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NASB | Revelation 13:8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been slain. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 13:8 All the inhabitants of the earth will fall down and worship him, everyone whose name has not been written since the foundation of the world in the Book of Life of the Lamb who has been slain [as a willing sacrifice]. |
Subject: Whose will causes a believer to sin? |
Bible Note: Dear Hank, " So your argument is that it was God's will that the fall of Adam and Eve would occur?" How else then could it have occured if God had not permitted it to occur. He is Lord over all creation. Nothing can take place that is not in accord with God's eternal purpose. Our problem is that we don't see the "Big Picture". We don't understand the glory of God's eternal plan. We look at tiny slices of life and think we know it all. Take the case of Joseph and his brothers for instance. Had we been there we would have questioned why God would allow the brothers to be so sinful as to plot the death of young Joseph. But all along God had planned tremendous good to come out of evil. Here comes the tricky part...Gen 50:20 "As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive. "but God meant it.." Acts 4 basically teaches this same principle. God had ordained the actions that surrounded the murder of Christ. Does that make God the author of sin. Of course not. Just as Joseph's brothers meant evil, Pilate, Herod and the rest meant evil as well. BUT GOD MEANT IT FOR GOOD! The same is true going all the way back to Adam and Eve. "God often brings good out of evil, and promotes the designs of his providence even by the sins of men; not that he is the author of sin, far be it from us to think so; but his infinite wisdom so overrules events, and directs the chain of them, that, in the issue, that ends in his praise which in its own nature had a direct tendency to his dishonour; as the putting of Christ to death, Acts 2:23." (Matthew Henry Commentary) I guess that it boils down to the question: Does God know the future because He knows how everything will turn out (which means He is passive in His rule) or Does He know the end from the begining because He ordained all things that occur (which means He is active in His rule.) I see everything that happens as being part of God's eternal plan. The cross was planned along with everythingelse before the foundation of the world. Eph 3:11 This was in accordance with the eternal purpose which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord, John |