of your fathers. Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and

apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute: that the blood of all the

prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this

generation" (Luke 11: 47-50). The witness of God's prophets, silenced by murder or

persecuted will be used by God to condemn the offenders across the world's history.

Man will have no excuses at the day of judgment.

(4)  "Father . . . . . Thou lovedst Me before the foundation of the world" (John 17: 24).

The span of the love of God for Christ is seen for Christ's participation in His plans for

the redemption of the world. This love was twice witnessed to the world by the

Father's voice from heaven: "This is My beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased"

(Matt. 3: 17 and 17: 5).

(5)  "According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we

should be holy and without blame before Him in love" (Eph. 1: 4). The calling of the

church of the One Body is in view over the span of the ages.

(6)  Read Heb. 4:, the word "foundation" occurs in verse 3. God's rest from creation

(works in verse 3) typifies the millennial kingdom where a company of elect believers

will find a place. Again we have links in a long term plan.

(7)  "For then must He often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once

in the end of the world hath He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself"

(Heb. 9: 26). Here is the culminating work of Christ, the key to all the Father's plans.

In verse 24 we also read "Now to appear in the presence of God for us". This supreme

work of Christ was so important in God's sight that hundreds of years passed with the

O.T. laws and Temple ritual committed to Israel prefiguring the work of the Lamb of

God and our Saviour.

(8)  "Redeemed . . . . . with the precious blood of Christ . . . . . foreordained before the

foundation of the world" (I Pet. 1: 20). Peter's added testimony that Christ as the

Redeemer of mankind was ordained from the very beginning.

(9)  ". . . . . and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been

written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was

slain" (Rev. 13: 8 R.S.V.). God foreknew the names of those who would worship the

beast of Rev. 13:! These would not be written in the book of life.

(10) ". . . . . they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, 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 shall be present" (Rev. 17: 8 R.V. margin). Those faithful believers and

overcomers at the time of the end will not be deceived by the deceptions of the beast:

God's overruling love and provision will over His elect to the end.