The language and mindset of the natural world tells us that the term
dimension comes from two words: "dis" and "metri", meaning to measure. A dimension to them is a measure in one direction. One of the three coordinates determining a position in space, and four coor-
dinates would then determine a position in space and time.

The dimensions then are the spatial factors or extensions by which
the size or magnitude of a body may be determined. So then dimension
is the measure of a thing, a place, a body, of that which occupies
tangible space. A companion term might be scope. Or, one might say,
the elements or factors which make up or measure the whole, the
aspects of what is being ascertained.

One might draw a line between two points and that would be a one-
dimensional measurement. By adding many lines, literally hundreds
and thousands of lines upon that line, a plane is created, making
a second dimension. Then, by repeating the process many times, and
stacking the planes upon the planes, a cube or third dimension is created. Now we have length, width and height. It is said to be three
dimensional. By adding time it becomes four-dimensional and on the
process goes, this is of course according to the intellect of man.
These physical measurements of dimension extend, of course, beyond
the fourth dimension.

This is not, however, what we mean when we are reffering to dimen-
sions from the point of spiritual insight. When we refer to dimen-
sions in the realm of the spirit, a whole new discipline must be understood. God is not of, compatible with or subject to the laws
of man or the definitions of man's intellect.

In God, the dimensional structure begins with Himself, "In the beg-
inning God." The first dimention from which all has its life, existence or form is God the Father, Creator of all that is. "In the
beginning God said." The second dimension is the word of God or,
more exactly, the words which God has uttered. All that can be
perceived by or contacted through the sense gates of man came into
being through the word spoken by God. "All things were made by Him
and apart from Him nothing came into being." (John 1:3) The agency
for this was the word spoken by God the Father- Creator. The third dimension then is the creation, what was created, the realm of man.
The creation, our universe and all that is in it, came into being or
took form by the Word of God, who empowered those words to create.
"He upholds all things by the word of His power." (Hebrews 1:3) The
fourth dimension is the realm of the complete rule of God or what
most call Heaven. The realm where His will, plan and purpose are fully done. The realm where there is no restraint or opposition to
impede His will. The fourth dimension is the realm of the Spirit,
the place of complete rule of all that is God. The arena from which all ability is drawn.

Earth was meant to be a reflection or extension of Heaven. Earth
could have been a mirror image of Heaven had Adam not violated God's
word. At the conclusion of time God will bring Heaven here and the two will be one. There is a present element of the fourth dimension
(the spirit realm) operating all around us. The Father, Son, Holy
Spirit and a host of angels are at work in the earth, but human
senses do not comprehend them. Rarely humans will get a glimpse of
them and their work. Few however, are able to bridge the divide of
between the sense realm of the third dimension and the spirit realm
of the fourth dimension. During these last days, as the Kingdom of
God becomes more and more pronounced in the earth, the frequency of
sightings, glimpses, crossing over of dimensions will increase in the Body of Christ.

TO BE CONTINUED