Prophecy and Predestination

 

 

Prophecy and predestination

Go hand in hand

Hence, prophecy must be certain

Since predestination is God’s plan.

 

Prophecy says it will happen

Predestination is of God,

We say God is working out His plan

But this tense I appall.

 

God has already worked it out

And His plan is unfolding,

Unlike man he makes no changes

As all things He is upholding.

 

Legislators make amendments-

“Oops! There was an oversight!”

Because at the time they deliberated

Something did not come to light.

 

 

This is a constant with the law

Due to the nature of man

And changes have to be made

When things go adrift of his plan.

 

There are loop holes in the law,

Some say they are deliberate

But not all of them could have been

Unless lawyers are illiterate.

 

However, with an omniscient God

This could never be so,

Unlike the brightest of men

There is nothing God does not know.

 

 

All is laid bare before God:

The past, the future, the present

And nothing can thwart predestination

For predestination is His intent.

 

All He predestined He foreknew

Thus, His plan is foolproof,

Whether it be past, present or future

Bible prophecy is truth.

 

 

Not one single Bible prophecy

Has failed to come true,

Tell this to modern-day prophets-

Maybe they’ll change their view.

 

Their failure rate is high

Though this does not deter them

And the fact that they still persist

Poses a huge problem.

 

There are Biblical prophecies

That do not comprise God’s plan

But that come true, nevertheless,

On account of man.

 

Some prophecies are conditional-

Dependent on how we behave

Like for those that reject the Christ,

That comprise the unsaved.

 

2 Peter 1:21

 

For the prophecy came not in old time

By the will of man:

But holy men of God spake

As they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

 

The prophecy that matters most

Is what God has predestined,

Namely the Holy Bible:

This should occupy our minds.

 

Especially as it points to Christ

And the glorious redemption of man,

This is what God has predestined

Regarding His salvation plan.

 

The validity of the Bible

Is in its fulfilment of prophecy,

God declares the end from the beginning-

Predestination is a certainty.

 

Stewart Russell © May 1, 2021