One Thousand Years
Genesage
“Where?"
(Chapter 9:6)
One by one.
Man to man, the Son of Man, met each person. Those who had “heard the Word” now “saw the Word” and were saved. When they were alive they did not know the reason. They did not need to. They have lived life by faith in one who was to come.
He came.
Adam to Abraham, Eve to Bathsheba, each had died but “moments ago”. Each heard for but a moment in time. Each met Jesus for just a moment. Those moments were lifetimes as each one spoke, listened, heard, the Son of God, the Son of Man, address the Creation to the recreation, the “re-Creation” yet to come. God’s plan as each man had been a part.
All met Jesus face to face. All saw God and lived. All –relived the life of themself and the Son of Man as they looked into each other’s eyes. All could see themselves through the Eyes of God as he relived to them what He saw. When relived the life of Jesus. All choose life. All chose to bow the knee, confess the Lord, profess unbroken devotion to the “king of the universe”.
Thomas saw and felt it all as Jesus was there.
Jesus and Thomas Experienced it all together. Together they came out the other side. Thomas had been to “hell and back” with Jesus. Thomas began to realize more than he could think. It had so many components to what he saw. So much to think about. Too much to formulate just then or even later, months or years later…..maybe in a millennium………. he would comprehend it all.
Maybe..,
Holding Thomas out as easily as a Father does a child Jesus held Thomas up so he could look him in the eye. Tears were in God's eyes as He looked into and all through Thomas with the emotion only one from Heaven could emote. In that moment heaven and Earth again stood still. It paused, it waited, all listened and heard.
"I love you"
Thomas collapsed as one who had wrestled God all night.
As one who wrestled for a blessing and come out the victor. And like his ancestor before him, ya'acov, Jacob, God blessed Thomas.
God, the Son of God, Saviour of Thomas, Redeemer of His soul and lover like no other had ever loved him before, healed him of all his memories of the sufferings.
Together they had gone through them all and overcome.
The battle had been waged and Thomas come out the other side.
"He who has the Son has life, he who has not the Son of God, has not life" Thomas muttered.
There was a purpose and a meaning to his life.
And with that thought he fainted or slept as one dead yet alive.
