Look, the speed of light is only 300000 km/s or 186000 mi/s, roughly So yeah there's a whole bunch of stuffs happening before they actually do, or the other way around, depends how you look at it So yeah, it already happened, everything, we're only the delayed representation of everything ... Look, there's even a delay between the moment a thing moves and the moment you see the picture of that thing moving in your head through your eyeballs It's lag at every level Welcome to lagland Edit https://www.biblehub.com/bsb-strongs/genesis/1.htm >>The Creation (John 1:1–5; Hebrews 11:1–3) >>1 **In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.** >>2 **Now the earth was formless and void**, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. This is what the ancients said, this is what they warned of, this is what we're dealing with