When Did the History of Our Redemption Start?

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.

From the very beginning, before the very beginning, God knew what was going to happen and God set the wheels in motion.  The death and resurrection of Jesus, the Son of God, was in play even before God ever said, “Let there be light.”  But it did not come at the beginning.  It needed to play out in redemptive history theology that the Lord set in motion throughout the years.  What Peter considered to be the end of the ages shows the boundaries of his knowledge.  He could not have known in his lifetime that two thousand years were going to pass, at the very least, that our understanding of the end was going to move from an immediacy to some unknown future, well out there.  Still, all of this was done for us, for our sake.  God created and executed a plan before, through, and ultimately after recorded history, all for us.

We are privileged.