Did God foreknow or look down over time from His creation of the world to see the destruction of this world and sin with all its horrors, as that destruction is described in the Bible? J. W. M.
If our inquirer would stop to think a moment he would answer his own question we are sure. How do we know that the sin-cursed earth will be cleansed and that sin will be blotted out? Of course you will say that the Bible reveals it. But how did the men who wrote the Bible know? The Scriptures answer, "They spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost," or by the Spirit of God. It is called foreknowledge, therefore, that reveals to us the great future; and the apostle declares, "Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world." Acts 15:18. God has His great, clear, definite plan, planned for all eternity. If man yields himself to God's purpose, God will work out a character for man which will exist eternally. If man will not yield to God's plan and purpose, he certainly takes himself outside of that plan, and all outside of that will be destroyed. "Every plant which My heavenly Father hath not planted," Jesus declared, "shall be rooted up."