1.21 Gigawatts of Prophetic Time Travel
What would be your first reaction to hearing a teaching centered around a couple of verses in Scripture allegedly showing how Jesus time traveled, and we could access the eternal realm as well with the aid of time traveling angels? No, my blog has not been hacked by a New Age teacher, and I have not binge watched Back to the Future or Quantum Leap. To my dismay, there are actual teachings out there telling professing believers they can time travel in order to change the past, as well as the present by pulling the future into the now.
People are told personal testimonies from leaders of how they travel back in time through prayer and even communion on a routine basis, altering their family bloodline thousands of years past so that diseases are removed. Some testify of receiving anointings from deceased men and women revered in the charismatic movement while they time traveled. There even seems to be an association with inner healing as Jesus is invited to go back into a moment in time in order to bring healing, to shift events, and to recreate the memory altogether to where the memory altered. I wish I was making this up, but sadly, I am not.
Why address an issue like this? I mean, it sounds like a fringe type teaching, right? Surely, no one believes this is possible or Biblical. Actually, tens of thousands and even hundreds of thousands of people are listening to these types of teaching with open ears and a seemingly closed Bible. If time was taken to go back to Scripture and to see what is being taught and claimed about this, many people would be spared of this deception and spiritual damage leading them away from the truth and from Christ.
With this type of teaching, questions come to mind that seem fair to consider. With the claims of mass healing and mass deliverance by the very practice of time travel, why not share these videos with everyone? There are claims of strong anointings on the recorded broadcasts. If this is true, then sharing these recorded programs and materials would be vital, and no other future materials would be necessary.
Another question coming to mind is why those claiming to have this power and anointing of time travel do not enter hospitals and psychiatric wards and heal them by these means. As I listened to some of these leaders expound on this teaching and mention the power to evangelize on the streets with time travel, I could not help but think about this question. I also could not help but wonder what gospel would be presented to the people on the streets when it was being associated with time travel on the broadcast. It was another reminder that what Christ did on the cross in accordance with Scripture is simply not sufficient in the eyes of those who want more. The awe of His death, burial, and resurrection for our sin and His ministry of reconciliation is not appealing enough.
The Eternal God
Who doesn’t want a “do over” in their past? Who wouldn’t want something good from the future brought back into the present? The thought of being able to travel back in time and to alter a generational sickness is appealing to people. Altering a past traumatic event is desired by us all. It sounds too good to be true because it is. If we really consider what is being taught, we will soon find another nicely wrapped package straight from the garden of Eden, and the ill-conceived gift of controlling time is the desire to be like God. God is the only One who is eternal and controls time. Satan has not stolen time from the church as some may allege. We cannot time travel to alter the course of events, and frankly, the desire to control such things denies our essential need for the Savior while trying to be the savior ourselves. It denies His sovereignty. Simply stated, we cannot possess and wield attributes exclusive to God, and His eternality is exclusive to Him.
There are far greater things to ponder and to realize in this life. The Lord God Almighty is sovereign. He is eternal and unconfined by time, and while we are bound within His creation by the time He created, we who are believers can be comforted by the eternal God who is with us and who hears our prayers and knows our every needs. He is personal to us and with us. He does things at the proper time (Romans 5:6, Titus 1:3, 1 Timothy 2:6). Because of Jesus Christ, we rest in the truth of His Word testifying of Him.
We are encouraged by Paul’s words inspired by the Holy Spirit in Philippians 3:12, “Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Chris Jeus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” We are never told to time travel in Scripture. We cannot redeem the past by claiming dominion in the present. We look to Christ, the author and finisher of our faith in every situation and circumstance. We trust His ways and we praise Him for the ministry of reconciliation, making us new creations with the old passing away (2 Corinthians 5:17). We do not need to invite a Jesus of our own imagination into past memories in order for them to be recreated and altered, and we are not instructed to commission time traveling angels. These practices are spiritually dangerous, greatly concerning, and unbiblical. Jesus Christ is sufficient for us. His gospel is sufficient for all time.
Listen to episode from The Lovesick Scribe podcast as we discuss in depth the teaching of time travel: 1.21 Gigawatts of Prophetic Time Travel – The Lovesick Scribe Podcast | Podcast on Spotify
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This is an answer to prayer for me. 5 years ago when I first gave my life to Christ, I was very vulnerable and was searching for physical healing. I ended up being invited to a Christian group in Kansas City that I now understand was a very charismatic cult on a farm. It’s truly humbling to think back, and realize that as a rational, critical thinker I could be drawn into something like that but it was felt powerful and I was truly vulnerable in my new walk of faith. Thankfully, I had family members who all were prayerful and discerning to help draw me away early on and i was able to walk away with my own discernment and prayer as well.
That first week there however, they taught heavily on many charismatic teachings and as a former Catholic I was completely overwhelmed, frightened but also awed. The very first healing practice we did and continued regularly we’re called “Jesus Encounters”. A group surrounded you, you prayed a very specific casting out prayer, and then you were left to encounter Jesus in your imagination. It wasn’t guided by anyone, you just closed your eyes and waited. In those times which often lasted for an hour, I had many experiences that seemed to gently bring healing and truth about who I was, how Jesus saw me, how he redeemed past memories. Memories like going back to childhood, and having Jesus sit with me and comfort me through painful times. A vision of the pit I was in, with Jesus doing the work to lift me out of the pit and to set me on solid ground where my childhood dog was there to comfort me, as He told me that He saw me how Bailey sees me. With pure love and without sin. Those were sweet and healing moments that felt personally relatable and loosely grounded in scripture. I felt it was so real because how else could I have my mind completely immersed in this without interjected thoughts and distractions? But then things started to get weird. I had an encounter going back to a fortress where my generational family had been locked up. Jesus fought a battle against demons and I then unlocked the cages to supposedly release my family from generational sin. And then I “met” my stillborn sibling who was born after me. Jesus told me I suffered from survivors guilt and that her name was Grace. During that same hour, my mom’s best friend’s granddaughter Grace was born so I kept having all of these supposed affirmations in the real world that what I went through was real and valid. I was set on writing a book about everything that I experienced. In many ways it did feel healing, but then the demonic attacks started coming. I only spent a week there, but it took me 9 months to sleep without the light on. And as I dug into God’s word, with the support of other believers, I was able to come out from that experience with a complete trust in Jesus and God’s Word. I learned of Bethel, IHOP etc. and saw the danger in what was going on with that group in KC. Yet, as much as a I researched and searched the Bible, I couldn’t find concrete answers for the Jesus encounters. They were very powerful, they felt so real and they were surrounded by miracles in the natural realm. I never wanted to limit Jesus and His Holy Spirit as not powerful enough to allow for those encounters, but I started to let go of them and to lean more into scripture. This is the first time I’ve seen a written account of this practice with scriptural backing. And I love that verse from Philippians, yet the Holy Spirit is now providing new wisdom through it in looking back at those encounters. Thank you!! I held them closely for awhile, and the entire experience of being led into false teachings did ultimately lead me to deeper knowledge, dependence and faith in Jesus alone by His grace. I saw the teachings at this farm as very false and demonic, but for awhile I thought that maybe Jesus protected me through the encounters, and maybe He did meet me there and maybe those memories were still valid.
This past year, I actually realized that this charismatic farm was actually the enemy’s last and final attempt to deceive me before I fully committed my life to Christ. The enemy had thrown angel guides, reiki masters, seers- people who would uninvited come up to me and claim to know what was causing my health issues. They were literally coming out of the woodwork which is wild to think about, but I was discerning enough to never pursue those things and to stand firm in avoiding them. But there was a very real attempt to deceive me through the new age, and when that wasn’t working this farm came into the picture which is another deep deception (almost more upsetting and heartbreaking than any other because it teaches a false jesus). By God’s grace I now know that those encounters were demonic, as the enemy can never create but can misappropriate and deceive based on what God already has created (using the name Grace for my unborn sibling for example). I never ever needed additional affirmation beyond the Gospel and God’s word. That is what has led me to deeper healing and dependence. This just affirms that, and I have so much peace!
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