Pretribulation and predestination are beautiful and meaningful words: The noun pretribulation shows in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, the Lord Christ coming to midair to call His bride-body-church to come up where He is, to be forever with Him; thus, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12, lists the events that will happen before the Lord Christ comes for His body, the church, and when the man of sin will be revealed. All this has been thoroughly explained in many of the post already sent.
The noun predestination is a beautiful, biblical truth if properly understood and not divorced from the free-will God gave us, for the noun predestination is understood to be, “Before God created anything, He already knew every detail about everything of the universe He was about to create; thus, God knew the plan, purpose, and timing for every minute detail of everything He created, and Psalm 139:13-16 says, God prewrote the complete details of everyone’s life in our personal book, and He prewrote in the Book of life, everyone’s name that would ever be saved; thus, there have never been or ever will be any changes to any of these books.
Human thinking, according to 1 Corinthians 2:6-16, cannot understand spiritual truths, for all biblical truths are spiritually understood, because of what Jesus says in John 16:5-15, about the Holy Spirit guiding individuals into all truth and tells us things to come. When we study the teachings and writings of others and not totally depend on the Holy Spirit’s knowledge and wisdom, we will only learn what people know rather than what the Holy Spirit knows.
Since Psalm 37:23-24 says, “23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and He delights in his way. 24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; for the Lord upholds him with His hand.
God orders our steps the way He saw our steps before time began, so now God sees that our lives are the way He foreknew they would be, for every detail of our lives was already know to God.
It is obvious the Lord not only has prewritten every detail of our lives in our book, but He also makes happen what has already been prewritten about us; thus, every detail of life is preplanned with purpose and exact timing to begin and end; therefore, in Washington, DC, the House without a Speaker, was already known and prewritten in all their books, before God created anything, but God has not yet revealed the purpose for the time without a Speaker of the House, or the time one will be elected or the time one is not elected. Everything in life happens to teach us to trust God.
In Matthew 13:24-30 and 36-43, Jesus both told and explained His parable of the wheat and tares that grew alongside each other, looking alike, but later were divided, to reveal which was wheat and which was tares. Likewise, in Luke 12:49-53, Jesus says He did not come to earth to give peace but division, for division reveals the truth about our character and integrity.
During the division in Washington, DC of the House without a Speaker, we are able to see who is for America and who is not, who needs to be returned to office and who does not, and it is the same way in everything in life. Who obeys union bosses and who appreciates having a job.
Everything that has already happened, is happening now, and will happen, was already known to God, became part of His plan, purpose, and timing, and predestined to happen exactly as written in everyone’s personal book and the prewritten names of everyone in the Book of Life that obeys and trusts God.
Since the Holy Spirit revealed this to me during all the blood tests, doctor visits, and pet scan, to determine if infection was growing on the pig valve placed in me fourteen years ago that seems not to be doing the purpose intended, yet I feel as if everything is functioning perfectly just the way God originally created me, for He has allowed me to go through many painful problems, to teach me how to overcome the satanic fear of death, so I could learn to trust Him in everything; now I am joyfully thankful God loves me enough to allow all this to happen for my eternal good, but before time began God saw every detail of my life and wrote it all in my personal book.
Jim, Kim, and Tim Nabors
