Nobody can pretend ignorance in order to excuse their sins (part 20):

[Leonardo Von]

Nobody can pretend ignorance in order to excuse their sins (part 20):

Behold where we can see His wisdom:

10 – in the foundation of the world (Prov 8:29)

What can we see in the foundation of the world?
    

1 – Creator’s care for us choosing us:

•    “according as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,” (Eph 1:4).
•    “And all dwelling on the earth will worship it, those whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain, from the foundation of the world.” (Rev 13:8).
•    “The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to ascend out of the abyss and go into perdition. And those dwelling on the earth will marvel, those whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.” (Rev 17:8).

    2 – the kingdom the Creator prepared for us:

•    “Then the King shall say to those on His right hand, Come, blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” (Mat 25:34).

3 – The infallibility of Creator’s work (all His works is concluded, that is to say, He doesn’t need to intervene so that His plans works out – see also Job 42:2; Isaiah 43:13):

•    “For we who have believed do enter into the rest, as He said, "I have sworn in My wrath that they should not enter into My rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.” (Heb 4:3).

Although the Creator loved us even before the foundation of the world, this doesn’t mean that we won’t experiment any problem. See what said Jesus:

•    “Father, I desire that those whom You have given Me, that they may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me, for You have loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (Joh 17:24).
 
Although the Father always loved Jesus, see how the Creator manifested His love for Him:

•    “…you were not redeemed with corruptible things, silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot; indeed having been foreknown before the foundation of the world, but revealed in the last times for you,” (1Pe 1:18-20).

If, on the one hand, this looks like terrible, see the outcome of it:

Eph 1:20  which He worked in Christ in raising Him from the dead, and He seated Him at His right hand in the heavenlies, 
Eph 1:21  far above all principality and authority and power and dominion, and every name being named, not only in this world, but also in the coming age. 
Eph 1:22  And He has put all things under His feet and gave Him to be Head over all things to the church, 
Eph 1:23  which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. 

So, may this promise be fulfilled in us:

Eph 1:17  that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, 
Eph 1:18  the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of His calling, and what is the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 
Eph 1:19  and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us, the ones believing according to the working of His mighty strength 

    Have a good weekend pondering on this.