This is a say la moment. Say la stop and just let it sink in. He is elevated above all temporal limits and all succession of movements and Possesses the whole of his existence in one indivisible present a Hodge said he never had any beginning and Never will have any end.

That as to the mode of his existence his thoughts emotions purposes and acts are without succession. One and inseparable the same forever. No beginning no end in Time out of time so much so that the French Bible has translated the word Yahweh or Jehovah by this word and I can't speak French, but you'll get the idea lay eternal the eternal God.

Now if I were to take a Pen and draw a little dot here and then an arrow going this way. All the way Extending I can kind of get that idea of eternal life. I have eternal life that God makes me born again.

I just live forever that way but to think of somehow this line with arrows going both ways that God has had no beginning and No end. It is absolutely amazing before time began God was eternal. God said to Moses I am who I am and he said thus you shall say to the sons of Israel I am has sent me to you.

Where did God come from? Wrong question, when did God start. Wrong question who made God? Wrong question. When there was nothing else God was. Turn to Genesis 21 for a minute before we get to Psalm 90.

Genesis 21 33. And I want to show you that God is even called by name the everlasting God. The divine name one of his names he could be the God who provides he could be a great creator God sustainer God a God who keeps his promises, but here specifically in the context of The everlasting nature of the covenant-keeping God, by the way, if you want a covenant kept that's the kind of nature you'd want Genesis 21 33 and Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba and There he called on the name of Yahweh the everlasting God El Olam the everlasting God.

God has no end. He is and he was and he is to come. You know this verse from the pastoral epistles 1st Timothy 6 15 and 16. God alone is the only sovereign King of Kings Lord of Lords who alone possesses what?

Immortality which means deathlessness. He is free from dying and dwells in unapproachable life. God has no past. God has no future as it were true or false. Congregation when the Bible speaks of God God has always spoken of in the present.

True because he always is he's always spoken of in present tense terms because he is. Dr. Lawson was telling me about his father and his mother you heard him this morning to talk about it. He was talking about his father in the present tense.

Why and he's speaking about his mother in the past tense. Why? Because his mother is alive in his father. His father is alive in his mother's with the Lord. Always God has existed before Abraham was. Well, how about time true or false.

Let me ask you another question. Time is part of eternity. In eternity past there was time. We know that's false before time after time God was eternal. It's just amazing for me to think about it. How do you preach this?

How do you talk about it? But does God see events in time? Does God act in time? God's above time. He's over time. He's he created time. Before God there was no time in eternity past. There was no time and God creates time, but is he involved in time at all?

Does he somehow get involved in the lives of people in time? I think these verses would clear that up Galatians 4 when the time had fully come God sent forth his son born of a woman born under law to redeem those who were under the law.

God is acting in time. How about this in Acts 17 the times of ignorance God has overlooked? But now he commands all men everywhere to repent because listen. He has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has Appointed.

God works in time. He's above time, but he works in time. He said you say to me, but I don't quite understand that. Well, welcome to the theology of time. I Like attributes of God that blow my mind that all of a sudden just start, you know, the machinery starts to smoke.

I'm not a very good mechanic. But I'm getting better as the years go on and there are two things that have motivated me to be a better mechanic. I'll one here's my one thing that has motivated me to be a better mechanic and that is I'm frugal and if you pay someone to do it, they charge you a lot of money but I like to fix things myself because it's kind of a fun thing to do if you actually fix it and It costs a lot less money, but sometimes I'm in there fixing the boat or doing things.

I'm all happy. It seems to be put back together. I look at my little magnetic bowl tray there. That's supposed to keep all the extra things. There's not any screws left and I turn over the boat and it just starts smoking.

This is so difficult that our minds just kind of start smoking. I hate to refer to some stupid TV show. But I think there's some things where the smoke comes out of the people's ears because their brain is taxed.

And the best theologians even Louis Burkhoff said quote the relation of eternity to time constitutes one of the most difficult problems in philosophy and Theology perhaps incapable of solution in our present condition.

I mean, how do we understand that God fills time is in every part of time? But his eternity still is not really this being in time. How do we get that we can't get that we turn to Psalm 102 if you would please.

I think one of the ways we Could look at eternality is when we contrast it with things that aren't eternal. How do you define eternality? Well, if we put God's eternal nature up against things that are not eternal then we can see how wonderful this doctrine is.

Psalm 102 Compares him the psalmist compares himself with God and then it compares the earth with God and God's eternal nature. Psalm 102 verse 11. My days are like a lengthened shadow. I wither away like grass but thou Yahweh name of God dust abide how long forever and thy name to all generations.

Compared to the feeble and frail and quick lives God's eternal nature is more easily seen and even with the earth verse 25 of the same Psalm of Old thou disformed the earth and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

Even they will perish but thou dust endure and all of them will wear out like a garment. Like clothing that will change them and they will be changed. And you see the contrast in the comparison, but thou art the same and thy years will not come to an end.

Eternity, Time, and Life in Heaven

Now, let me just push it a little bit farther. Will there be time in heaven? I never asked that question until this week time in heaven. Well, most scholars think there will be some sort of time in heaven.

Even though we sing the hymn when the trumpet of the Lord shall sound and time shall be no.

More and.

Wayne Grudem thinks that there will be some sort of time in heaven because how do you sing a new song of praise in heaven and. Then another new song and another new song if there's no time. How do you cast your crowns at the feet of Christ Jesus if you've always had the crowns and always will have them.

But instead you don't have them then you have them then you cast them then you don't have them. And the night shall be no more. They shall need no light or lamp or Sun for the Lord God will be their light and they shall reign forever and ever.

Revelation chapter 22 verse 5. Grudem said we will experience eternal life not in an exact duplication of God's attribute of eternity. But rather in a duration of time that will never end. I think he's right.

And all of a sudden once I started thinking about the eternal nature of God. It means something to me. Lawson was right. What you believe about your theology determines your methodology and doxology. For instance worry you worry.

Are you a worry wart? You've seen you know that song. I'm a worry warthog. Do you kids know that song? That is a great song. Worry warthog, I'm not gonna sing it. We'll talk more about worry in Psalm 90.

How about this if you understand the eternal nature of God, can you solve this? Theological problem. Here's the theological problem. Could Christ sin on earth? Theologians call this the peccability he could have sinned or The impeccability he could not have sinned.

And the rationale goes like this. If he's really going to be our representative and if he really can sympathize with us and empathize with us. And he's really fully human then he should be able to sin yet.

He wasn't. The other side of the coin is and this is what we would believe at this church. Jesus could not have sinned because of his nature not only because of his power his holiness. But also he's the eternal God.

I could ask it to you. I could ask it this way. Could Jesus have sinned in eternity past? Answer. So how could he sin in eternity future? And how could he sin in time? He couldn't do it. He's immutable.

I Like it that God's eternal because no matter what people group what nation what time of year what year it is in the in the clock 2007 1007 here is this trans chronological God and he could be a god and father to his children here and he could be a god.

And father to the Akka Indians who speared.

Jim Elliot I mean.

Let's just think about fashion for a minute and put fashion over against the eternal nature of a God who can be a father to All kinds of children. I mean now the first idea I got about somehow dressing According to what the culture would say is when I walked into junior high one day and everybody looked at my my pants my jeans.

And my my shoes and they they all laughed because I had flutters on. It was very very disturbing for a young 12 year old kid. Clothing style and hairstyles. God never changes. Bell-bottom jeans and tie-dyes.

I Always loved pastor Davey. He comes up and he looks at some of my ties and he'll say that's coming back into style again. But you know what just between us he's gotten to be wearing wilder ties since I've met him Steve Cooley to Just Take a Lewis and Clark Genghis Khan, I know both of them have very bland ties on tonight, by the way.

Take Genghis Genghis Khan and just kind of transport him to today. How outdated how outmoded how weird? He would be when he wouldn't understand and here we get as a pastor and as a church to study the everlasting eternal Relevant word.

God's Word is always in because God is always in he's eternal. I Also like this doctrine because it's good to know this doctrine when your kids ask you who made God. Because the answer is he's always existed.

I Like it to give thanks to God for his eternal nature because his promises are forever. If his promises are tied to his nature, which they are. Then his eternal nature would yield eternal promises. Verse.

Peter 1 says have been born again not of corruptible seed but incorruptible through the Word of God which lives and abides forever. His word is all Eternal his name is eternal. He always was he always is and he always will be he never began.

He will never cease to be. And how do you explain it? I think the best ways if we turn to Psalm 90 and let's take a look with a poetic song How God's eternal nature is described it makes it so easy. It makes it so easy to go to Psalm 90 and then try to describe God's eternal nature.

Versus me trying to give you a bunch of quotes from some theologians Psalm 90. Steve was right. This is the oldest Psalm in the Bible who wrote this Psalm. Well, if our liner notes are right, it says a prayer of Moses the man of God and this psalm will help us understand God's eternal nature and how that Practically fleshes itself out in someone's life.

This is a psalm that if you go to a funeral, you'll probably hear this read. This is a psalm that has inspired men like Isaac Watts. Oh God our help in ages past. Our hope in years to come and here we have Moses an old man.

He's seen God and he understands God and he's going to say I'm going to show you the eternal nature of God. By setting that nature up and against and over the transitory vapor like length of a man.

It's age now.

Psalm 90 and the Judgment on the Wilderness Generation

Before we go here. I have to tell you you cannot get Psalm 90 unless you get numbers 13 and 14. What happened in numbers 13 and 14? 40 years of wilderness wandering. Because of the sin of Kadesh Barnea.

Why don't we just turn there for a second keep your finger on Psalm 90 if you go to numbers chapter 14 We'll just skip chapter 13. It opens everything up. I am quite confident when I say this that if you don't understand this connection the historical setting the occasion the situation.

You don't understand Psalm 90 as well as you could. The spies in chapter 13 go out to view the land. How many spies the spies come back and what do they say? Numbers. Too big too many can't do it. Verse 33 of numbers 13 there.

We also saw the Nephilim you know the Nephilim the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim and We became like grasshoppers little baby grasshoppers in our sight. And so we were in their sight. We looked at each other.

We look like grasshoppers. We looked at them. We look like grasshoppers the Nephilim the sons of Anak. These people are big it's like walking into a room and seeing these folks and we've got to go get them and They rebelled.

Chapter 14 says in verse 2 They grumbled and just like this morning in Nehemiah when all the people spoke as one man bring the book here in verse 1 of chapter 14 all the Congregation lifted up their voices and cried and the people wept that night.

Verse 2 would we have died in the land of Egypt or would we have died in this wilderness? Why is the Lord bringing us into this land to fall by the sword. And when you're sick of the Lord and you can't Reach out to grab him you grab the next best thing God's appointed man.

So what do they do. Verse 4 let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt. What did Moses and Aaron do? Well, they're trying to kick us out and they are gonna get down on their faces and pray. And now if we read beginning in verse 20 We'll see God's answer to Moses's prayer.

So the Lord in verse 20 of numbers 14 said I have pardoned them according to your word. But indeed as I live all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord. Surely all the men who have seen my glory and my signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not listened to my voice and Here comes the death sentence.

Shall by no means see the land which I swore to their fathers. Nor shall any of those who spurned me see it. But my servant Caleb because he has had a different spirit and has followed me fully I will bring into the land which he entered and his descendants shall take possession of it.

Verse 26 the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron saying how long shall I bear with this evil? Congregation who are grumbling against me. Verse 28 as I live says the Lord just as you have spoken in my hearing.

So I will surely do to you. And here's what we've got to get because it helps us with Psalm 90 your corpses will fall in this wilderness even all your numbered men according to your complete number from 20 years old and Upward who have grumbled against me?

12 spies go out to spy the land and there's big trouble massive rebellion. God says here's my judgment on you the Exodus generation and then for 40 years. You have those who are 20 years old and over die.

Here's some calculation that I found in fruit and bomb very very telling. Based upon the population of 1 million two hundred thousand adults who would be over 20. Let's say 2 million went in. Let's get rid of the kids as it were for our calculation.

In a 38 year period here's what would have to happen. 1 million two hundred thousand people die in 38 years. That is thirty one thousand five hundred and eighty people die per year. Eighty-seven people die every single day.

Eighty-seven funerals every day for 38 years. There's an old Southern Baptist preacher in the south and he said he had to cover like four or five cities in the 50s in the 60s and he was just the guy who married and buried people and he said I just go all around and I Do funerals for people?

87 a day. I'm exhausted when I do just one. All because of the sin at Kadesh Barnea and now Moses is a little older and Moses looks back on this time. He writes it as he's seen the whole generation. Just get killed by God in the wilderness including Aaron including Miriam and he writes now Psalm 90.

That amazing back to Psalm 90, please out of the ashes of numbers 13 and 14. Psalm 90 inspired by the.

Spirit of God verse 1 and 2.

Lord you have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were born or you gave birth to the earth and the world even from everlasting to Everlasting you are God. See that word Lord there in verse 1.

It's Adonai. You are the ruler. You are the governor. You are the master. You are the sovereign. You are the the boss. You are the orchestrator you are the ruler and You the ruler. God have been our dwelling place in all generations.

We have no dwelling place, but you God are the only dwelling place we have and Dwelling place could mean a lot of things. It could mean a sense of protection. You think about your home and you would understand dwelling place when you go to your house.

What do you feel. No, you might feel like it's a place of rest it's an oasis that just gets you away from the world and you can kick your shoes off and and put your Robe on and your slippers and you just are just safe.

You're protected you think when you lock those doors. I knew when I was a kid I thought if I lock these doors, there's nobody that can come in my house. I mean, I'm safe. I'm ready. It means habitation in Latin it's translated refugium a refuge.

Luther translated a zoo fluked. Just sounded neat. How's it pronounced? Zoo fluked. I've been Good now, but you the Most High God have been our dwelling place. You have been our protection and To all generations you've been this shield about us.

From the burning bush to the Red Sea to Egypt to Pharaoh after us God. You are a rock. He says in Deuteronomy 32 and that's the idea here and not just to my generation He says but to Jacob's generation Isaac's generation before that Abraham's generation Noah's generation the patriarchs generation.

God you have been our dwelling place to all generations. And it's not God you've placed me in a dwelling place you are in fact my dwelling place. Not just occasionally not just once in a while, but the eternal God has been the dwelling place of his people.

I Love Deuteronomy 33. It says written by Moses as well. The eternal God is thy dwelling place and underneath are the Everlasting arms out in the middle of the wilderness. I don't know if you ever watched survivor or any kind of trivial shows like that.

I never would or anything but 30 days or 40 days out in some stupid island all contrived and here 40 years out in the middle of the wilderness God has to be the refuge and protector. It's Charles Spurgeon said interestingly.

Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests. But the Saints dwell in their God and have always done so in all ages. Now as we're looking at this You just can't say this is Moses God if you believe that God is eternal the same God who protected Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and Moses and the people he is our God and Moses is writing this and even Moses didn't make it into the promised land and then wonderfully poetically verse 2 before the mountains were born or you gave birth to the Birth to the earth and the world from everlasting to everlasting.

You are God before the mountains were even born these descriptive terms. Before the earth was created. This is the kind of God you were how great you are. Mountains permanence unmovable the greatness of God's fatherly care protection or Even thou has formed the earth and the world.

Pre Genesis 1 1 God you were before the mountains were made and even farther back God. You were God before Genesis 1 1. You are God. Thou art God the only true God. One commentator said this is the highest description of the eternity or eternal nature of God to which human language can reach.

God is our dwelling place all generations. Reminds me of Paul writing to the church at Colossae. Your life is hid with Christ in God. God is eternal. He's not just a refuge for those people but for us too and now against the eternal nature of God Moses says now let you let me show you the the vanity of man's life as it were Compared to God.

Let's look at man in verses 3 through 6. These are my favorite verses by the way to combat secular humanism, this should be the slogan of every college I think because here's man at his best compared to God.

Verse 3. You turn back into the dust and say return you turn man back in the dust return. Oh children of men for a thousand years in your side or like yesterday when it passes by or as a watch in the night.

You have swept them away like a flood. They fall asleep in the morning. They're like grass which sprouts anew in the morning. It flourishes and sprouts anew toward evening. It fades and withers away eternal nature of God.

Verses 1 and 2 and just the Breath of man gone. I'm not really a big t-shirt guy, but I would love to get this t-shirt and I've almost clicked add to cart online to get it. God is dead Nietzsche. Nietzsche is dead God.

I would love to have that shirt. I'm not asking you to buy me one extra-large all-cotton. What a great comparison. Verse 3 you you turn back into dust and say return. Oh children of men. Now these words we just have to pick it apart.

The Hebrew language is so amazing. The word for man. There you turn man back is Enosh frail weak Brittle and It says you turn him back into dust in the dot-com into into a piece of clay. It comes to the word to crush and if you crush clay.

Long enough and hard enough it pulverizes the clay and turns to dust. God says, you know I'm the one who does this and he has Moses say it God you turn man back into dust. From dust to dust. That is amazing.

Pulverized. Spurgeon said God resolves and man dissolves. Dissolved. The Septuagint the Greek version of the Old Testament Says that you turn man back into humiliation. It's a bad translation, but it's got the idea, right?

Pulverized like dust. God is deathless. Men and women are pulverized into dust and To dust you shall return and you see the passage return ye children of men. No escape clause. Bill Gates Warren Buffett Churchill Aristotle Einstein.

Aquinas presidents. Queens Kings sports stars. Andy Warhol was right 15 minutes of fame. And then it's the mortal mortar and the pestle. Whatever your rank is. You're all dying. Exercise vitamins. How many how many Master Seminary graduate Steve has have died in the last six months.

Just last week one who was younger than I am in a senior pastor in Carson, California. Car accident dead in two days. 49 year old Master Seminary graduate just a short time ago was a chaplain in California he went to the home of a fallen soldier who died in Iraq and said to his wife You have lost your husband.

He's died in Iraq the next day. He's jogging to work and the 49 year old chaplain for Master Seminary falls down dead. Everybody dies and Moses is showing the eternal nature of God and then fragile man.

It's so easy to die. Augustine said if we were glass bases, we might fear less danger. And if you notice very carefully in verses 3 4 5 6 this Brevity of man and women in terms of their lives is not just contrasted to the eternal nature of God.

But it is caused by God. It's caused by God. He's the one doing it. Man's life is fragile. Yes, and God is causing this. And look at verse 4 we see Moses again exalting the greatness of God and his eternal timelessness for a thousand years in your sight.

Or like yesterday when it passes by are as a watch in the night a Thousand years. Think how much has happened in the last thousand years. Just pick a culture and see what has happened in a thousand years and Moses says it's like Yesterday and then it's almost like you know what that's too.

That that illustration won't do and he goes farther. Or as they watch in the night the Greeks had Four watches in a night the Hebrews had three watches in a night. And so a watch in Hebrew idea would be four hours a thousand years is like four hours to God.

But it even gets further what happens when you're sleeping at night. When you're sleeping at night during one of these watches. Well, you'd probably be killed. But if you did sleep. You can't understand time when you're fast asleep.

You don't know what's happening to time. It just zooms by a Thousand years. What verse does this remind you of by the way? Second Peter chapter 3 verse 8 if you want to turn there, that's fine. Otherwise, I'll just turn there just the eternal nature of God.

Second Peter chapter 3 verse 8. By the way, by the way, if you're wondering if I have tabs on my Bible, I have tabs on my Bible. I thought you pastors weren't supposed to have and they're just supposed to have no tabs at all.

And then there's some pastors that I know of who are world-class pastors and they have tabs. And so that allows me to have tabs because that's just let's get there. You can have tabs, too second chapter 3.

But do not let this one fact escape your notice beloved that with the Lord one day is like a Thousand years and a thousand years like one day. That is absolutely Amazing that time binds us and limits us but with God it doesn't mean anything at all a thousand years one day.

And a thousand years it goes further in second Peter chapter 3 verse 8 and a thousand years is like one day so let's see the first part of that is one days like a thousand years he can know all that and The other is and a thousand years is like one day.

Well, let's go back to Psalm chapter 5 and 90 verses 5 and 6. I could say a lot about second Peter said it before and just wanted to show you that it's referenced there. Psalm chapter 90 verse 5. Moses uses a little illustration here to show how brief time is on earth.

Figure of grass. Verse 5 of Psalm 90 you have swept them away like a flood they fall asleep in the morning. They're like grass which sprouts anew again all said in contradistinction to the eternal nature of God who never Begins who never ends they're carried away like a flood.

This is kind of like a lava flow or some kind of tsunami where you've got just a little stream going down and all of a Sudden something happens the dam Behind our upstream breaks and then this deluge comes coming down and just wipes everything out.

We had a cabin when I was growing up on the Missouri River and It was 165 miles due north of Omaha on the Missouri River and there was a dam there. It was called Gavin's Point Dam. And I was always afraid When we went up to the dam when they closed everything off and we could hook our boat to the side of the dam and just fish and Here's this wall of water up there and it was said that if this dam would ever break.

That the water would be so much that would come out of Lewis and Clark Lake that the water would come streaming down the Missouri River and when the Missouri River turns like this and Omaha's here in Nebraska and Council bluffs is here in Iowa that the water would keep going straight and it would flood Council bluffs completely 165 miles away and Here this flood is from God.

Swept away like a flood they fall asleep literally a sleep they are. They're like grass one minute it's green and going the next minute the heat of the day it's gone vanity. In the morning that flourishes and sprouts anew toward evening its fades and withers away.

How great a change and how short of time one man said I? Like this little ditty. To illustrate the point it's called cut down. Stout and strong today tomorrow turn to clay. This day in his bloom the next in the tomb a very short life.

Moses is trying to say You say why why is life so short? Yes. God is eternal and We have short lives yes God is infinite and we're finite. And now we find out why our lives are so short and you just might be shocked.

Psalm 97 to 12 the answer is is because God's wrath must punish Human sin. You want to know why man's life is so short. It's because of sin here. We see the contrast between God and sin. For we have been consumed verse 7 by your anger and by your wrath we have been dismayed.

You've placed our iniquities before you our secret sins in the light of your presence. This is the explanation on why death comes and comes so quickly. One man said this mortality is not accidental. But sin has provoked the Lord to his anger and therefore thus we die.