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Isaiah 46:10
Excerpted from: The Christian Paradox (Part Two)Now let us get to the principle that I want to bring out here. And that is verse 17, the very last part, "God calls those things which do not exist as though they did." That is the principle. Now we know from Isaiah 46:10 that God knows the end from the beginning. He has everything laid out. He has a purpose. This, this, this, this, and this is My goal. He is not restricted by time as we are. Isaiah says He inhabits eternity. We do not know exactly what that means. It seems to me that He has access to all time, any time. I do not know if that is exactly what the Hebrew means, but that is the way it has been taught. So, God knows, He has expert knowledge, you might say, that this is going to happen at this time. This is also going to happen at this other time, these things will go along through the river of time and they are all going to come together in the Kingdom of God. He knows all this beforehand.
So He can speak of someone or decree something to be a certain way long before it ever happens in time or in reality. Because He is omniscient. Nothing is beyond His knowledge. We have to be careful that we do not think of God as too small because He can do things that we cannot even conceive in our little ape brains (that is using an evolutionary term). But yeah, we have a material brain and a human spirit and we cannot fathom a lot of things of what God can do. But He drops these kinds of principles on us every once in a while to broaden our mind. He calls things that have not even existed yet, even come into existence as though they were already finished, as though they were present and doing the things that they are going to do until the Kingdom comes.
And so we have to understand this, that this is one of the ways He thinks. He thinks of things not as they are, but as they will eventually be. It is a mind-blower.
Isaiah 46:9-11
Excerpted from: Free Will or God's Sovereignty?In verse 10, God says that at the beginning of something, He announces or makes known what will happen at the end. That goes beyond knowing in advance how cause and effect and natural law will play out. He knows that too, but here it means He has determined what that end is. That’s why He follows up by referring to what He will do so His purpose is worked out.
It is evident that God has no problem overriding the will of mankind, especially when mankind rebels against Him and tries to assert self-sovereignty. That is the context here. The nation that God redeemed from Egypt didn’t want Him any longer, and wanted the gods of the surrounding nations instead. So, God declares that the nation will be powerless against what He will cause to occur. If He has said it will happen, or if He has purposed it, He will bring it to pass because He is sovereign, not mankind.
There is no point at which God can know a name this many years in advance, but one more year would be too much for Him. As we saw, He declares the end from the beginning. If He has purposed it, He will also do it. God demonstrated His foreknowledge with Cyrus, and there is no scriptural explanation for why He could not also choose some from the foundation of the world and write their names in His Book. He works all things according to the counsel of His will, and His foreknowledge is beyond our comprehension.
Isaiah 46:8-10
Excerpted from: Do You See God?Brethren, what we have in these three verses is a general principle in which God challenges us to consider, to compare, all of the material idols, which are so easily seen, to Him.
Remember is a very important word to a true, spiritual religion. Remember that God's counsel stands. When He says something, it is so. It happens. God gives plenty of evidence to demonstrate that He can be trusted. Being able to see God and have faith is the result of seeing the evidence by which God demonstrated both Himself and His purpose in the former things.
Isaiah 46:9 says, Remember the former things. That is what David did. That is what Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego did. They remembered the former things. God demonstrated Himself in the former things - not only Himself, but also His purpose. We have to remember. But, brethren, it is really reinforced and built through obedience to His counsel in the present and seeing from one's own experience that it truly does stand. And then, one can see God!
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