THE BOOK WRITTEN BEFORE TIME BEGAN

There are ten verses in the Bible which show that God's plan for the ages was all worked out before creation began.  God knew that, beginning with Adam, mankind would need a Savior before He created him!  That is why the Word tells us that God had determined to sacrifice Jesus, the Passover Lamb of God (Jn. 1:29, 36; 1 Cor. 5:7; etc.), prior to Jesus creating the world that would crucify Him (Jn. 1:1-3; Col. 1:16-17; Heb. 1:1-2; etc.)!  When you stop and think about it, how awesome is God's love for us, that He, knowing what it was going to cost Him, still created you and me!  In fact, the Apostle John tells us that God loves us with the same love that He has for Jesus (Jn. 17:23)!  I cannot fathom that!  I know why He loves Jesus, but I cannot comprehend why He loves you and me!  Here are the ten verses:

Matthew 13:35 - "That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world."

Matthew 25:34 - "Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand, Come, ye blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world."

Luke 11:50 - "That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation."

John 17:24 - "Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am; that they may behold My glory, which Thou hast given Me: for Thou lovedst Me before the foundation of the world."

Ephesians 1:4 - "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."

Hebrews 4:3 - "For we which have believed do enter into rest, as He said, As I have sworn in My wrath, if they shall enter into My rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world."

Hebrews 9:26 - "For then must He often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself."

1 Peter 1:20 - "(Jesus) verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you."

Revelation 13:8 - "And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."

Revelation 17:8 - "The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is."