humanity. Most people today think of God as distant and uninvolved, if they think of him at all. It’s “deism”—the belief that the Creator leaves the world to its own devices: God is functionally absent. But notice how God describes himself. We would expect him to say, “who is, and who was, and who will be”. That would be using the present, past and future of the verb “to be”. But God changes the verb when he speaks of the future. He is. He was. And he is coming. God is going to intervene in history.