God’s foreknowledge is the key to scriptures that would otherwise be mysterious. “Known unto God are all his works, from the beginning of the world.” (Acts 15:18) Here are 10 things that God foreknew from the Foundation of the world:
1. Matthew 13:35 — His Secrets
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things kept secret from the foundation of the world.”
2. Matthew 25:34 — His Prepared Kingdom
Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.’
3. Luke 11:50 — The Bloodshed of His Prophets
That the blood of all the prophets that was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation (those living in the time of Christ).
4. John 17:24 — His Love for Jesus
Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
5. Ephesians 1:4 — His Chosen Believers
Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love.
6. Hebrews 4:3 — All His Works
For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest,’ ” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
7. 1 Peter 1:20 — Christ’s Appearance in Time
He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these last times for you.
8. Revelation 13:8 — The Slain Lamb
All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9. Revelation 17:8 — The Book of Life
The beast that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
10. John 17:5 — His Glory in Christ
“And now, O Father, glorify me together with yourself, with the glory which I had with you before the world was.”
Commenting on Acts 15:18 – “Known unto God are all his works, from the beginning of the world,” As John Gill put it: “And therefore nothing comes to pass by chance, but only by God’s appointment…all the things which God does in the church and in the world, were foreknown and predetermined by him from the beginning of the world.”
Knowing this should not make us fatalistic about things, as though we had no part to play in them. God foreknew what we would or would not do, but that still requires that we have to do or not do them.