Before The Foundation of the World - Part 2

Everything of God, all His works, were finished before the foundation of the world. I know that our finite minds cannot always comprehend that, but it is true. In God’s eyes, everything is already finished that He will ever do. It is done. Jesus expressed it before He gave up His Spirit on the cross when he said: It is finished. He was verbalizing what His Father had already accomplished, what His Father had already done, what He and His Father had already seen in the Spirit.

We see in this passage of scripture that those who believe enter into the rest of the Lord, which is relaxing in His works already accomplished for us. It is not our responsibility to do it by our good works when He has already done all that needs to be done. Our part is to ask the Holy Spirit what we are to do to enter into the rest of the finished work.

Hebrews 4:3 Amplified Bible
For we who have believed (adhered to and trusted in and relied on God) do enter that rest, in accordance with His declaration that those [who did not believe] should not enter when He said, As I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter My rest; and this He said although [His] works had been completed and prepared [and waiting for all who would believe] from the foundation of the world.

In 1 Peter 1:19 and 20 we read that we were purchased with the blood of Christ, the Anointed One and His anointing. Before the foundation of the world He was ordained to shed His blood for us to remove our sins and transgressions and sicknesses and diseases and all the results of sin. What wonderful information we have here. Jesus Christ chose to die for us before the foundation of the world. I can just see Him and the Father and the Holy Spirit in the conference room of heaven making their plans before the foundation of the world. What planners. What a plan. You and I can be eternally thankful for their plan for us as mankind. I know that I am grateful for what the blood of Jesus Christ purchased for me.

1 Peter 1:19,20
But [you were purchased] with the precious blood of Christ (the Messiah), like that of a [sacrificial] lamb without blemish or spot.
It is true that He was chosen and foreordained (destined and foreknown for it) before the foundation of the world, but He was brought out to public view (made manifest) in these last days (at the end of the times) for the sake of you.

Once again, we see in the scripture in Revelation that Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, was slain before the foundation of the world. The lambs which were chosen each year from out of the flocks of the Israelites for the Day of Atonement (the day of blood shed to cover sins for a year) were to be without spot or blemish. They were representative of the Lamb of God Who was without spot or blemish, Who would shed His blood, not to cover our sins but to wash them away, to cleanse us from all sin. His blood was and is precious blood. His blood is the most precious price paid for us. We can now live free from sin and all its consequences.

Revelation 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.

Isn’t it such an overwhelming thought to realize that God Almighty had us on His mind before He even made the world, before He even made us. He had everything planned in minute detail for our provision, regardless of what we would do. If you will consider this thought and ponder it, you will realize what a great love He had for you. He loves you so much that He was not willing that you should perish just because your forefather Adam and his wife disobeyed God. God is so desirous that you have the best, that you are free from the bondage that satan wants to put you in and keep you in. Today, as you read this Pearls of Wisdom, you are a free person, free from sin, free from sickness and disease and a prosperous person. Receive it today, even if it doesn’t look like it in the natural. Believe and receive.