What does Acts 2 say about all things happening according to God's predetermining counsel?
Acts 2 affirms that all these things happened according to the predetermining counsel of God. Israel’s crucifixion of the Messiah was not an accident or a divine surprise; it occurred within God’s eternal purpose, because He works all things after the counsel of His own will.
Les teaches that the same principle is seen in Ephesians, where Gentiles obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will. He then ties this back to Acts 2, saying that according to the predetermining counsel of God, all these things had happened. God was not caught off base when Israel crucified the Messiah; it was all in the eternal purposes. He also points to II Timothy 1:8-9, where God has saved us and called us.
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 is the determinate counsel of God in Acts 2:23?
The determinate counsel of God is the Trinity's pre-creation consultation and agreement about how fallen man would be redeemed.