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| No one should boast before Him (1Co 1:29) |
In reading the prophecy fulfilled in the story of Josiah's reformation in second kings 23, one question arises: "If God is all knowing is free will illusion?" About 340 years prior to the event, it was prophesied that a son named Josiah would be born in the house of David, doing the reformation, bringing down the altar Jeroboam had built. So more than 3 millennium before God knew Josiah would be born and do what he did. Does this mean God is all knowing and therefore all controlling rendering the idea of free will to be an illusion? The answer of course is no. Why? 1Ki 13:33 especially the phrase "Even after this" affirms the free-will. The Lord believes in the free-will, so he expected Jeroboam to choose good over evil, yet "even after this (including the prophecy on Josiah)" he chose ways that are evil.
2) No longer unbelief, but absolute faith in Him from first to finish.
Question becomes, "Why did Jeroboam choose that way?" There were seven miracles given to him. (a son named Josiah to be born 340 years thereafter, undoing what Jeroboam was doing; altar split, ashes falling off; hand shriveled up; hand restored upon receiving prayer; the death of the man from Judah; the lion not touching the dead body of the man; the man buried in a heathen town) Yet why did Jeroboam fail to change his ways?
Romans 1:5 stands out to answer the question: "...obedience that comes from faith", so that we are not saved by our good works but by grace that comes through faith in the Lord, so no one can boast. Eph 2:8,9
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