Was Israel's gathering against Jesus part of God's predetermined plan?
Yes. The people of Israel were gathered together to do whatsoever God's hand and counsel determined beforehand. Acts 2:23 shows nothing happened that God did not foreordain; it was all in His eternal purpose. The apostle Paul writes of this further in Ephesians 1:11.
Les explains that Israel's gathering against Jesus was not outside God's control. Peter, referring to Psalm 2, shows that the rulers were gathered against the Lord and against His Christ, and this involved both Jew and Gentile, making the whole human race guilty. Yet the people of Israel were gathered together to do whatsoever God's hand and counsel determined before to be done. Les emphasizes that God was not caught by surprise, and nothing happened that He had not foreordained; it was all in His eternal purpose. Jesus came to be Israel's king, and the apostle Paul later writes of these further revelations in Ephesians chapter 1, verse 11.
For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
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