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1 Peter 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia,
Asia, and Bithynia,
[2] Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,
through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you,
and peace, be multiplied.
Who are these "elect" according to the foreknowledge of God the Father?
It is unfortunate that "traditional Christianity" does "not" teach about the earth age that existed when Satan
rebelled and drew a third of God's children away from our Father (Rev. 12:4).
Oh, they recognize that it happened (the evidence is everywhere) but seem unable to connect it with the fact that
there was once a cataclysmic event that destroyed every structure and every living thing on this planet and the
entire global surface was covered with water.
Woe, I take that back, He destroyed every animal and plant type living thing, but not us, His children. We were
at that time still in our spiritual (celestial) bodies. He just removed us from this earth prior to His destroying it in
His fierce anger.
You can read about that destruction in Jeremiah chapter 4. or log into live link to - "The age of the dinosaur"
http://americanwisdomseries.com/1003conf.htm
[23] "I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light."
Yep, this is what it looked like in Genesis 1:2 when He was finished wiping everything out!
One needs to know and understand the use of the Hebrew words "tohu va bohu", without form and void.
And please note the fact that there was no light,
which is why He would first say in Gen. 1:3 "Let there be light".
There was light during the flood of Noah, so let's "not" be ignorant (or sottish) and try to say this was Noah's
flood.
[24] "I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly."
[25] "I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled."
[26] "I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the
presence of the LORD, and by His fierce anger."
Isaiah 45:18 "For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God Himself that formed the earth and made it;
He hath established it, He created it not in vain, He formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none
else."
God didn't create the earth void and in a state of total destruction, which is what the words "without form and
void", tohu va bohu in Hebrew, mean. But it "became" (translation) that way in Genesis 1:2 when our Father
knocked this planet off its True axis, which is why magnetic north and true north are 80 to 90 miles apart
depending on the wobble, and slightly out of it's True 360 day orbit around the sun.
Job 38:4 "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding."
[5] "Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or Who hath stretched the line upon it?
[6] Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or Who laid the corner stone thereof;"
[7] "When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?"
Yep, all of them sang for joy, including Satan, because this was before iniquity was found in him and he drew a
third of God's sons away from Him.
But after his rebellion, Satan was judged in that "world that then was",
a phrase Peter will use in chapter 3 of his 2nd book, and sentenced to die!
Of course God wasn't too happy with the rest of His kids who sided along with Satan, but rather than judging
them and perhaps sentencing them to die, He postponed judgment until after the Millennium, after His Plan to
redeem them, the Plan of Salvation (which means to salvage), has been accomplished.
The apostle Paul knew all of this, just like Peter did. They both speak of the time before the "foundation of this
earth age" so matter of factly that it makes you wonder "why" everyone doesn't talk or teach about it.
Ephes. 1:4-5 "According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy
and without blame before Him in love:"
So we see that God predestinated His elect to be used according to the good pleasure of His will", i.e. however
He so chooses. Our Father knew us all, long before we were born of woman to temporarily dwell in a flesh
tabernacle, which we call our body.
Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I
sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations."
We know that Satan drew 1/3 of God's sons away from Him, but there were some who stood and fought against
the dragon [Satan] and made our Father proud of them.
They exercised their "free will" then, (in the 1st earth age) and they chose to love God and not Satan, and so God
has chosen them and predestined them to be a part of His plan in this (2nd) earth age.
He has used them all down through history until even now.
And you know what else? He chose the last ones, the elect who would be present during the final generation,
first!
So no altar call is necessary for God's elect, His chosen, because when He's ready to use them He'll let them
know.
He might knock them off their horses or have them swallowed by a big fish or just call them away from fishing
if they are the type who haven't let their free will run riot, like some He has to rescue from themselves first.
If you understand any of that which we are talking about, then you can fill in your own experience.
Read Romans 8:29-39 and discover that God's elect were not only chosen and predestinated, but "them He also
justified".