Saturday 8-6-22 7th. Day Of The Weekly Cycle, Av 7 5782 47th. Summer Day
God Predetermines The Events Of Life Ecclesiastes 3:1-9
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
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“God Predetermines The Events Of Life Ecclesiastes 3:1-9”
Do you believe man has a choice that God places before him ?
“
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
in that I command thee this day to
love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
I call
heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:”
Deuteronomy 30:15-19
see this is how God has always operated with man . God tells us the truth about good and evil which brings blessing or cursing and then warns us of the consequences this gives us information to make a choice we will accept the truth and live or reject it and die but he’s not forcing us to choose either way he’s saying believe me and you’ll live
it was the same for Adam God blessed him in all things then told him the truth about the fruit “ don’t eat this fruit you will certainly die if you do “
they chose to believe satans word “ no you won’t die it will make you wise “
at this point they’ve been presented a choice between good and evil the truth and a lie they chose the lie just as israel chose cursing and death disregarding his word of promise and warning so they chose and died just like God warned them
they found out Satan lied
and God was telling the truth they chose wrong when he presented them the truth and Satan came after telling a lie which ever they follow is the choice they made
in Christ we also have a choice now again we can live or die
“Know ye not, that
to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey;
whether of sin unto death,
or
of obedience unto righteousness?”
Romans 6:16 KJV
“For
if ye live after the flesh, ye shall
die:
but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.”
Romans 8:13
the more we understand the clearer the choice becomes we can choose the world or we can choose the kingdom
this gave the world a choice
“And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world
for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”
Matthew 24:14 KJV
as we hear Gods witness of his son we’re becoming more aware of a choice we make with our lives in serving sin or serving God
I would suggest that God doesn’t force mankind’s decisions but he knows the darkness in us so he has foreknowledge of everything he knew man would become wicked and need salvation from the start but it’s
not God who caused Adam and Eve to eat the fruit that was satans work and thier servitude to satans lie
god didn’t cause this it was not his Will that’s why he’s repenting here for making man and giving us earth
“And GOD saw that
the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ( not Gods work)
And
it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
And the LORD said,
I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air;
for it repenteth me that I have made them.”
Genesis 6:5-7
God didn’t intend to create an evil world full of violence and death we did that with The dominion he freely gave us
“And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for
the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.”
Genesis 6:13 KJV
from Satan to Man and into the world. God didn’t force man into this position he told us how to stay out of the situation and then the devil corrupted us this brought God repentance and sorrow a grievance in his heart that he’s even created us
do you see what I’m saying ? God is all knowing he knows the end from before the beginning he knows how it will go how it will all end how he will redeem all creation after , but cause it he didn’t the devil corrupted man and man corrupted the earth
Christ for instance was for ordained but he came from what God knew would later come to pass
there’s a time in the ot en israel
Provoked God breaking his covenant and worshipping false gods for generations this caused Gods wrath to come on them
this caused him to do evil upon them as he said he would , but from the start Gods Will has always been life for mankknd , he keeps telling us how to live but we keep rejecting it and following the world