"For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the first ones shall not be remembered, neither shall they come into mind." Isaiah 65:17

Movement is a living thing. Change is inevitable. Nothing ever stays the same. Changes on a massive scale can happen slowly over long periods of time or quickly in the blink of an eye. "There is a time and a purpose for all things under Heaven." Kohelet 3:1

Time is a relative factor. What is considered slow to some is fast for another and what is fast for some is slow to another. Heaven and Earth do not move forward in time at the same speed or for that matter in the same direction. The natural order as we see it today moves at a precise and measurable speed. Those not educated enough to see beyond the limits of their physical eyes see only what is and believe what is has always been and always will be. They loudly proclaim in their limited insight that time moves today at a specific pace, it always has moved at this pace and always will. But, time and its speed are relative factors. Time does indeed speed up, sometimes quite considerably and sometimes it slows down almost to a crawl.

We have a Biblical example of extracted time dilation. In the days of Joshua, a great miracle occurred (Joshua 10:12-14). During one of the battles for the Holy Land (at Gibeon), Joshua called upon Heaven to hold the sun still in the sky to give more time to the Israelite forces to finish the battle with victory. Heaven complied. Now, we must ask an essential question. For those of us who accept this Biblical story as a fact and not just a story, how did it exactly happen? How could the sun stop moving, when indeed we know it is the Earth that rotates around the Sun? If the Earth stopped in its solar orbit, it would be similar to a car crash when a moving object hits a solid wall. Those inside or in this case on the Earth's surface would not stop; they would go flying off into space at an incredible speed of thousands of miles per hour. Indeed, if the Earth was stopped in its orbit all life on Earth would essentially be destroyed. Being that this was not the case, we must dismiss the literal understanding of this episode. This leaves us to ask, if the Earth did not stop, what then actually did happen?

To add deeper mystery to the matter our Sages have commented on this episode that when the sun stayed high in the sky, it only stayed still in that one specific place. For the rest of the world the sun proceeded to set and rise again in accordance to its normal schedule. This implies that there was a simultaneous dual reality location of the sun. Now, we are getting somewhere.

When Heaven answered Joshua's prayer, the miracle that occurred was that some kind of a time-warp bubble encased the surrounding area of the battlefield. Every place on Earth did not change; the order of the universe and celestial orbits did not change; what did change was the specific local. This local was apparently surrounded in some type of energy field that removed it from the surrounding space-time continuum. Life went on inside the bubble independent of life outside the bubble and eventually at a future point hours later, both caught up with each other and time was again synchronized. Now, this is a mighty feat. The technological theory of this is understandable today, although we may not have accomplished a working technology to implement it.

You may pause and question, why should I care about any of this? Although it may be intellectually interesting; what does any of this have to do with me? Well, here is where we get nice and personal!

You see, you, like almost everyone else is fully involved in the petty little affairs that make up our daily lives. We run around like chickens without a head, clucking and making so much noise about all the so-called important things that we are involved with and the believed essential things that we have to accomplish. Yeah, right!

If any of us were to cease to exist, even right at this moment, the world would continue to go on without us. Even our loved ones would mourn us and miss us, but they would get on with their lives. Ultimately, everyone is replaceable. We are all but cogs in the greater machine of life. We can easily be exchanged and replaced as ordained by He who runs the machine.

Our lives and our entire world is nothing more than a bubble in space and time, similar to that experienced in the days of Joshua. Our entire reality, everything which we think is so important and essential is nothing more than the relative reality in this self-contained space-time bubble. We see only within the context of our finite and relative bubble. We are so totally oblivious to the reality of the greater universe that exists outside of our little bubble.

Now, you may say, so what? As long as I am in my little bubble I am happy and frankly, I do not want to be bothered. I do not care about what is outside the bubble nor do I care to know anything about the greater universe. The bubble is my home and that's all that matters, to me.

How many of us feel this way? We may not like to admit it, even to ourselves, but the vast majority of people today think this way. They embrace the bubble and don't care at all about any other reality.

Well now, here's the problem. You see, bubbles are only temporary in nature. Joshua's bubble lasting for only a 24 hour period. Our Sages tell us that our space-time continuum bubble can only last for a maximum six thousand years. At present we count 5769 years, going on 5770 years, and we cannot be absolutely certain that our present state of measuring time is 100% correct. Even the six thousand year period is not a rigid number. Like everything is the real world of natural laws, there is movement and fluctuation. So when we say 6000 years, we have to say, approximately 6000, but not exactly. Indeed, the Zohar long ago expressed this exact sentiment and warned us that in proper time the bubble of our space-time continuum would indeed collapse.

Now, let me back up a bit and describe in a little bit more detail what exactly is this space-time continuum bubble in which we presently exist.