CHRIST is called “the EVERLASTING FATHER” (Isa 9:6). What can this mean? Some have suggested that these words were changed slightly by some biased Jewish scribe to confuse the reader into thinking this verse is describing God the Father and not His Messiah, the Child born and the Son given. But the words could well be translated “the Father of the ages.” Similarly, the writer to the Hebrews writes that God “has at the end of these days spoken to us through a Son, who is the predestined Lord of the universe, and through whom He made the ages” (Weymouth and Young’s Trans., Heb 1:2). No wonder that “the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy” (Rev 19:10) because history is His story. We worship with Paul and say, “From Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen” (Rom 11:36). Christ is the initial Source, the certain Force, and the predestined Course of history. Ultimately everything will culminate at His blessed nail-pierced feet.