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Hope of Israel: What Is It? 243
Furthermore, in the second scene John saw the
souls of those who had been (pluperfect tense) beheaded
for the testimony of Jesus, together with those
who did not receive the mark of the beast; and these
all lived and reigned with Christ during the thousand
years; from which it is evident that the passage has
to do with things in the spiritual realm, where "the
souls" of departed believers are now awaiting their
resurrection bodies. It also indicates what is meant by
"the first resurrection," as will be shown below.
HELP FROM THE RELATIVITY THEORY
The Einsteinian Relativity Theory posits a relationship
between space and time of such nature as makes
time to be a fourth dimension of space. In the current
philosophical jarjon this idea is expressed by the clumsy
phrase, "space-time continuum." According to this
idea, one should never speak of a here, or of a now, in
his experience; for his here is never detached from
his now. Hence, in the interest of accuracy, the proper
expression is here-now.
As an illustration of what is involved in this view
of space-time, we are reminded that a man's infancy
and his old age are just as truly parts of himself as his
head and his heels. In other words, it takes the full
measurer of the time he occupies as well as the full
measure of the space he occupies, to make the complete
individual.
That there is indeed some such relation between space
and time seems evident when we reflect,
in the light
of the Scriptures upon the Being of God; for in that
light we perceive that, just as God is everywhere present
in space, even so He is everywhere present in time ;