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Dear @Grandliseur
You are implying that God knowing the futures means that he didn't take into account our free will and our decisions, when taking His decisions about the future. This doesn't sound Scriptural, indeed God always wanted us to cooperate in His salvation plan.
Now here is a logical explanation of the above sentence.
Since you talk about the future, I hope you have familiarity with logical reasoning.
Premise: God created men with free will.
Now, imagine 2 possible different timelines in the history of the world.
TIMELINE 1 - what is predicted (the events are in order):
Event A: Jesus preach the Gospel
Event B: His disciples START to spread the Gospel in the whole world
Event C: His disciples prepare the bride (the Spiritual Church) by ardently desire the return of the Bridegroom, the Lord
Event D: one of the events predicted, say, a war
Event E: one of the events predicted, say, a tribulation
Event F: one of the events predicted, ecc.
Event G: The Gospel is finally spread all over the world, and all over the elects cry and shout to the Lord (Luke 18:1-8) for His return
Event H: The Lord has set the time of the End here (from the very beginning of His creation), by knowing that B, C and G would have happened and by taking into account them too.
Event I: Something else that may have happened if the Lord didn't cut short the days, but will never happen because the Lord knew that B, C and G will happen before.
Now the Lord, by knowing this timeline, have told us some things that will happen in the last days, like D, E and F that you can find forecasted in the Bible. It doesn't mean that when setting the time for H, he didn't take into account B, C and G, on the contrary, he gave importance to His people in cooperating in His salvation plan, and to their actions and prayers, and decided the date for H by taking into account them too!
Now imagine another timeline (that luckily will not happen, because the Lord has predicted that the Timeline 1 will happen)
TIMELINE 2 - what could have happened if nobody cared about the Gospel (the events are in order):
Event A: Jesus preach the Gospel
Event B: Nobody care
Event C: The few that care, think that they'd be better off to hope the Lord to return very late
Event D: one of the events predicted, say, a war
Event E: one of the events predicted, say, a tribulation
Event F: one of the events predicted, ecc.
Event G: The Gospel is still almost unknown
Event (here is where in the other timeline Jesus Return) H : The Lord could have set the time here if his Bride should have cooperated, but since nobody cared and nobody wanted His return, He delayed His return. So nothing happens here
Event I: other events that in Timeline 1 wouldn't have happen, but in this timeline happen
Event J: other events that in Timeline 1 wouldn't have happen, but in this timeline happen
Event K: other events that in Timeline 1 wouldn't have happen, but in this timeline happen (etc.)
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Event V: FInally someone wake up, understand the Good News of the Kingdom, spread it and pray "Come"
Event Z: The Lord by knowing the timeline, has set the date here (from the very beginning).
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In timeline 2, More events happen, so more events would have been predicted if it was what the Lord forecasted. But luckily, we are in timeline 1, because from the beginning people started to spread the Gospel;
by taking a quick look on Google by typing "Hastening the return of Jesus", looks like there are many pastors from different denominations (and non-denominational) who understood the Lord's prayer Peter and Revelation, and are teaching to hastening the Return, so the question is: who will join?
My dad died on January 1, 1990...........
I had been fasting on Yom Kippur for more than a decade before that........
so I was asking myself questions that most non Messianic Christians don't usually ask themselves.............
By Yom Kippur of 1990, (or a few weeks afterward).... I specifically prayed and asked The Ancient of Days the FAther / YHWH...... in the name of Messiah Yeshua - Jesus... if He had any use for a volunteer........... goat for Azazel........???????????
....."but the goat on which the lot fell for Aza'zel shall be presented alive before the LORD to make atonement over it, that it may be sent away into the wilderness to Aza'zel."(Leviticus 16:10RSV)
......IF....... a volunteer "goat for Azazel" would have been any use to YHWH/ The Ancient of Days the FAther.... .I said that I would do it............
and I postulated a number of variations on HOW??????
As you can guess..... all hell broke loose in my life.... but 27 years later and I know that in spite of the danger.... that was probably one of the most significant things that I ever prayed about.......
Bar Abbas / Barabbas seems to have been drafted.........
and we Canadians have a tradition that somebody should volunteer for suicide missions.......
At the time that I prayed what I prayed......
I did not expect to still be alive in 2017..... and i certainly did not expect to have received the off the scale Grace and mercy and series of miracles that I have received ...... especially since the year 2000............
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