If GOD knows the future, why did he create angel and man who would sin?
I have been asking questions about the Bible and sharing the scriptures that answer the question in my church for a while. Some people give me question that they want help finding the answer for. This question is one of those questions. Most of the time the question I get from GOD comes to me when I am reading scripture. When this question was given to me, I was reading in Jeremiah 30:12-15 So I am going to use this scripture for this question. As I looked for scripture to answer the question, I felt GOD telling me to separate the question into 4 different questions. As I share these questions on my blog, I am going to make 4 different blogs.
The 4 different questions are.
Does GOD know the future?
Did GOD know Adam and Eve were going to sin?
Why did GOD create angels?
Why did GOD create man?
The scriptures I am using for this question is Jeremiah 30:12-15 and Genesis 1:27.
Jeremiah 30:12-15 says, “This is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable – a terrible wound. There is no one to help you or bind up your injury. No medicine can heal you. All your lovers – your allies – have left you and do not care about you anymore. I have wounded you cruelly, as though I were your enemy. For your sins are many, and your guilt is great. Why do you protest your punishment – this wound that has no cure? I have had to punish you because your sins are many and your quilt is great.” Genesis 1:27 says, “So GOD created human beings in his own image. In the image of GOD, he created them; male and female he created them.” My question for these scriptures is. Does GOD know the future?
Genesis 1:27 tells us that GOD created human beings. Jeremiah 30:12-15 tells us that human beings sinned. And that sin is a terrible wound that no medicine can heal. There is prophecy throughout the Bible. There is also scripture that tells that the prophecy came true. Before I give those scripture let us look at the meaning of prophecy. According to Dictionary.com the meaning of prophecy is. The foretelling or prediction of what is to come. Something that is declared by a prophet, especially a divinely inspired prediction, instruction, or exhortation. A divinely inspired utterance or revelation.
Jesus’ birth was prophesied in Micah 5:2.” But you O Bethlehem Ephrathah, are only a small village among all the people of Judah. Yet a ruler of Israel will come from you, one whose origins are from the distant past.”
Jesus’ birth is in Luke 2:1-7 “At that time the Roman emperor, Augusta’s, decreed that a census should be taken throughout the Roman Empire. (This was the first census taken when Quirinus was governor of Syria). All returned to their own ancestral towns to register for the census. And because Joseph was descendant of King David, he had to go to Bethlehem in Judea, David’s ancient home. He traveled there from the village of Nazareth in Galilee. He took with him Mary, his fiancée, who was now obviously pregnant. And while they were there, the time came for her baby to be born. She gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him snugly in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no lodging available for them.”
Jesus’ birth is also in Matthew 1:18- 2:6. “This is how Jesus the Messiah was born. His mother, Mary was engaged to be married to Joseph. But before the marriage took place, while she was still a virgin, she became pregnant through the power of the Holy Spirit. Joseph, her fiancé; was a good man and did not want to disgrace her publicly, so he decided to break the engagement quietly. As he considered this, an angel of the LORD appeared to him in a dream. “Joseph, son of David,” the angel said, “do not be afraid to take Marry as your wife. For the child within her was conceived by the Holy Spirit. And she will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins” All of this occurred to fulfill the Lord’s message through his prophet. “Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means “GOD is with us.” When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of the LORD commanded and took Mary as his wife. But he did not have sexual relations with her until her son was born. And Joseph named him Jesus. Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea during the reign of King Herod. About that time some wise men from eastern lands arrived in Jerusalem asking “Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw his stair as it rose, and we have come to worship him. “King Herod was deeply disturbed when he heard this, as was everyone in Jerusalem. He called a meeting of the leading priest and teaches of religions law and asked, “Where is the Messiah supposed to be born?” “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they said, “for this is what the prophet wrote.” “And you, I Bethlehem in the land of Judah, are not least among the ruling cities of Judah, for a ruler will come from you who will be the shepherd for my people Israel.”
Jesus’s betrayal was prophesied in Psalm 41:9. “Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.” Jesus prophesied his own betrayal in John 13:18 – 27. “I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’ I am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place, you may believe that I am he. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.”
Jesus’s betrayal is found in Matthew 26:14-16, 25, 46 -50. “Then one of the twelve, whose name was Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?” And they paid him thirty pieces of silver. And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him.” “Judas, who would betray him, answered, “Is it I, Rabbi?” He said to him, “You have said so.” “Rise let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand. “While he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the elders of the people. Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I will kiss is the man; seize him.” And he came up to Jesus at once and said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” And he kissed him. Jesus said to him, “Friend, do what you came to do. “Then they came up and laid hands-on Jesus and seized him.”
I have 3 scriptures that tells me that GOD knows everything about me and the future.
Ephesians 2:10. “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
1 John 3:20. “for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.”
Isaiah 46:8-10. “Remember this and stand firm, recall it to mind, your transgressors, remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose.”
Every time I read scripture and see GOD at work and the things he knows and does, it makes me feel small in this world. And when I look at my past and how GOD has helped me in my life, I feel Blessed and Thankful that he is GOD. If I knew my future and the future of the world, I would probably make bad choices for myself and others.
My question for the world is. Do you trust GOD with knowing what is best for you in your future?
My prayer is OH Heavenly Father, you created the world. You put me on earth in the time you prepared for me. I do not know what plans you have for me or the world. Be with us each day. Guide our steps with your love. When there are troubling times comfort us with your loving arm. Put the right people in our lives that will show us your ways.
Amen
