THE FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD

Foreknowledge is one of those words that you think you know what it means but you have never really studied it and checked it out  …. just to be sure. It is often misunderstood and maligned by well meaning people who are lazy and never truly studied what the Bible says about the subject.

Let me begin by telling you what it DOES NOT mean.

Foreknowledge does not mean that God looked into the future in order to know something. Remember, He is omniscient; He already knows all things, present, past and future. 

It does not mean that God looked  into the tunnel of time to see what man would do and then adjusted His plan accordingly… to fit man’s agenda and schedule. That is foolish.

Foreknowledge does not mean foresight. Romans 8:29 says that  “WHOM He foreknew” --- not what He foresaw. 

Foreknowledge means that God made a choice to love a certain group of people. His people. His sheep. His family. God “knew” intimately His own family members. Foreknowledge deals primarily with people, not facts. Read Amos 3:2; Genesis 4:1 and Matthew 1:25. 

Matthew 7:23: Jesus said “I never knew you”, right?

Jesus in John 10:14 says “I know my sheep and they know me.”

Turn to Acts 2:23 --- speaks of Jesus being delivered according to the foreknowledge of God.

I Peter 1:1-2 says that Christians are “exiles, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father.”

Read Romans 8:29 in its fullness.

Therefore foreknowledge refers to people not facts! God foreknew His people, lovingly and intimately and eternally.

He Came to Me

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