How God is Omniscient

[robert derrick]

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.

For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.

God is omniscient in that He is the One knowing all things in the beginning and in the ending, even as He is the beginning and the ending.

God is able to declare the end from the beginning, because He foreknows all things to come to pass from the beginning to the end.

How does God foreknow all things coming to pass, before their beginning?

Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

Because He already did see all things come to pass in His creation, even as He sees them now coming to pass in this world: God is watching everything of today, has watched everything of yesterday, and will watch everything of tomorrow, and He's already done it and seen it all:

And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

He knew what was, and is, and is to come before the beginning, because He has already watched it all come to pass from high above the heavens: the eternal God from everlasting to everlasting, watching all things come to pass in heaven and in earth from high above all times and time.

He foreknows all things, because He's already seen all things by watching them at the time of their passing.

And since the Word has seen it come to pass, then God knew it had come to pass in the beginning:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.

The same One that was with God in the beginning, was the same eternal God far above all heavens watching all things come to pass, yesterday, today, and forever:

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

 

[robert derrick]

God did foreknow everything from the beginning, that would come to pass unto the end: Because He has already seen and watched it all come to pass.

God is Three, and so the Word has seen all things during the time of their passing, and God He was with in the beginning foreknew it, even as the Word watched it happen: God' Omniscience by God's Omnipresence.

Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:

And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them.

No Scripture speaks of God soreseeing all things in His mind only, as with a vision of things to come. God does not have 'visions' for Himself to see. He gives visions and dreams to His people of things to come: But God alone knows all things, because He sees all things for Himself.

No Scripture says that God is 'inspired' pertaining to things to come, but rather inspires by His Spirit to give Scripture to His prophets and apostles: Men are inspired of God, but God is not inspired by any, but rather He sees it all come to pass.

Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out. (Job 28)

In the search for wisdom, Scripture says that God saw it, and then He declared it.

He prepared it and searched it out, and then saw it and declared it.

The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

And so by that wisdom of seeing all things from beginning to end, and understanding all such things in creation, He created and established the heaven and the earth in the beginning, before they ever came to pass.

God prepared all things in the beginning to create heaven and earth, and then searched it out from beginning to end to see it and so declare it:

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

God has already seen all things come to pass in this world unto the end thereof, when the new heaven and earth begins, because He watched it as it came to pass:

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.

The most High God sees all things coming to pass in heaven and in earth from above all heavens: The eternal God above all time, looking and see all things come to pass therein at the very time of their passing.

And so, the Word that was with God and was God did create all things in the beginning, knowing the end thereof from the beginning, by seeing it all as it came to pass:

The Alpha and Omega the Lord, which is seeing all things, and which was seeing all things, and which shall be seeing all things to come, the Almighty God, who therefore foreknew all things in the beginning, because He saw them at the very time of their occuring.

For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

Paul speaks of being a theatre for all to see, from which Shakespeare said all the world is a stage, and we are all players therein.

Paul did not need speak of God as seeing the spectacle of this world and this life, because He already knew God did see and know from Scripture:

It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.

The eternal God from everlasting to everlasting had a seat to look upon all things from far above the heavens and all times, and watched the spectacle of all His creation.

Even as He prepared and made it in the beginning, so he has already watched it, and is watching it, and shall watch it unto the very end: even as upon the big screen of all creation of the heaven and earth, until the final curtain.

And so, watching and having watched all from far above the heavens, He then declared it from beginning to end, before ever beginning to create it.

The Word was with God in the beginning, and watched and is watching all things from beginning to end, even as they come to pass.

God's omniscience is to foreknow all things from beginning to end, before the beginning ever was, because He Personally sat down above all heavens to watch it all come to pass, as upon a curtain, which curtain He then spread out for a tent to dwell in upon the earth, first in the tabernacle of the wilderness and then as the tabernacle pitched by Himself in the days of His flesh, dwelling among men Himself.

The Word who saw all things from beginning to end, and created all things in the beginning with God, made Himself flesh to dwell in the tent made of heaven's curtain, that He saw stretched out before Him sitting high above the heavens.

Being clothed in the similitude of sinful flesh pertaining to the body, He clothed Himself with the curtain of heaven on earth, upon which He personally wrote The Scriptures of truth.

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.