Very often, in the prophetic utterances of both the Old and the New Testament, the prophets speak as though the events have already occurred. And we can understand why this is the case. We are down here, separated from heaven and the glory of heaven in created time, and God, boggling our imaginations and minds, is outside of and above time. He is removed from this creation—outside of and above this created order, including time. And so, everything in the eye of God is in one eternal sweep of his thought, and he sees everything from the end to the beginning, and from the beginning to the end. And so, God may indeed look at all that is future as something which is past, because in his mind it is completed.1
Dennis Prutow
14 It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones,