God Had A, Has A, Continues to Have A Plan

1 Peter 1:20

He was destined before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of the ages for your sake.

There was a time lag from the beginning of creation to the revelation of Jesus’ destiny.  We can surmise that if Jesus was destined for the work he would accomplish before the foundation of the world, that if God knew what was coming through the history of his creation, that the time he was revealed was built into his destiny.  What this takes an awful long time to say is that God has a plan.

That means Jesus’ coming during the Roman occupation of the Holy Land was no accident.  It was within that evil empire that the church was to be incubated, eventually conquering the Roman Empire.  That means the history previously is a lead up to the main event, the life of Jesus.  Therefore, a divine connection on one small piece of real estate tucked at the far edge of the Mediterranean Sea was set in motion by God to what has created the world’s largest religion.

It means that what is happening even today, well after the effective knowledge window of Peter as a writer in the Bible, is part of that same destiny.  It is part of that same plan.  I wonder how it will roll out for us next.