The Omnipotence of the Creator and Our Freedom

26.12.2023

Today's meditation was on Matthew 2:13-23.
Besides some insights on temptation, I received images of how the omnipotence of God and the freedom of our intentions can coexist simultaneously. How we, at every moment of our lives, fulfil His will 100% and yet do not lose our freedom.

No one but the Creator can know how everything is truly arranged). But for some reason, I was shown what I was shown. Perhaps to satisfy my curiosity))?

Before the meditation began, the phrase “1 day as 1000 years and 1000 years as 1 day” kept spinning in my memory.
I googled and found the source:

Do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

2 Peter 3:8

It's interesting why Peter places such a strong emphasis on this?..

Then I noticed that in the Gospel, phrases like “and thus the words of such-and-such prophet were fulfilled” often appear. That is, with the coming of Christ, many prophecies about Him were fulfilled.
However, one very strange detail caught my attention. The fulfilment of prophecies was often brought about by the mistakes and sins of various people. An example from today's passage is Joseph's fear of Herod's son. And where is human freedom in this if the event was predicted long ago, and circumstances were formed through sin?.. If Joseph had acted differently, would the prophecy not have been fulfilled? I asked Him: “How is this? How can this even work?..”

Then I felt that the phrase about 1000 years and one day must somehow be closely related to this incomprehensible contradiction. After these thoughts, I was again “taken” beyond space and time, and being there, I began to ponder what it means.

I saw an angel “diving” into three space-time points from today's passage to warn Joseph. Watching him, I suddenly realised that 1000 earthly years indeed seem like one day to him, as he sees them simultaneously, seeing the whole while being beyond time. And one day seems like 1000 years to him because he can return to the same space-time point an infinite number of times and relive it anew. That is, perhaps those who are beyond time relate to it as we do to space, with the only difference being that they can be in any of its points simultaneously.

Then a very interesting image came to me, which instantly answered my questions. And with it came two assertions, without which the mechanics of this image do not work.
The assertions were as follows:

1. The Lord sees all times, from the very beginning to the end, and all infinite variations of events in all possible timelines. We cannot say that this is not so, otherwise we limit God, and this contradicts His very definition.

2. The Lord is infinitely loving and caring. I have seen this more than clearly in my own experience, and for me, it is beyond doubt.

The image was this:
I saw our space-time as a huge film set with unusual properties, where the Creator acts as the Director, and all of us are actors directly influencing the plot with our free will. The Director's goal is to lead the film to the most favourable ending, while He can instantly play through all the film's variations from beginning to end, under any consequences of the actors' exercise of their free will.

Then, based on these 2 assertions, I played out a very primitive and infinitely simplified example of how Divine mechanics might work on the film set.

So, the Director starts the filming time, sends the actors onto the stage, watches the resulting film, and sees that the ending is quite sad, the actors with their free will have spoiled the entire plot and idea. They perished themselves and even destroyed the film set. And then He decides to send His Son into the plot to correct the ending. He plays the film time from the very beginning, determines the “fullness of time,” and voila, Christ is on Earth. The plot went according to a different scenario, but for some reason, a significant part of the actors paid no attention to Him, the effect is very weak, and everything is not right... Then the Director decides to place several prophets before Christ's coming and create anticipation and intrigue in the plot so that more attention is paid to the Son and perhaps fewer mistakes are made. He plays everything from the start, over and over, many times, adjusting circumstances, adding and removing events individually for each and globally, observing how each uses their freedom and achieving the most favourable plot development in every subsequent second of the film.
And the actors, seeing only one already accomplished final line, seem to feel that there is no free will, everything is predictable, and they were forced to err so that the words of the prophets and the Director's will would come true. In reality, they make the choice entirely independently, thereby realising His will, and would make it independently in all infinite variations. From their position, it is not visible that the caring Director added prophecies as one of many other factors creating the best conditions for the actors' development and provided them with the maximum number of chances for subsequent correct choices and a favourable ending overall.
At the same time, each actor, being in their current point of the accomplished timeline, is free to ignore these efforts and continue to err, which will ultimately lead to sad consequences for them. Or, conversely, change the quality of their choice for the better, leading to a more beautiful end to their plot.

One could say it differently.
The Director, looking at each played second, right in it, now, calculates and changes all possible combinations of the past so that this very second becomes the most favourable of all.
Or conversely.
The Director, seeing the result of the actors' choice at the present moment, adjusts subsequent circumstances so that the consequences of our choice are the most favourable.

In reality, it is not so important whether He changes something in the past or influences the future. What is important is that the contradictions between our free will and predictability and submission to the Lord exist only for our limited intra-temporal perception. Whatever choice we make with our true freedom, we will always fulfil His will. And this will is the most caring towards ourselves.