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And not only the crucifixion itself was foreordained by the Plan of God,
but many of the surrounding events were also predicted hundreds of
years BEFORE the wicked men carried out God's Plan:
♦ the parting of Christ's garments and the casting of lots for His vesture
(Ps. 22:18; John 19:24)
♦ the giving of gall and vinegar to drink (Ps. 69:21; Matt. 27:34; John 19:29)
♦ the mockery on the part of the people (Ps. 22:6-8; Matt. 27:39);
♦ the fact that they associated Him with thieves (Is. 53:12; Matt. 27:38)
♦ that none of His bones were to be broken (Ps. 34:20; John 19:36)
♦ the spear thrust (Zech. 12:10; John 19:34-37)
Sayeth Dr. Lorraine Boettner:
"Listen to the babble of hell around the cross, and tell us if those men were
not free!
Yet read all the forecast and prophecy and record of the tragedy and tell us if every
incident of it was not ordained of God!
Furthermore, these events could not have been predicted in detail by the
Old Testament prophets centuries before they came to pass unless they
had been absolutely certain in the foreordained plan of God.
Yet while foreordained, they were carried out by agents who were ignorant of who
Christ really was, and who were also ignorant of the fact that they were fulfilling
the divine decrees, Acts 13:27, 29; 3:17.
Hence if we swallow the camel in believing that the most sinful event in all history
was in the foreordained plan of God, and that it was overruled for the redemption
of the world . . .
. . . shall we strain at the gnat in refusing to believe that the smaller events of our
daily lives are also in that plan, and that they are designed for good purposes?"
__Dr. Loraine Boettner
Dr. Boettner's quote can be found
HERE
