The Bible & Time Travel
Scripturally, the Bible doesn’t seem to provide a definitive answer as to whether time travel is possible, noting every person has an appointed time for their death (Heb. 9:27), our lives were “ordained” and “written in [God’s] book before one of them came to be” (Ps. 139:16), and that God is outside of time and space, “declaring the end from the beginning” (Isa. 46:10, NKJV).
The Bible says every event happens according to God’s plans and timing (Gen. 21:1; John 7:8; 1 Tim. 2:6), so even if people could travel through time, the events would adhere to God’s timing and be under His control.
Throughout Scripture, God often gave people visions, allowing them to witness future events, including the prophet Daniel (Dan. 7:13–14) and the apostle John (Rev. 1:9–19). The argument can be made that what they and other biblical prophets experienced was a form of time travel.
“Did you know there are examples of a strange form of time travel in the Bible?” Josh Peck, a biblical researcher and documentary filmmaker, asked in his Prophecy Watchers magazine article, “Biblical Time Travel and the Two Witnesses.” “It’s not what we typically think of when it comes to time travel. No one in the Bible jumps into a high-tech machine and travels to the past or the future. However, it seems that God Himself has initiated a type of time travel for His prophets in the past.”
In the Bible, we find Moses and Elijah traveling forward in time, Peck argued, to see Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration (Matt. 17:1–13; Luke 9:28–36); Philip was whisked away by the Holy Spirit from the Ethiopian eunuch’s side to a different city in a blink of an eye (Acts 8:39–40); and we find Ezekiel carried away by the Spirit of God, one moment sitting in his house, and the next inside the temple (Ezek. 8:1–4).
Some have even claimed that Trump is a time traveler, helping explain his vast wealth and rise to the political pinnacle of power. Even though some of the information about the connection between the Lockwood novels and the Trump family is incorrect (for example, Don Fum is a fifteenth-century Spaniard, so he doesn’t live on Fifth Avenue in New York or travel with Baron Trump, who also doesn’t live in New York), videos and other posts on the subject have gotten millions of hits. In a recent Newsweek article, Benjamin Lynch noted Ingersoll’s novels feature the character Baron Trump and his enigmatic guide Don, reigniting conspiracy theories about Trump and his youngest son, Barron Trump.
“Time travel talk was reignited after a viral TikTok…since viewed more than 5.9 million times, discussed Ingersoll Lockwood’s [books],” Lynch wrote. “Lockwood’s stories became a hot topic of conspiracy theorists, some of whom claim the Trump family has a time machine after the Republican entered the White House in 2016. In the new video post, user mattyicerants said: ‘I’ve thought about this every day for the past two years: In 1888, a man named Ingersoll Lockwood wrote a book called Baron Trump’s Marvellous Underground Journey, where a 10-year-old boy named Baron Trump who has a mentor named Don, who is a rich man who lives on Fifth Avenue in New York City. He and Don travel to Russia to find a portal to a magical underground world.’ The TikTok user pointed out the books’ author lived in New York City at the same time as Serbian-American scientist Nikola Tesla, who some conspiracy theorists often suggest was a time traveler. According to some, the name of the book’s character, Baron, which is short for the Germanic name ‘Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian Von Troomp,’ is further evidence of time travel. In real life, ex-President Trump descends from German immigrants to the U.S.”
In YouTube videos that have garnered millions of views, many have posited dark undercurrents of speculation and conspiracy surrounding the Trump family’s ties to prophecies and time travel.
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