Clarify please. i.e. since God created humans who mostly reject Him, and most are on the wide road to destruction.... He created angels too, and what, about one third of the angels rebelled and are destined for destruction ?
As Yahuweh Scheduled all of our days before we were even conceived in the womb,
I hear that said a lot, but it does appear that God had to do a fair bit of arm-twisting to get some folks to voluntarily accept his call. Things like being hove into the ocean and swallowed by a fish, or knocked down in the road and struck blind, or having an angel waiting in the road with a sword to slice you into sushi. Maybe that doesn't constitute "force" when God does it, but it still doesn't strike me as gentle persuasion.
The day of destruction did not really come until the temple was destroyed in 70 ad. The Church age began in 29 ad. So they had a warning for around 40 years.
Howzat work? A prophet is one who delivers a message that God has given them to deliver. They're God's spokemen, who have the right to declare "Thus saith the Lord God". How do you train for that? Grammar and elocution?
At the foundation of the world the angels were singing. So they must have seen how this was all going to turn out. "On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone, while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" (Job38:6,7)
Holiness & Sanctification. Today we have the gift of prophecy, we do not have actual prophets like we did under the old covenant.
Mythology!
So God, who already knew Hitler, (?) placed his pre existent soul in the waiting fetus in mother Hitler's womb.
Sorry, but this has no biblical basis.
Just as today, the prophets of old were God's sons, people who had agreed to serve him.
If people use their gifts to honor God or not, they do seem to enjoy to use their gifts. Even pastors will try to call attention to themselves rather then to bring praise, honor and glory to God. "Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the most important seats in the synagogues and respectful greetings in the marketplaces." (Luke 11:43)
Everyone is suppose to have a choice. God is not willing that any should perish. Today we have Sackler to deal with. He has killed hundreds of thousands of people and no one seem interested in putting him in jail or doing something to stop him. When you look at the harm that people like Sackler and Hitler has done, it makes you wonder how they could harm so many people when the normal person does almost nothing to harm anyone.
We read about names written in the book of life at the foundation of the world. This is the sort of stuff we may not understand until we get to Heaven. Although I think it is possible to understand some of that now. "And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast— all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain" (Rev 13:8)
Different from a prophet though, because a teacher is called to live their life as an example for others. Prophets are judged more on the words they speak then the life they live. Although as a general rule I think that only a remnant 10% of the people actually represent God, because of the standard He sets. Many are called but few are chosen. Few of us are willing to live the life of holiness and sanctification that God requires of those who serve Him.
Jesus tells us to Love the Lord our God with all of our Heart, Mind, Soul & Strength. Can love be love is we do not have the freedom to choose? We have marriage today that is based on money. Can these people love also. OR do we have to choose a marriage based on money or love?
God is Infinite, the temporal world has corruption and decay and eventual death. God is not limited by time but I still wonder how the infinite controls the temporal.
To be clear I don't believe what I said but was making a point.
We are to have the mind of Christ and the Divine thoughts of God. "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus" (Phil2:5)
God who is defined in the scriptures as light, love and Spirit, is all-knowing and omnipresent. He knew Christ also prior to birth as we can tell through the prophets and is outside of time seeing the entire time continuum. Therefore he also sees your entire life and has also known you in the womb. Nothing is a surprise to God and Jesus tells us that when listening to the Spirit, He will show you things to come. The prophets were able to prophecy, tell of things to come because God already knew what was to come, it was already done!
