Foreknowledge

God’s foreknowledge

Everything is within God’s knowledge

Isaiah 42:9 NASB95

“Behold, the former things have come to pass, Now I declare new things; Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”

See also 1 Ki 22:14; Da 2:28; Mt 24:36

What God knows he ordains

Isaiah 46:10–11 NASB95

Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things which have not been done, Saying, ‘My purpose will be established, And I will accomplish all My good pleasure’; Calling a bird of prey from the east, The man of My purpose from a far country. Truly I have spoken; truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, surely I will do it.

See also Ac 2:23; Ro 8:28–30; 1 Pe 1:1–2

God’s foreknowledge of the Messiah

Acts 3:18 NASB95

“But the things which God announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.

See also Is 11:1–3; Is 53:7–9; Mic 5:2; Ac 2:22–23; Ac 4:27–28; 1 Pe 1:20

God’s foreknowledge and his election of his people

God’s sovereign choice

Romans 8:29 NASB95

For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;

See also Pr 16:4; Ro 9:11–12; Ro 11:2; Eph 1:4; 1 Pe 1:1–2; 1 Pe 1:20

Human responsibility

Hebrews 2:3 NASB95

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? After it was at the first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard,

See also Jn 3:18; Jn 3:36; 1 Co 15:2; 2 Co 6:1–2; Eph 5:5–6; Heb 3:12; Heb 6:4–6; 2 Pe 2:1; Heb 3:15; Ps 95:7–8

Jesus Christ’s foreknowledge

Of events within his general ministry

John 6:64 NASB95

“But there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him.

See also Mt 17:27; Mt 26:31–34; Lk 22:34; Jn 13:38

Of his suffering and departure

John 13:1 NASB95

Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

See also Mt 26:18; Mk 8:31; Lk 12:50; Lk 22:37; Jn 3:14; Jn 7:33; Jn 13:11; Jn 13:33; Jn 14:28; Jn 17:5; Jn 18:4; Jn 19:28

Of his coming in glory and judgment

Matthew 16:27 NASB95

“For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and will then repay every man according to his deeds.

See also Mt 24:30–31; Mt 25:31; Mk 8:38; Lk 24:26

Jesus Christ’s lack of knowledge of the timing of his coming in glory

Mark 13:32 NASB95

“But of that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.