PREDESTINATION

 PREDESTINATION

  11 /11/23

Predestination is God's ability to know and effect events that have not yet happened.  An example, Jesus was predestined and before his existence and was a prophetic figure. The church, the elect saints or 144,000 were predestined.  The Church existed before Pentecost,  before Jesus , as people were called and chosen, had the Holy Spirit and knew the gospel.  PreChrist saints were looking forward to Jesus post-Christ saints look back but both in faith. All these will be in the first resurrection,  along with another group called the innumerable multitude; they will not be made perfect without us. People who repent during the great tribulation will live into the millennium and will have the Holy Spirit and their first opportunity and hope of salvation.  They are not in the kingdom of God but are ruled over by it.  A thousand years later is the second resurrection, a first opportunity for those people then.  All of these groups were predestined but at different times.  So being one of the 144,000 is not the end of God's salvation plan, it is the beginning.  This is why scripture calls them the first fruits of God.  In those days before Jesus , God alone called and chose, there was no human ministry and this is how it is today as the church, the elect are in the wilderness once again as false Christianity now dominates the world.  

God indeed predestined all these groups and He also knows who will not be in His kingdom, example; the beast and false prophet  the later at the great white throne. Humanity has free will and even with the Holy Spirit a few will blasphem the Spirit.  Only those who commit the upardonable sin will either be thrown into the lake of fire at the great white throne or never be resurrected. I believe that the ultimate number who are saved will greatly outnumber those who are not.  In truth, all things were predestinated when you understand Gods attributes.