Monday, September 14, 2009

Who is the Determinate Counsel that brings forth the foreknowledge of God?

Acts 2:23...Him, being delivered by the "determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God", ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

The Determinate Counsel of God is God the Father, God the son, and God the Holy Spirit. These three in unison foreknew what was necessary to make man holy in the presence of God.

If you go back to the days of the crucifixion you will find that Christ was delivered (by the Jewish Counsel)...over to the Imperial power of the Roman government (to be crucified)because the Jews had no legal right to put a man to death. The reason the Jews had no legal right to put a man to death is because they had to be subject to Roman Law...or be guilty of insurrection. In the very fact that Israel "lost" their authority to put a criminal to death a "fulfillment" of prophecy transpired. How? The Scepter or the authority of the Jew under Mosaic Law was not legally allowed to be executed under Roman Law. Why? Shiloh came! Shiloh was Christ! Shiloh was the Promised Messiah!

Gen 49:10...The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come;

The Romans (Pontius Pilate) found no fault with Christ.

Luke 23:44... Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man.

The reason Pilate found no fault is because Christ was innocent and without guilt.

All that said to say this one thing, "Neither Jew nor Roman could find fault or guilt with Jesus because he was innocent!"

The "determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God", (God in three persons) decided that an innocent Christ be chastised and slain for sins of humanity. God doesn't forgive your sins because you need it! God forgives your sins because Christ was innocent and without guilt.

Isa 53:10... Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him

This very foreknowledge (spoken by Peter)was pre-planned and pre-determined by the determinate counsel of God through Christ...the lamb of God slain from the foundation of the World.

Rev 13:8...And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

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