3582 - Judas and Destiny, Matt. 26: 23 by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 10, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 40.

3582 — Judas and Destiny, Matt. 26: 23

By Editor

"And He answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with Me in the dish, the same shall betray Me." Was there any destiny in the word "shall"?

We do not so understand it. It was simply a declarative foreknowledge of our Lord. God knew that Judas would betray Him, and He simply gave the sign by which His disciples should know. God's foreknowledge does not indicate foreordination. He sees the course that men will follow. He foretells and forewarns.