Indeed. This is one of the problems when dealing with such issues. As spiritual teachers, and now modern physicists also say, time is an illusion of consciousness. So we have to think in two different ways. We have to acknowledge that we live at a material level where time appears to be real. At the same time we have to acknowledge that at higher levels of reality this is not the case.

In this quote, God is speaking to someone existing at the material level, perhaps therefore speaking a language he could understand.