Predestination, Revelation and The Seed

The thought process here is about predestination and will.

I have often pondered and thought about predestination as contrasted with will. I see both clearly in the Bible, but have problems with the seeming contradiction.

I have been processing the writings of Jacob Boehme and William Law from the 1700’s. In their writings, they speak of creation and many of the aspects of it in respect to Genesis. One of the things brought to light is the idea that the “seed” of the woman Eve is in fact the Seed of Christ, The Bruiser of the serpent. This “Seed” is a spiritual seed and not a physical one. However, in child-bearing, it is the physical seed that is evident and bears it’s humanly natural fruit. Those fruits are self-protecting and ego-centric. Naturally loving itself first and more than any. That seed is at enmity with God. But the other seed planted within every human is the Hope of redemption, the Seed of the Bruiser of the head of the serpent. Alive but ungerminated and  without fruit. Not brought forth by natural water and light, but only by the Water and Light of God. Revelation!

That seems to contradict the idea of predestination that is brought forth in Romans and Ephesians.

Romans 8:29-30 (KJV) 29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

Ephesians 1:5 (KJV) Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

Ephesians 1:11 (KJV) In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

Does predestination actually mean fulfillment? Just because a young prince is predestined to be king, does that ensure that the destiny is fulfilled? Could the young prince fall ill and die before his destiny is realized? Does that death nullify the destination? Will not another rise in his place? And is that other now predestined?

Is it possible that all of humanity was predestined for eternal relationship with God The Father (“be fruitful and multiply“)? But that predestination was short-circuited by the death in the garden. The young prince (Adam) gave up his place and destiny to walk beside his Father God all the days of life. A life of living, watching in wonder the ever revealing, never ending glory of God. Learning and growing as a son of God for all of eternity. In awe, ever worshiping and loving The Father as he receives the infinite and unbounded, jealous love of God. Given up for a life with boundaries and restraints. The first being separation from God in spiritual death and the next being separation from life by physical death.

But God is still The Father. He still loves His creation. The destination remains. To be by His side. God is high and lifted up. He still sits enthroned forever. In spite of the rejection and death of His creation, He plants a seed of life in the darkness of the dead dirt called humanity. The curse of the woman is the pain of child-bearing, yet the hope of humanity is in planted by God in that same woman. The Seed of the Bruiser of the head of the serpent. That Seed, only able to germinate and burst forth from the dead dirt of humanity by The Light and Living Water of God by revelation. Revealed and shown to humanity as another destiny. A predestination? A destiny of life and living rather than the one of death and end of living. A destiny that was before the destiny now evident by the multitude of graves and gravestones. Grim markers of a final act and hopeless end. Death. The destination of all that continue in the rejection of God by the first (Adam) and eternally multiply it in the rejection of the redemption to God by the second (Jesus Christ).

So, I say that there is a choice to be made and regardless of the choice, a predestination comes with it. There is a definite and determined outcome for  choices made. But choices are made based on perceived knowledges and truths. The flavor of the outcome is determined by the quality, quantity and relationships of the individual components of the recipe.

Update 2/18/23

Accepting the sovereignty of God The Father, predestination moves out of the realm of human understanding. It is a revelation that cannot be settled with mere human knowledge and intelligence. Predestination is the glory of God, a glory which no man has seen, nor can see. However, the knowledge and evidence of predestination are there nonetheless. That people continue to call upon the Name of Jesus to be saved is that evidence. Not to sound circular, but the call to salvation is the evidence of the destiny one is called to. All hear it, yet some do not respond. It is a noise, not a personal call, a crank call, likely a scam. The destiny is that which responds, is the one who answers the call, hears the call of their name. God has their number, knows their name. Vessels of honor to honor and vessels of destruction to destruction. It is the potter Who creates the vessels and their purpose. That one realizes that the vessel of their life is called to honor is a humbling revelation. A knowledge that buckles the knees and bows the head in grateful submission to the One Who created them to honor. The grace extended and the cost of Christ that attained it. The vessel created to destruction and dishonor, does not even realize the destruction it is called to. It doesn’t recognize the glory and hope it is missing. It doesn’t count the cost of Christ nor does it accept that it is necessary. However, humanity does not know the predestination of any. The only proof available is in the elect, the predestined that have embraced their election. It is the work of the elect to farm the fields of humanity, seeking the predestined. Shaking the sleepy awake, those who will wake up. The sleepers sleep, but perhaps one day, they will awaken and realize their predestination. So we keep shaking and waking, for we never know the predestined of God unless they wake :)