Time Applies in Heaven too!

Here’s one for people out there who believe that time is not an issue for God or people who have passed over to the other side…

How can God appreciate the music of the Angels in heaven unless they experience time?

On Earth we can capture a photograph in an instant and analyse it. It is a discrete unit of information that is absorbed in an instant by the subconscious but is analysed by the conscious mind over time. Music however is different, it is a sequence of notes and chords that are set out mathematically with rhythm, dynamics, complexity etc. Time is critically important for the production and absorption and enjoyment of music. If time did not exist, music would become noise as every note would be experienced at once.

So the choirs of Angels in heaven and God Himself must experience time, possibly in a much different way to us, or maybe they chose to experience it, but to experience an genius piece of music takes time and reflection.

Shem Jazeel

As I woke a few mornings ago the words Shem Jazeel were spoken to be loudly to me. You know that moment before you wake where you remember your dreams. It was said to me loudly and repeatedly until I woke. It was very powerful and kept playing on my mind for days.

Initially I thought it was referring to Semjaz, leader of the fallen angels from the Book of Enoch, but that didn’t sit right so I did a bit of research on it.

Apparently shem can mean several things including name, posterity, renown in Hebrew and Sumerian. It also could refer to Shem, the son of Noah, ancestor to the Shemetic or Semetic races. At least knew that already so I looked up Jazeel on Google and according to many online dictionaries it literally means ‘Strength of God’

I had never encountered that name before so it really stuck in my head.

Shem is often mistranslated as simply name and it works fine if you think of name as a reputation or fame e.g. he is going to make a name for himself. It basically refers to someone’s character or the stuff they are made of, after all a reputation or fame is based on the deeds of a person and therefore their character.

God’s shem YHWH means ‘I am’ i.e. everything, omnipresence and everlasting, so Shem Jazeel could simply mean the Renown of the Strength of God or the Strength of God is Renowned.

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