From Everlasting to Everlasting

The Holy Bible is one of the means God uses to help us get to know Him. Consequently, we need to try to read the Bible every day. Before we read, we should ask God to give us the ability to understand, and the faith to accept, His truth.

In the Old and New Testament, the Holy Bible tells us that God is eternal. Put a different way, the Bible says that He is from “everlasting to everlasting.” If you look for it, the Word says that the Three Persons of the Holy Trinity are eternal, which is evidence that each one is equal and fully God.

After He arose from the dead, Jesus appeared to two of His followers on the road to Emmaus, and He spoke with them about His crucifixion and resurrection. He showed them from the scriptures how all these things needed to happen, and He lovingly reproved them saying, “You foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!” (Luke 24:25 NASB)

Sometimes I think that God tells us something over and over because He thinks it is necessary in order to get through to us. Forgive me, therefore, if what follows seems redundant. I firmly believe that God said it repeatedly for a reason:

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God. (Genesis 21:33 NASB) 

The eternal God is a hiding place,

And underneath are the everlasting arms …” (Deuteronomy 33:27 NASB) *

Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel,

From everlasting to everlasting! (1Chronicles 16:36 NASB) *

Before the mountains were born

Or You gave birth to the earth and the world,

Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God. (Psalm 90:2 NASB) *

But You, LORD, are on high forever. (Psalm 92:8 NASB)

Your throne is established from of old;

You are from eternity. (Psalm 93:2 NASB) *

But You, LORD, remain forever,

And Your name remains to all generations. (Psalm 102:2 NASB) *

Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel,

From everlasting to everlasting.

And all the people shall say, “Amen.”

Praise the LORD! (Psalm106:48 NASB) *

For a Child will be born to us, a Son will be given to us;

And the government will rest on His shoulders;

And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,

Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9:6 NASB) *

Do you not know? Have you not heard?

The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth

Does not become weary or tired.

His understanding is unsearchable. (Isaiah 40:28 NASB) *

But the LORD is the true God;

He is the living God and the everlasting King. (Jeremiah 10:10 NASB) *

How great are His signs

And how mighty are His miracles!

His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,

And His dominion is from generation to generation. (Daniel 4:3 NASB) *

But at the end of that period, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him who lives forever;

For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, And His kingdom endures

from generation to generation (Daniel 4:34 NASB) *

Regarding the Second Coming of Christ and His Kingdom:

I kept looking in the night visions,

And behold, with the clouds of heaven

One like a son of man was coming,

And He came up to the Ancient of Days

And was presented before Him.

And to Him was given dominion,

Honor, and a kingdom,

So that all the peoples, nations, and populations of all languages

Might serve Him.

His dominion is an everlasting dominion

Which will not pass away;

And His kingdom is one

Which will not be destroyed. (Daniel 7:13-14 NASB) *

Then the sovereignty, the dominion, and the greatness of all the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Highest One; His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all the empires will serve and obey Him. (Daniel 7:27 NASB) *

Are You not from time everlasting,

LORD, my God, my Holy One? (Habakkuk 1:12 NASB) *

Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret for long ages past, but now has been disclosed, and through the Scriptures of the prophets, in accordance with the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the nations, leading to obedience of faith; to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be the glory forever. Amen 

(Romans 16:25-27 NASB) *

Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer person is decaying, yet our inner person is being renewed day by day. For our momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. (2Corinthians 4:16-18 NASB) *

For we know that if our earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens. (2Corinthians 5:1 NASB) *

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. (1Timothy 1:17 NASB) *

For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? (Hebrews 9:13-14 NASB) *

… the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. To Him be dominion forever and ever. Amen. (1Peter 5:10-11 NASB) *

Then, John the Apostle nails it down:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of mankind. And the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not grasp it. (John1:1- NASB)

Most commentators agree that The Word (Gr. logos) that John refers to here is the Second Person of the Trinity, Jesus Christ, and that the beginning referred to is the creation (Genesis 1:1). The interpretation that makes the most sense to me (as a layman – not a theologian) is that because He was with God at the creation, and because all things were created through Him, shows that The Word had to be there before creation in order for creation to take place. Some of the commentators point out that when it says He was “with God” (Gr. pros), it means that The Word was “face to face” with God. It implies a coequal, intimate, loving, and cooperative relationship.

The idea being conveyed in verse one is that there was intense love and perfect cooperation between God the Father and God the Son, who were together from eternity before time began. Verse two firmly establishes that the Word was fully God. Verse four confirms that in Christ is life itself. He lives, and He will live forever.

Our God is absolutely timeless. He was from eternity past, He is now, and He will always be. Amen.


* (emphasis added)

Note: All scripture quoted is from: https://biblehub.com/