Predestination
The subject of predestination has been the source of controversy for over 500 years. Predestination is clearly a biblical subject. However, it has been defined improperly, resulting in a theology of works. The definition of predestination must take into account the fact that there is time, which is linear, and the eternal, which is nonlinear. They both coexist and each defines human existence from a different but not competitive point of view.” Before you were in your mother's womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I said you apart. I appointed you a prophet to the nations." (Jer.1:4). Where was Jeremiah before he was in his mother's womb. God knew him with specificity," (he was a prophet to the nations). Do you have a destiny that has been known in the mind of the Lord before you were in your mother's womb? Why are you here? What destiny were you created to have?

God's Promise to Ishmael
The Arabs are suddenly in the news every day. Why? When you consider that they are the descendents of Abraham's son Ishmael, it would appear that there is a biblical purpose underlying this sudden emergence onto the world stage. Christians have been long preoccupied with the nation of Israel, and have largely ignored the Arabs. In light out of recent global events in which ethnic Arabs have been involved in committing horrific acts of terrorism, it is easy to marginalize and even to hate this important people. Their role in the unfolding events of prophetic scriptures regarding the summing up of the age is second in importance only to the Jewish people. When the Arabs, as a nation (ethnos), come to Christ, they will bring gifts of worship to the body of Christ. Their coming to Christ will also initiate a chain of events that will engulf the Jewish people, and will conclude with the rise of the Antichrist and the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.