“Before the Foundation of The World”

By Tammy Lacock

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be Holy and without blame before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4, KJV)

In this new study, Foundation Set 1, Warren Litzman uses Apostle Paul’s writings to lay the foundation for us to understand what Paul calls "the mystery.”

“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27, KJV)

For over 4,000 years before Christ, God withheld the mystery from man, until the Holy Spirit revealed it to Paul. God chose Paul to bring this liberating secret to the world. Paul tells us this liberating secret is “Christ in you, the hope of glory,” and this secret was in God’s mind before the foundation of the world! It was then God decided to take a part of Himself, His Son, and place Him in every born-again human. When we believe in Christ as our Savior, we go through a new birthing, when the incorruptible seed, Christ, is placed in us, making us brand new creations, not just a better version of ourselves.

Jesus introduced this mystery with Nicodemus, the leader of the Pharisees and Jews during that time in John 3:3 when he said “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Being born again means a brand-new creation. We are no longer of this world; we are a heavenly people. And this can only be by Christ being our new life. By Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, we died in Him and arose with Him to a new life in Him.

“Before the foundation of the world,” God chose us humans to be placed in Christ. God’s plan of our redemption and reconciliation back to Him in Christ is no longer a mystery according to Paul.

John also wrote of this mystery in John 14:20, years after Paul’s death, when he shared Jesus’s words, “At that day, ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.”

Mystery revealed!