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Time Travelers of the Bible by Gary Stearman

December 3, 2011 at 1:07 PM 1 comment

Gary Stearman hit it out of the park, in my opinion.  I have briefly mentioned this book previously, but now that I have almost completed reading it, I wanted to provide a fairly in-depth review of the book.

Time Travelers of the Bible is, first of all, not a book you will simply sit down to read in one setting.  Secondly, you will likely find yourself going over parts of it numerous times.  This is not to say that Stearman’s writing is difficult to wade through, because it is not.  The reason you will find yourself going over numerous aspects of his book several times is due solely to the depth of material he brings to the fore.

After providing an introduction to the “Lure of Time Travel,” Stearman takes us further into the realm of traveling through time and space and the desire that seems to be inherent within humanity since our creation.  We want to know what is beyond us and if given the chance, we would like to think that we would go back and change some of the events that have occurred in history.

However, Stearman presents a picture of time travel that God alone has created and supervises.  The only people He has actually allowed to see the future are those prophets that were chosen specifically for His purposes.  In other words, God has seen fit to stoop to our corrupted level (though remaining completely separate from our corruption) so that we could gain glimpses of what He has set in motion and how things will become finalized.  No other god (using the term loosely) ever admits to revealing the truth of the future to us.  Some certainly pretend to do so and this seems to be one of Satan’s major thrusts, though he obviously cannot go too far into the future or even be all that specific about what will transpire in the future because like us, he is relegated to the present.  He can use his tremendous store of intellect and wisdom to make good, educated guesses about the future, but that is the best he can do, unlike God, who knows the future intimately because He has created it.

I personally like the way Stearman explains a number of things in his book.  For instance, understanding time as an expanding set of rings makes far more sense than seeing time as linear, with one line going in one direction back to Creation and the other moving ahead to the culmination of all things.

I have to say though that for me, the most astonishing aspect of what Stearman writes about is found in his discussion of Satan and how this being – that was created to be higher than all other created beings – not only fell through sin of his own, but by succeeding in causing the fall of Adam and Eve, became inexplicably bound up in the time/space dimension.  Prior to this, he roamed free and was not bound by the limitations of time.  He was a being of eternity, created initially to glorify God in all that he did, thought, and said.

As a creature who fell, certain things were taken from him, though he was still a creature of eternity.  However, once Satan intruded in on God’s Creation and specifically, deceived Eve into falling, followed by her husband, he became a creature tied to the same time that we as human beings are tied to.  This is really fantastic if seriously considered because by causing Adam and Eve to fall, Satan fell (again) with them.  Yes, he had already sinned in heaven and lost his position over all other created beings.

However, when he became the impetus for the fall of humanity, he entered into our sphere of existence.  From that point on, the same time that governs humanity, the earth, and the heavens above it, now governs Satan.  He now learned that he has an expiration date and that date will come to pass.  Moreover, there is absolutely nothing he can do about it.

Stearman notes that Satan – in spite of the truth of God’s Word – seems to have gotten to a point where he believes that he will overcome what God has placed in his path.  He seems to have become the subject of his own deceit as it were.  For Satan, there is no going back.  Just as Eve and Adam crossed a line from which they could not physically return (in and of their own strength), Satan is also impaled on the arrow of time (as Stearman notes in chapter nine).

This truth is abundantly freeing for the authentic Christian!  It is not that we glory in the demise of Satan, but that we look to God with greater knowledge of how true His Word is and that fact alone will create a sense of staggering awareness of God’s goodness!

Stearman also traces the steps of Ezekiel and what a journey it turns out to be.  You’ve probably read the book of Ezekiel as many times as have I; maybe more.  However, Stearman brings to the fore a tremendous source of honesty in his writing while also noting that Ezekiel was a prophet who actually participated in time-travel.  This he did under the auspices of God’s strength and power and the reason he did it was solely for the purpose of glorifying God, while being allowed to reveal to us what he gained from his numerous time-traveling missions.  Satan could only wish he could do something as grand as what God accomplished, however, Satan’s are poor excuses for reality.

Because of a response I received today to an article I wrote on astral projection, I cannot help but compare the experiences that people say they go through when they project their souls inter-dimensionally.  They describe situations that to them seem extraordinarily real.  They smell things.  They feel things.  They experience a variety of emotions; fear, joy, happiness, sadness – all this and more.  Yet, in the end, there is never a real reason for the events they just experienced, beyond themselves.  This is astronomically important!

Whenever God took a prophet and brought him to another place or even another time (as with the apostle John in the book of Revelation), the purpose was not simply for that prophet’s edification. It was to edify the body of believers we call the invisible Church!  In other words, there is a tremendous creation-wide reason for God bringing certain prophets into other dimensions.  This is never the case with the average New Ager who simply wants to astrally project themselves into other dimensions where nothing is real, yet it seems more real than the life they now live.

The insight that Stearman reveals to us in his Time Travelers of the Bible is manifold because he relies heavily on God’s Word, constantly quoting from it and referring to it.  He often journeys into the original language of the Old Testament – Hebrew – in order for us to gain more understanding and to see the connection between the very individual letters of the Hebrew alphabet and Creation itself. Beyond this, the subjects of aliens and inter-dimensional travel by demons is also discussed.

Time Travelers of the Bible is a book that I honestly thought would be difficult to get into because it contains 28 chapters, totaling over 535 pages.  It is not something that you breeze through.  You need to set time aside for it.  However, once I began reading it, I found myself carried along by it with one section remarkably segueing into the next.  My wife just bought her own copy to read and then we plan on studying it together.

The book retails for $19.95 and can be ordered through a variety of venues, including Amazon and Prophecy in the News.  This book is well worth the time it takes to read it and I cannot recommend it enough.

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