According to what purpose are believers predestinated?
Believers are predestinated according to the purpose of God, who works all things after the counsel of His own will. Ephesians 1:11 states that in Christ they have obtained an inheritance, and this predestination is according to His purpose, not human merit or external factors.
Les teaches from Ephesians 1:10-11, a letter Paul wrote from prison in Rome, which takes us into the higher atmosphere of Christian doctrine and the Body of Christ territory, with no more reference to the Old Testament or the Jew. Paul writes that in the dispensation of the administration of the fullness of time, God will gather together in one all things in Christ, both in heaven and on earth, everything consummated in Him. In whom also we, as Gentile believers especially, have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him, who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. Les also connects this to the resurrection of Christ and the believer, tying it together with Acts chapter 2.
That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: