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“Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God.”  Acts 2:23. counsel and foreknowledge of God.”  Acts 2:23.    It’s the Day of Pentecost, following the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and Peter is preaching one of his greatest sermons to the huge crowd of people assembled in Jerusalem from all over the world; to wit:  “And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven … Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians…But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words…Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you; as ye yourselves also know: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain.” (Acts 2:5,9-11,14,22,23) 
 
Again: there is nothing that happens that God did not do it.
 
Yes! Including the twenty-two dead U.S. soldiers and LEOs.
 
Yes! The wars that are:
 
 
 
 
Yes!  The wars to come:
 
 
 
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PRETERITION – PREDESTINATED TO GO PREDESTINATED TO GO TO HELL TO HELL    Like all God’s Holy Decrees, the Decree of REPROBATION is an eternal Decree.  Many say – as a school of Lutheran scholars and theologians, in particular – that predestination is proper only for the elect, and that as to the reprobate, there is only a prescience or naked foreknowledge; no preordination; and sometimes called PRETERITION – (a mere passing by) – that is, as to the reprobate, God merely passes him by and leaves him in his sins.  But Scripture is strong in the position that just as God actively predestinates some few members of Adam’s race to be saved; even so, God actively predestinates all the huge balance of Adam’s vile seed to be damned – and even pickles him so that he is preserved in his sins to be damned; to wit: “The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly” – (i.e., the Elect) – “out of temptations, and to RESERVE” – (i.e., pickle, or preserve in their sins; or, to prevent escape from their sins and temptations and final judgment by a guard or fortress of full military lines of apparatus) – “the unjust” – (i.e., the non-Elect or Reprobate) – “unto the day of judgment to be punished.”  2 Pet. 2:9.  Listen to this simple declaration of truth in Proverbs 16:4; to wit: “The Lord hath made all things for himself; yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.”  Prov. 16:4. 
 
Yes! All the crimes, alleged and otherwise:
 
 
 
 
 
Yes! All the weather, global and stellar events:
 
 
 
 
 
 
THE FATHER’S WILL ABSOLUTELY  PREVAILS    Another incident – with almost identical wording – occurred in Luke Chapter 10; and there, these additional words are added; to wit:  “In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father…”  Lk. 10:21.  “Jesus rejoiced in spirit,” means Jesus was thrilled to the point of exulting and leaping for joy.  Beloved, if the Lord Jesus was so happily thankful that the Father’s WILL ABSOLUTELY PREVAILS in every situation, surely we should find great comfort and joy in the same considerations in our meditations.   
 
Yes!  All the deaths:
 
 
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