Do you know that “Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world”? Acts 15:18.

Is not this a positive statement that God foreknew the fall of Adam into sin and death, the inheritance of sin and death by all his posterity, and the redemption of all from this condition by our Lord?

Do you know that wisdom, justice, love, mercy and power are the five attuning elements of God’s character?— and that wisdom with its foreknowledge would not have permitted power to be exercised at the expense of even one creature being eternally tormented? — and that justice, love and mercy, in unison with wisdom, would have risen in opposition to the creation of living souls if it were to result in the eternal tormenting of even one?

Do you know that the very idea of God’s foreknowing, or predestinating, one single soul to eternal torment, is a species of blasphemy that is most repulsive to all honest hearts with thinking heads, and that such a doctrine is not even hinted at in scripture?

Is it not “appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” by that “righteous judge” whom God ordained from before the foundation of the world, to redeem and save all from this condemnation (death)? Heb. 9:27; II Tim. 4:8.

Is it not written that our blessed Lord, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, was taken by wicked hands and crucified? Acts 2:23.

Do you know that it was NECESSARY for a PERFECT man to DIE in order to redeem the DEAD, and that Jesus “for the joy [prize] that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame”? Heb. 12:2.

Do you know that God “foreordained from before the foundation of the world” that the blood of Christ should TAKE AWAY, not only the sins of the church, “but, also, the SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD”? I Pet. 1:19, 20; I John 2:2.

Did not God foreknow, and also predestinate, that the “little flock,” the church, the promised seed of Abraham, should be “conformed to the image [changed to spirit beings] of his dear son”? Rom. 8:29.

If we be Christ’s, are we not Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise, and as “we [the church] have borne the image of the earthy,” will we not “also bear the image of the heavenly”? Gal. 3:29; I Cor. 15:49.

Do you know that God predestinated an election of sons, and that the promised “seed” of Abraham, the “little flock,” the church, are elected “according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ”? I Pet. 1:2.

Did not God also foreknow and foretell of an age of FREE GRACE, when the predestinated and previously- selected bride (the church after “her” selection and marriage to the Lord) should say “Come”? While in this time, or age of election, NO MAN cometh unto the Lord EXCEPT the Father draw him, will not, in that time of free grace, the invitation be extended to ALL people? “Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.” John 6:44; 12:32; Rev. 22:17.

Do you know that God, “having made known unto us [the church, the little flock, the promised seed, the espoused] the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of the fulness of times, he [will] gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth; even in him, In whom also we have obtained inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will?” Eph. 1:5, 9,10,11.

Do not these question-quotations prove that God fore- knew the present groaning condition of creation? — and that he not only foreknew, but that he did also predestinate a great Saviour to redeem all from this fallen, sinful condition, by dying in their stead (I Pet. 1:2); — and did he not also predestinate that a “little flock” should follow in his footsteps, and “be conformed to the image of his Son” (Rom. 8:29), and that they in turn should bless the residue of men with restitution? Acts 15:16-17; 3:21.

If all these foreknown and predetermined plans of God be true, will not Christ, THE HEAD, and the church, his body, bring to pass the grand and glorious “restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began”? Acts 3:21.

Can you not see that God has predestinated the CHURCH to be of the SPIRIT nature, in a heavenly home, and that the world of mankind (or, mankind of the world) is promised a restitution TO perfect human nature, in a (paradise restored) earthly home? Heb. 3:1; I Cor. 15:49; II Pet. 1:3, 4; Gen. 13:14-17; Eze. 36:33-35; Amos 9:14,15; Isa. 65:21-25; Eze. 37:24, 25.

Did not God foreknow the fall and condemnation of all the world into sin and death? Did he not also fore- know and predestinate the SALVATION OF ALL from this condemnation? — and do not the glorious foreknown and predetermined purposes of God, as revealed by the promises of his word, guarantee a future probation to all the world? Rom. 5:16, 18; 8:29; I Pet. 1:20; Luke 3:6; I Tim. 2:3-4; 4:10.

Is not THIS beautiful scriptural doctrine of predestination entirely different from the hideous predestination theories of Christendom?