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The Father’s Regret
Chapter 37

Eternal Moments

Make the most of your regrets. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Henry David Thoreau

The Judge looms imperceptibly within His chambers brooding over His Son and fallen pinnacle of creation as they litigate Earth’s fate.

The Father touches the chambers contents fondly. Unlike Satan, His memories of the past, present and future are crisp and clear. Every manuscript and literary device, every psalm sung and implement of worship full of even greater meaning now than before the Fall. Every item of discovery and scientific breakthrough, every painting and work of art elicit a Father’s pride over His creation’s accomplishment...

...and pain over trillions of acts of entitlement.

One treasured memento towers above the rest, encapsulated in a massive exquisitely carved crystal. A ring of immense holograms, twelve records of Heaven’s most memorable moments of praise.

The first memorializes Lucifer’s debut performance conducting Heavenly worship.

The second captures the highest moment of praise ever attained by angels.

The third is the beauty and splendor of the final service before the angelic revolt.

The fourth captures Heaven’s first heartbroken worship in response to the Insurrection of their brothers.

The fifth records the awe and wonder of men and angels at the Incarnation and Earthly birth of God the Son.

The sixth are odes of sorrow and psalms of outrage over the torture and crucifixion of the Redeemer.

The seventh is Heaven erupting in dance and praise as the resurrected Savior leads the first triumphal procession of humanity’s redeemed safely home.

The remaining five holograms capture future events as having already happened.

The eighth is of a like never been seen before. “Silence in Heaven for a half hour” as the Advocate’s brakes open the Seventh Seal of the scroll of God. Fire flashes from the Golden Alter before the Throne. The prayers of saints mix with incense and are cast as embers upon Earth. The first of Seven Trumpets sound alarm!

The ninth was a two part performance. The first of exuberant joy as Michael and his angels cast the Dragon and his angels from Heaven. The second, a symphony of woe over the Dragon having come to Earth.

The tenth records One like the Son of Man, crowned and arriving in clouds of glory with an innumerable company of men. Enraptured in worship, these are those saved from Earth’s final tribulation and the wrath of God.

The eleventh foresees the King of Kings and Lord of Lords astride a white horse, accompanied by the armies of Heaven. Praise erupts for the Conqueror of the Antichrist and his False Prophet. Casting them alive into eternal fire and brimstone, He and the saints reign on Earth a thousand years!

The twelfth and final hologram is also two parts. First is the Great White Throne Judgement. Land and sea, Death and Hell give up their dead. All who’s names are not found written in the Lamb’s Book of Life are thrown with Satan and his angelic rebellion into the Lake of Fire. Then God creates a new Heaven and Earth as New Jerusalem descends from God as a bride adorned for her husband. For the first time in eternity Heaven and Earth join in jubilant praise. God dwells with men, wiping away every tear from their eyes and making all things new!


The Burning Question

A single word plagues the Father’s mind, inflaming Omnity’s heart as Creator and creation share a burning all consuming question.

Why?

Of course He knew why from Eternity. As long as He’d knew he’d be here and now feeling the full impact of the question anyway. Ages before creating angels and long before their Rebellion He was intimately familiar with every detail comprising the question’s Answer.

It was His to understand every concept, opinion and point of view. His to know the myriad of primary, secondary and tertiary reasons for Lucifer’s and Adam’s Rebellion. And that of billions angels and tens of billions of men and women.

Still He asks, Why?

God muses that such a tiny question should be at the heart of so great a mystery. One tiny word to bare the weight of such scrutiny by both creation and Creator. For bound up with the answer is the eternal fate of over a hundred thousand million souls.

God yearns for more than explanation. For more than understanding. He languishes for a gift even He can neither give or receive.

His family’s lost innocence.

As the Redeemer is acquainted with grief, so too He carries creations sorrows. Like Father like Son, it was a family trait. Yet His sorrow has a solitary component unknown to even the Advocate. Filling the eternal now, the Father of creation feels its every woe from before time and would do so forever. He would remember it all. Long after the Rebellions were dealt with and the redeemed mesmerized by Heaven’s joys.

Forced to smile, He savors creation’s awe of the incomparable wonders soon to be revealed. Marvels such “as eye has not seen, ear has not heard nor has entered into the mind of men...”

He shares both His children’s boundless joy and bottomless sorrow. Like Mary, the mother of the Redeemer, He treasures every precious moment, storing them up against grief.

His is the capacity to experience everything in infinite detail. His is to carry the weight of knowing from beginning to end, baring the brunt with an intensity unknown to all but the First Person of the Trinity.

His is the story to which Job’s life was a metaphor. Like the patriarch of patience, His goodness proved an occasion for evil. Like Job He suffered great loss. His blessings raided. His beloved children destroyed. His soul wracked with pain and misery. And like Job, His latter state would exceed the former.

Yet despite the day of reckonings approach, or maybe because of it, the Father groans over the question.

Why! Why should those given everything demand more? Why prefer lies over truth, horror over beauty and evil over goodness? Why had so many chosen eternal death over everlasting life?

And what! What horrific fault had creation found in their Him to incite insurrection? What more wouldn’t He have given had they only asked? What can even He do with the gaping whole in His heart left by billions He’s loved and lost?

From the height of Omnity the Judge looks down through time and eternity at the aftermath of Lucifer’s revolt, the angelic rebellion and man’s expulsion from paradise. Weeping as only a Parent can, between sobs God the Father moans the words to scripture, the truth of which fills His soul with eternal regret, “how.. the.. mighty... are.. fallen...”



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