"the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world." (Revelation 13:8b)
The plan of the love of God meant from the foundation of the world setting His Heavenly Son on a path to birth as a mortal and death. Then resurrection and eternal life in the power of God. This love meant the Son would one day be flesh and bone and would suffer and die and this would have to be. This Son of Man, as the Son of God in the bosom of God's grace and love would ever be known and, in Heaven among the God's angels, had always been known before time began or stars were born, this Son would be slain one day. This had to be because God so loved the world - even before He made it through His Only-Begotten Son.
The plan of the love of God meant from the foundation of the world setting His Heavenly Son on a path to birth as a mortal and death. Then resurrection and eternal life in the power of God. This love meant the Son would one day be flesh and bone and would suffer and die and this would have to be. This Son of Man, as the Son of God in the bosom of God's grace and love would ever be known and, in Heaven among the God's angels, had always been known before time began or stars were born, this Son would be slain one day. This had to be because God so loved the world - even before He made it through His Only-Begotten Son.
