God/Father of Those Who Fear Him.
Lesson Fourteen: by turtle

Today I am going to be sharing about what the word says concerning God's knowledge and
foreknowledge. In others words we will talk a little about predestination. There is a lot we do
not understand about God knowledge and wisdom. Yet even so there is a lot the Bible does
explain to us.  If we understood all of God's wisdom we would be God. If we understood all we
would not need God perhaps. In our human finite mind we try and grasp and understand what
God pre knows about our lives.

When I was in college another student gave a nice little interpretation of how things we put into
motion and continued to run.  For some reason it has stuck with me even to this day.  Though
Brian possibly was not a great philosopher no doubt he understood God put things into
motion. Almost in a four/four count like some music peaces. Each season having its own very
beat. Each season would continue to beat in the same pattern. Each season would come each
season would go, keeping perfect time with God purpose.

Brian though maybe not a doctor in degree he understood the basics of God's eternal program.
God’s plan is put into motion. He had a plan of salvation since the beginning of time for all
that would believe. God's elect or God's children would be be ones to receive His promise.  
Though some people's life like Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was for a particular purpose in the
plan it made no less their individual struggle with their faith. Moses was raised up for the time
in which He lived. Jeremiah was young prophet fulfilling the foretelling of future events for the
children of Israel to understand that God foreknew.

Let's begin to look at some verses first about God's wisdom and then going on into the
foreknowledge of God.

Job 12:9-25 KJV
(9)  Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?
(10)  In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
(11)  Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
(12)  With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
(13)  With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
(14)  Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there
can be no opening.
(15)  Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they
overturn the earth.
(16)  With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
(17)  He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
(18)  He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
(19)  He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
(20)  He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
(21)  He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
(22)  He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
(23)  He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth
them again.
(24)  He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to
wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
(25)  They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

Psalms 104:24 KJV
(24)  O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is
full of thy riches.

Proverbs 3:19-20 KJV
(19)  The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the
heavens.
(20)  By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

Daniel 2:20 KJV
(20)  Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and
might are his:

Romans 11:33 KJV
(33)  O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable
are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

Romans 16:25-27 KJV
(25)  Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of
Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world
began,
(26)  But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the
commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:
(27)  To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen. <Written to the Romans
from Corinthus, and sent by Phebe servant of the church at Cenchrea.>

1 Corinthians 1:23-25 KJV
(23)  But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks
foolishness;
(24)  But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the
wisdom of God.
(25)  Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger
than men.

God's foolishness is wiser then men. So now how can we even begin to grasp God's wisdom if
His foolishness is wiser then men. One can understand God's wisdom is actually beyond our
comprehending. It is vast. God granted to Solomon one thing to help Him rule. Solomon asked
for wisdom. Though Solomon wisdom was made known through out the country and beyond it
was still not as great as God's.

If God is so wise then what can I comprehend. I can comprehend is God foreknowledge of
certain events from the beginning and ending of time.

Isaiah 42:8-9 KJV
(8)  I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise
to graven images.
(9)  Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring
forth I tell you of them.

Isaiah 46:9-10 KJV
(9)  Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and
there is none like me,
(10)  Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet
done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

Daniel 2:28 KJV
(28)  But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king
Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon
thy bed, are these;

Matthew 24:36 KJV
(36)  But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father
only.

God fulfills His promises.

Acts 3:18 KJV
(18)  But those things, which God before had  by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ
should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.

Acts 15:18 KJV
(18)  Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

Predestination for those who would follow Him.

Romans 8:29 KJV
(29)  For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his
Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Romans 11:2 KJV
(2)  God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith
of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,

1 Peter 1:2 KJV
(2)  Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the
Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace,
be multiplied.

The elect or chosen by predestination is not exactly like it sounds. One must understand God
speaks to every man, women and child of who He is. It is our choice to believe or not to
believe. Yet at the same time He has a plan for those who choose to believe. God also know
each and every man's heart.

Proverbs 16:1-9 KJV
(1)  The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
(2)  All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
(3)  Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
(4)  The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
(5)  Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in
hand, he shall not be unpunished.
(6)  By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
(7)  When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
(8)  Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
(9)  A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

Acts 4:24-28 KJV
(24)  And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said,
Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:
(25)  Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the
people imagine vain things?
(26)  The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord,
and against his Christ.
(27)  For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and
Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
(28)  For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.


Romans 9:11 KJV
(11)  (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the
purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

Ephesians 1:4-5 KJV
(4)  According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should
be holy and without blame before him in love:
(5)  Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself,
according to the good pleasure of his will,

Ephesians 3:9-11 KJV
(9)  And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of
the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
(10)  To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be
known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
(11)  According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

1 Peter 1:18-20 KJV
(18)  Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and
gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
(19)  But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
(20)  Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these
last times for you,


This is not to hard to grasp. God foreknows and foreknew certain events and still continues to
speak of things to come.

John 16:13 KJV
(13)  Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall
not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you
things to come.


This elect thing and God chosen is still giving me a headache. Some get the idea that the elect is
preordained in the sense of specific people. You get on dangerous ground when you start
talking this. You get in the thought of I am so special i was chosen over you type of junk. And
maybe junk is to coarse a word for some. But the truth of the matter is it gives the impression
that only certain groups can know God and this is untrue. God desires all people no matter
race, creed or whatever, to come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

John 1:10-13 KJV
(10)  He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
(11)  He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
(12)  But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to
them that believe on his name:
(13)  Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of
God.

To those that receive Christ God gave the right to be children of God. Period in of sentence. No
if no buts all that would believe. We will discuss this more in perhaps the next lesson.

Back to God's knowledge.

1 Samuel 2:3 KJV
(3)  Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the
LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

Isaiah 40:28 KJV
(28)  Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the
Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his
understanding.

Matthew 6:8 KJV
(8)  Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of,
before ye ask him.

1 Corinthians 3:19-20 KJV
(19)  For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise
in their own craftiness.
(20)  And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

This is a good place to stop for this week. Next week we will look at God searching the heart of
man and the fact He knows us and has chosen us for a purpose.