I think it's more accurate to think of time as the zeroth dimension, permeating throughout all 'higher' spatial dimensions and sort of gluing them together å la spacetime. Otherwise there would be no time in the dimensions we experience, so no events would be possible.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'