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from Wolterstorff on God, time, and the future from "God and time: Four Views".

What about the future? Are future events likewise components of facts and can we refer to them? Tense theorists divide on this point. My own view, which I won't defend here since it won't make any difference in what follows, is that only when an event is occuring or has occured can it be a component of facts and can it be referred to. There are lots of general facts about the future, but no facts having particular events as constituents. (pp 196-197)

This episode stands out as one of the great numinous episodes of the biblical narrative. But it's representation of God as having a history, which can be narrated is not exceptional but typical of Scripture's representation of God: God responds to what transpires in human affairs by performing a succession of actions, including actions of speaking. An implication of this representation of God is that there's change in God's life; if a person does one thing at one time and different thing at another time, then there's change in that person's life. Behind the change in action, there is, in turn, a change in knowledge: God's successive responses to Moses were motivated by God's knowledge, each time, of Moses' new protest; the changes in God's knowledge tracked the changes in Moses' protest. These, I say, are implications of how scripture represents God: God has a history, and in this history there are changes in God's actions, responses, and knowledge. These I say are implications of how scripture represents God: God has a history, and in this history there are changes in God's actions, responses, and knowledge. The God of scripture is One of whom a narrative can be told; we know that not because scripture tells us that but because it offers such a narrative. I hold that an implication of this is that God is in time. If something has a history, then perforce that being is in time.

(taken from God and Time: four views, pg 188)

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