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Bro Branham taught that predestination is based on God's foreknowledge, where He foresaw those who would accept Him and elected them accordingly before the foundation of the world. Evidence: [ADOPTION 1 — 60-0515E: ¶106–¶109]; [GOD’S COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM AND HIS SEED — 56-0223: ¶40–¶43]
Election looks back to this foreknowledge, while predestination points to destiny, as God chose individuals like Abraham by election to demonstrate justification, grace, and perfection through the patriarchs. He explained that names of the elected Bride were placed on the Lamb's Book of Life before the world's foundation, making them secure from deception by the antichrist. Evidence: [GOD’S COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM AND HIS SEED — 56-0223: ¶48–¶52]; [ADOPTION 1 — 60-0515E: ¶108–¶109]; [THE PATMOS VISION — 60-1204E: ¶5–¶8]; [QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON THE SEALS — 63-0324M: ¶110–¶113]
The Bride was chosen in Christ eternally, as part of God's unchanging plan, with the early Church (type of the Bride) baptized into Him; those foreknown were called, justified, and glorified, inseparable from the seed promise like Abraham's. No one is saved by works but by recognizing their predestinated position through grace. Evidence: [PROVING HIS WORD — 64-0816: ¶211–¶213]; [GOD’S COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM AND HIS SEED — 56-0223: ¶48–¶52]; [THE SEED SHALL NOT BE HEIR WITH THE SHUCK — 65-0429B: ¶47–¶49]
Predestination looks back to foreknowledge, I mean election. Election looks back to foreknowledge, and predestination looks to destiny... God, before the foundation of the world, elected that the cocklebur was to become a grain of wheat. [ADOPTION 1 — 60-0515E: ¶106]
By foreknowledge He seen that I would love Him, so He made a propitiation through His Own Son... He put your name on the Lamb’s Book of Life... By election He chose them, and by predestination they know where they are going. [ADOPTION 1 — 60-0515E: ¶107–¶108]
God by foreknowledge could set election. Therefore when He called Abraham... Abraham is election. [GOD’S COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM AND HIS SEED — 56-0223: ¶48–¶52]
By election, God chose His Bride by election before the foundation of the world, put their names on the Lamb’s Book of Life slain before the foundation of the world. [THE PATMOS VISION — 60-1204E: ¶5]
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