Does time seem as if it's speeding up?

[Beloved Servant]

As if — the eternal now overlaps the temporary?

[fire walker]

Well Beloved Servant,

It does seem as though time is moving faster at least to me it does seem that way, yet a day is still 24 hours in measured time, there appears to be time on the one side and timelesness on the other, when my mind is on timeless things an hour can seem like a flash of light fleeting faster than one second.

This experience of time appearing to go faster I've noticed more as the years of age increase in my life, I have pretty well lived my three score and ten years, yet I do not feel that old inwardly and am still blessed with enough strength to be physicaly active and much of the work I do is manual, by the reason of that strength I more than not probably am going to see the four score years, yet it is one day at a time, and labor and sorrow, at least physicaly are part of those last ten to 12 years on the approach to the eighty year marker.

Also, communications and news is very fast today around the world and so events are reported much faster than in past decades,
this can lead to a sense of time moving faster today, in many ways it appears to me that time weather seeming to slow down or speed up is relative to what we are experiencing at any given point in time in relation to where we are spiritualy weather at rest or in labor.

My response here may not even be what you were seeking in response to this topic, however I was moved to offer what appears to me regarding time in hopes that it might answer at least in part what you are looking for in reply.

Peace,
Fire Walker

[Beloved Servant]

Fire walker,
I do understand and appreciate the fact that as one gets older time seems to travel faster.
Perhaps, through experience, it's true.
Blessed is the Lord God Almighty.
But I was referring to something peculiar and different than the common realization of years gone by.

[rosered]

Does time seem as if it's speeding up?

As if — the eternal now overlaps the temporary?

   seems the young and old alike are in a suffering state  of being , more so than  usual , or maybe just ''awakened '' to it  more these days  David

  not suicidal  at all but death does not seem to such an enemy  these days because Jesus  has  taken the ''sting ''  out of it 
We long to be in the presence of the Lord

  when younger  the dark and fearful  place of the soul in torment
   the Pslams   was what the Lord give to comfort , letting  us know we are not alone in the  world and forsaken and helpless  and miserable
  it was a chance to cry out to God and ask

  seeing this more and more these days in the younger  ones as well as the old
  that place of travail for deliverance  it seems

  the chapter is special in so many ways ...  not suicidal but needing a way of escape from the vanity of  this  mortal life that  seems  so dead  and frutile    and asking for the Lords Spirit of Life to come and dwell within  and  mostly   just stay  with us very near and precious .....

Psa 88:15 I [am] afflicted and ready to die from [my] youth up: [while] I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. 

  NLT Psalm 88
For the choir director: A psalm of the descendants of Korah. A song to be sung to the tune "The Suffering of Affliction." A psalm[a] of Heman the Ezrahite.
1 O Lord, God of my salvation,
      I cry out to you by day.
      I come to you at night.
2 Now hear my prayer;
      listen to my cry.
3 For my life is full of troubles,
      and death draws near.
4 I am as good as dead,
      like a strong man with no strength left.
5 They have left me among the dead,
      and I lie like a corpse in a grave.
   I am forgotten,
      cut off from your care.
6 You have thrown me into the lowest pit,
      into the darkest depths.
7 Your anger weighs me down;
      with wave after wave you have engulfed me.
                         


8 You have driven my friends away
      by making me repulsive to them.
   I am in a trap with no way of escape.
    9 My eyes are blinded by my tears.
   Each day I beg for your help, O Lord;
      I lift my hands to you for mercy.
10 Are your wonderful deeds of any use to the dead?
      Do the dead rise up and praise you?
                         Interlude


11 Can those in the grave declare your unfailing love?
      Can they proclaim your faithfulness in the place of destruction?
12 Can the darkness speak of your wonderful deeds?
      Can anyone in the land of forgetfulness talk about your righteousness?
13 O Lord, I cry out to you.
      I will keep on pleading day by day.
14 O Lord, why do you reject me?
      Why do you turn your face from me?

15 I have been sick and close to death since my youth.
      I stand helpless and desperate before your terrors.
16 Your fierce anger has overwhelmed me.
      Your terrors have paralyzed me.
17 They swirl around me like floodwaters all day long.
      They have engulfed me completely.
18 You have taken away my companions and loved ones.
      Darkness is my closest friend.

many have been there and done that  though  out the ages

  but it is  more a spiritual thing now than the  literal
  or our time  is now , perhaps   to Know this ... :icon_flower:

[WhiteWings]

It does seem as though time is moving faster at least to me it does seem that way, yet a day is still 24 hours in measured time,

Well.... :icon_jokercolor:
The earth axis shifted because of the earthqauke. Days are now 6.8 microseconds shorter.
"Fore he knows time is short..."  :bgdance:

[CHB]

Yes, it does seem like time has speeded up, at least I think so anyway. I have said this many times just recently.

CHB

[SQ]

As if — the eternal now overlaps the temporary?

I couldn't answer a few days ago, but yes I see now.
The revelation was good to hear for me.
I am desiring the eternal.

[willieH]

willieH: Hi brothers Fire walker & Beloved Servant... :hithere:

To answer the question of the TOPIC...

Not only does it "seem" that time is speeding up, IMO it certainly IS and HAS BEEN all along... :nod:

Well Beloved Servant,

It does seem as though time is moving faster at least to me it does seem that way, yet a day is still 24 hours in measured time, there appears to be time on the one side and timelesness on the other, when my mind is on timeless things an hour can seem like a flash of light fleeting faster than one second.

To begin with... TIME is a subjective entity...  FIVE SECONDS within a 100 meter sprint is of the briefest of periods... but FIVE SECONDS with your hand on a stove burner, finds the very same "period" of TIME, as almost ENDLESS...  :heat:

This experience of time appearing to go faster I've noticed more as the years of age increase in my life, I have pretty well lived my three score and ten years, yet I do not feel that old inwardly and am still blessed with enough strength to be physicaly active and much of the work I do is manual, by the reason of that strength I more than not probably am going to see the four score years, yet it is one day at a time, and labor and sorrow, at least physicaly are part of those last ten to 12 years on the approach to the eighty year marker.

Well bro... I can relate... I am "threescore and 4.5 years old... and TIME is DEFINITELY moving faster than it was even 10yrs ago, let alone the years of my childhood.

I have been studying and praying about this entity (time) for quite a spell... and have come to believe that it is not only "speeding up", but that this shortening, is also an evidence of the mercy of God...

TIME has been deduced by Bible Scholars which have traced geneology time quantities, and have concluded that the witness of the WORD of God, adds up to approximately 6,000 years, since the "Creation".

TIME holds many mysteries which are somewhat, INEXPLICABLE... such as the DINOSAURS...

The "young earth -- Christian observation" obviously does not address the scientific NEED for Millions, even Billions of years to explain the DINOSAUR remains which are found buried in soil and rock, nevertheless the EVIDENCE of the DINOSAURS remains... and becomes a quandary for the Believer of the WORD, which indicates the quantity of time as noted in the WORD -- to be much too limited for this EVIDENCE to exist...  So what have we?

One thing we must take into consideration is that TIME (a continuously CHANGING entity) emerged from ETERNITY (a continuous UNCHANGING entity)...

In our observation of TIME, ...ALL things within IT are CHANGING continuously... why would it not follow suit that TIME itself is CHANGING as well?  I think it to be a perfectly sound conjecture that it in fact IS CHANGING as well...  for example:

If a BUILDING is on fire, and all things within it are CHANGING because of the fire... then it is NOT UNREASONABLE to think the BUILDING itself, is also CHANGING because of the FIRE...

Concerning this issue, ...I hold TWO beliefs...

(1) that TIME is a "FIRE" in which we burn (Lake of FIRE) and...

(2) that TIME itself is accelerating just as does ANY FIRE, accelerate as it BURNS...  FIRE burns SLOWLY at first... but as it SPREADS it's process ACCELERATES and becomes ALL CONSUMING.

It is my belief that TIME in its initial stages was "moving" IMMENSELY SLOWER than it is "moving" today.

By comparison, ...the SECOND hand on a precision watch (as I see it) somewhat illustrates TIME"s MOMENTS moving TODAY (likely moving even FASTER than said second hand moves)...

Whereas the movement of the HOUR HAND on a watch (as I see it) somewhat illustrates TIME's MOMENTS moving IN THE BEGINNING... (likely even SLOWER than said hour hand moves)...

The "HOUR" hand on the watch is MOVING, yet that "movement" is so SLOW, that the "movement" is NOT observable...  Because it is NOT OBSERVABLE, does it therefore mean that it is NOT MOVING?  Of course not!

A "duration" of a minute in the life of ADAM could (possibly) by comparison to our present observation of TIME represent THOUSANDS of YEARS (maybe even more)...

Let us put into perspective that the Human race has actively moved AWAY from HOLINESS for approximately 6,000 years... and that the movement of TIME from the UNCHANGING entity of ETERNITY,  within the day of Adam & Eve... when there was only TWO SINNERS present... has ESCALATED to almost SEVEN BILLION SINNERS!  

Also ...TODAY we also have more detailed and premeditated method (motivated by selfishness and depravity), aided by technology to ASSIST in the ESCALATION of our SINFULNESS as a population that those in the EARLY "days" of the human race did NOT have.

Which also can also give birth to the conjecture that the DISTASTE (within the HOLY realm of GOD), of  its presence, likely GROWS with the entity of SIN (immensely) multiplying exponentially before it.  

It is also reasonable, that GOD, in stating that He would SHORTEN the DAYS – Matt 24:22 – Mark 13:20 – does not mean that He DELETED the NUMBER of "days" for the LAST DAY was set in place, from the BEGINNING – Isaiah 46:10 – and the DAY and HOUR of CHRIST's return also "set" accordingly within the context of "shortening" of TIME --  Matt 24:36

So HOW does He therefore "SHORTEN" days?  I say and BELIEVE, that this "shortening" it is within the ACCELERATION of the FLOW of TIME.

Man does not "affect" God... it is the opposite.   GOD and His determinations "affect" all men.  

In his DECLARATION of the course of TIME... did He include the "shortening" of it... which does NOT DELETE ANY of it... rather, "affects" it...  as I BELIEVE... by accelerating its FLOW, and thereby its DURATION.

ALL the moments are in the final tally... but the EARLY MOMENTS of man, were extremely "LONGER", than the (mercifully) "SHORTENED" --- LAST MOMENTS of man...

ALL this is according to His MERCY... which let ADAM live LONG in a significantly LESS SINFUL world... as he SOWED very little of EVIL ...MERCIFULLY reaping LITTLE sorrow, LIVING LONG... and,

WE in this day SOW of EVIL, much more... living SHORTER TIME, in a significantly MORE SINFUL world... MERCIFULLY reaping LESS sorrow than if we LIVED LONG, as did those in the ancient days...

:Peace:

...willieH :grouppray:

[firstborn888]

Time HAS sped up since the Chilean earth quake. We all lost a little over a millionth of a second out of each day.

And I NEEDED that extra time!!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1255028/Powerful-Chile-earthquake-shifted-Earths-axis-days-shorter.html

[willieH]

Time HAS sped up since the Chilean earth quake. We all lost a little over a millionth of a second out of each day.

And I NEEDED that extra time!!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1255028/Powerful-Chile-earthquake-shifted-Earths-axis-days-shorter.html

Reminds me of a song... "too much time on my hands"....  :laughing7:

...willieH :grouppray:

[Redlettervoice]

.

TIME has to do with MAN
and His personal journey into God
where there is NO time.

HE is a TIMELESS God, for HE IS IN ETERNITY.

And TIME shall be no more.
I have heard it said, "no more delay" .......

It is interesting that it was spoken of wise men
that they knew the TIMES.

The Bible and the journey we have into God
is NOT a 'chronoligally' written subject.,
historically speaking, man takes it to "be" that
way, hence Jesus came 2,000 years ago......
but it is spiritual....hence JESUS came into
this earth, when the TIME in the plan of God
was to manifest HIM who had been "hidden"
DURING THE OLD TESTAMENT TIMES.

Since everyone of us is on some "time table"
that makes sense to us, and perhaps not to others,
this is cause for much misunderstandings, hence
we MUST HEAR this correctly, that a DAY IS
LIKE A THOUSAND YEARS, AND A THOUSAND
YEARS LIKE A DAY.

It is a DAY known only unto God, a DAY in which
it is neither light nor dark, but at the END OF THAT DAY
IT SHALL BE LIGHT..........LIGHT BEING UNDERSTANDING.

That DAY came to some when Jesus walked beside them
and opened their "understanding" OF THE SCRIPTURES.....
THE END OF THE DAY HAD ARRIVED TO 'THEM' BUT
WE WERE NOT EVEN BORN YET.

HENCE, TIME IS WITHIN OUR JOURNEY.

WE all have 5 days for instance when we eat manna,
but on the 6th day, we eat some incorruptible word.
We are 'BORN AGAIN"....being born again thru this
incorruptible.  This incorruptible does not come thru man,
it is pure.......comes from ABOVE....and leads us to
that ETERNAL SABBATH that is the DAY of REST.

Evermore seek to enter that REST.

Love you all.

[CHB]

If a BUILDING is on fire, and all things within it are CHANGING because of the fire... then it is NOT UNREASONABLE to think the BUILDING itself, is also CHANGING because of the FIRE...

Concerning this issue, ...I hold TWO beliefs...

(1) that TIME is a "FIRE" in which we burn (Lake of FIRE) and...

(2) that TIME itself is accelerating just as does ANY FIRE, accelerate as it BURNS...  FIRE burns SLOWLY at first... but as it SPREADS it's process ACCELERATES and becomes ALL CONSUMING.

Wow willie!!! :mshock:

This is amazing, thank you.  :thumbsup:

I always thought that time was speeding up but never thought of it like this.

CHB

[sheila]

 Great Posts! Thanks...

  there is a 'time' for every purpose and activity "under" heaven...

   Ecc3...I noticed the following 'seasons' and purposes are the good/evil expierance

   HE HAS ALSO "SET" ETERNITY IN THE HEARTS OF MEN;

  YET, THEY CAN NOT FATHOM WHAT GOD HAS DONE FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END

     v 16  and I saw something else under the sun;

  in the place of judgement wickedness was there. in the place of justice wickedness was there

   I thought in my heart,  God will bring to judgement both the righteous and the wicked,

  FOR THERE WILL BE A TIME FOR EVERY ACTIVITY,

  A TIME FOR EVERY DEED


  Hey, whose this that tries to 'change' the 'set times'?

  He will speak against the Most High and oppresss His saints,

and try to change the set times and the laws. And the saints

will be handed over for a 'time' times and half a time.

   BUT THE COURT WILL SIT, AND HIS POWER WILL BE TAKEN

  AWAY AND COMPLETELY DESTROYED,FOREVER

  Then, the Sovereignty,power and greatness of the kingdoms

under the whole heaven will be handed over to the saints,

the people of the MOST HIGH. HIS KINGDOM WILL BE AN

EVERLASTING KINGDOM,AND ALL RULERS WILL WORSHIP AND

OBEY HIM


  THIS IS THE END.....of the matter

[willieH]

willieH: Hi RLV... :hithere:

TIME has to do with MAN
and His personal journey into God
where there is NO time.

MAN is an entity which shows that "CHANGE" [evil] is other than GODLY (for GOD does NOT CHANGE)... and TIME is the FIRE (lake of,) in which all this "CHANGE" takes place...

MAN is an IMAGE, called the "earthy" vessel -- 1 Cor 15:47-49 -- Rom 9:21 -- in which the [spiritual] SONS of GOD journey FROM the side of the Father [earthy], ...BACK to Him [spiritual] -- Luke 15:11-32  :wink1:

HE is a TIMELESS God, for HE IS IN ETERNITY.

And TIME shall be no more.
I have heard it said, "no more delay" .......

It is interesting that it was spoken of wise men
that they knew the TIMES.

The Bible and the journey we have into God
is NOT a 'chronoligally' written subject.,
historically speaking, man takes it to "be" that
way, hence Jesus came 2,000 years ago......
but it is spiritual....hence JESUS came into
this earth, when the TIME in the plan of God
was to manifest HIM who had been "hidden"
DURING THE OLD TESTAMENT TIMES.

Since everyone of us is on some "time table"
that makes sense to us, and perhaps not to others,
this is cause for much misunderstandings, hence
we MUST HEAR this correctly, that a DAY IS
LIKE A THOUSAND YEARS, AND A THOUSAND
YEARS LIKE A DAY.

It is a DAY known only unto God, a DAY in which
it is neither light nor dark, but at the END OF THAT DAY
IT SHALL BE LIGHT..........LIGHT BEING UNDERSTANDING.

That DAY came to some when Jesus walked beside them
and opened their "understanding" OF THE SCRIPTURES.....
THE END OF THE DAY HAD ARRIVED TO 'THEM' BUT
WE WERE NOT EVEN BORN YET.

HENCE, TIME IS WITHIN OUR JOURNEY.

WE all have 5 days for instance when we eat manna,
but on the 6th day, we eat some incorruptible word.
We are 'BORN AGAIN"....being born again thru this
incorruptible.  This incorruptible does not come thru man,
it is pure.......comes from ABOVE....and leads us to
that ETERNAL SABBATH that is the DAY of REST.

Evermore seek to enter that REST.

Love you all.

RLV... you are a very poetic and cool person!  :thumbsup:

I enjoyed reading this! :boogie:

...willieH  :cloud9:

[willieH]

willieH: Hi CHB... :hithere:

If a BUILDING is on fire, and all things within it are CHANGING because of the fire... then it is NOT UNREASONABLE to think the BUILDING itself, is also CHANGING because of the FIRE...

Concerning this issue, ...I hold TWO beliefs...

(1) that TIME is a "FIRE" in which we burn (Lake of FIRE) and...

(2) that TIME itself is accelerating just as does ANY FIRE, accelerate as it BURNS...  FIRE burns SLOWLY at first... but as it SPREADS it's process ACCELERATES and becomes ALL CONSUMING.

Wow willie!!! :mshock:

This is amazing, thank you.  :thumbsup:

I always thought that time was speeding up but never thought of it like this.

CHB

Glad you found it helpful sis...  :friendstu:

...willieH  :cloud9: