God Knew From Before Creation The Evil That Men Do

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.

“In the beginning, God made the heavens and the earth…”  And before the beginning, before the foundation of the world, Jesus was destined to be our Savior.  God knew from before how the whole “Earth” experiment was going to turn out, and God did it anyway.  God put Jesus among us anyway, to save us, despite all the evil and anger and destruction that humans have inflicted upon the creation.  That is a little mind-blowing.

So God knew all along what was going to happen in this world.  The death camps of World War 2, the Rwandan genocide, all the evils that humanity can commit.  I mean, of course God knew, but I never really thought about that.  What kind of evils did humanity commit for the Lord to destroy the Earth with a flood?  Even that was built into the destiny of Jesus from before the foundation of the world. 

Maybe that is why Jesus was destined to die from before the foundation of the world.  Maybe he was destined to die by the cruelty of the cross precisely because of the evils that humanity commits upon itself.  Maybe grace needed to come from cruelty so that we could find hope in even the most miserable of circumstances. 

I still do not understand why it all had to happen, why it continues to happen.  That is way above my pay grade.  But I do find myself grateful that God’s grace is sufficient, that God knew from before it even began what would be necessary to come through it.