What does it mean that God in His foreknowledge saw every detail coming through history?
God's foreknowledge means that before history began, the Triune God in eternal counsel determined a plan for the ages and saw every detail of it unfolding through history. Though men and nations act according to free will, everything still arrives exactly at God's predetermined purposes, as Acts 2:23 declares.
Les teaches that God's foreknowledge is tied to His eternal plan for the ages. In Acts 2:23, Peter preaches on the Day of Pentecost to Israel, rehearsing that they had crucified their Messiah, but he says Jesus was delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. Les explains that sometime in eternity past the Triune God in counsel determined the plan, not needing a long afternoon to debate it, and in His foreknowledge He could see every detail of it coming on down through history. Men and nations still have a free will and do pretty much as they think they want to do, yet the end result is bringing everybody and everything to the end of God's purposes.
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
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What did God's predeterminate counsel and foreknowledge include from eternity past?
God's predeterminate counsel and foreknowledge in eternity past included everything, so nothing in all of God's working was unknown to Him, and His foreknowledge extends from eternity past through consummation to the end of time.