Psalm 37:23 The LORD directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives.
Once we have decided to follow Him, He can predict / knows/ directs our next move. When He sees our hearts hardening He can predict / know what is coming. When a sinner does not repent He can predict / know the future of that person in that state. But He does not know if a sinner is going to repent. If He did John 3:16 would read ''For God so loved the world that when John, Mary, CCW and Justpassingthru believe in Him, they will not perish''. David was a man after God's heart Acts 13:22.
Yes, once all is said and done, He knows all that took place. As things are being done, He sees and knows what is being done. But this does not include 'pre-knowing' the decision of our hearts. He can see signs of a conversion / hardening coming. But He does not know it in advance / from birth. If God did....why put us on earth? Why not put all the good people that will be saved in heaven?
This is a very interesting verse. In the beginning it bats hard for Calvinism /predestination. But then it ends with ''I will do all that I please''.
When God came to Earth did He not limit His omnipotence? He put Himself at the mercy of humans and the devil. How can God do this when scripture says He is the alpha and Omega / The most powerful being in the universe? Surely...because it pleased Him? Being good, merciful, impartial pleases Him. So we have a God that can do whatever He wants. Can know whatever He wants. But does that translate into Him actually doing evil? 'Knowing things' that make Him evil? We need to add good + omnipotent + omniscient. God chooses to limit His omniscience. We see it in all the scriptures where He changes His mind and in how He says His will is X (all be saved) but reality is Y (not all will be saved).
This is just touching Calvinism now. Predestination / this verse simply means that we, ''''the whomsoever will'' Rev 22:17 are chosen to be in Christ. It is not saying John, Mary, CCW and Justpassingthru are chosen in Christ.
Anyone being chosen in Christ from before the foundations of the earth is subject to a condition. That condition is our will. Our will being controlled / known by God is not where scripture points.
We do not know what is going happen before it happens, but the Lords does, and this is why it very important to follow his guidance.
Since God knows about coming troubles, he can guide us around them. If we are disobedient then that trouble comes our way. If Adam would have listened to God things would have been a lot different today. Everything the Lord tells to do is for our benefit not his. The Lord directs the steps of the Godly, and he delights in their ways which was directed by him.
All the names written in "the Lamb's Book of Life" were written before the foundation of the world. These names were known of God before the earth was ever created, as God knows according to his foreknowledge every action of every man he will make before he makes them. We do not know what our actions will be until we do them. He gives man that choice to choose life or death, blessing or cursing.
Jesus as a man learned and grew in wisdom and stature in his physical mind, but in his divine nature which he also had, he knew all things, and he was never surprised over anything.
Even though God wants all men to be saved, yet all men will not be saved, but he knows all who will be saved, and this is why Jesus said...
Joh 6:39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day.
When do you suppose God gave to Jesus all those whom he will rise up? Is God sitting on the side lines waiting for people to come unto him so he can see who they are? Not a chance, as he already knew before the creation of the world who they were.
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