Ephesians 1:11

According to. God rules over history. In the message of the Good News, God's plan and decision, which he had already decided from the beginning of the world, was revealed to the entire world! Christ is the sole means or agent through whom God's predetermined (foreordained) purpose of putting men right with himself is fulfilled. The Expositor's Greek Testament says: "The fact that we were made the heritage of God is thus declared to have been no incidental thing, nor an event belonging only to time or one having its explanation in ourselves, but a change in our life founded on and resulting from the eternal foreordaining purpose of God Himself." Lipscomb says: "God foreordained the provisions of salvation, the characters that should be saved, and the conditions and tests by which they would be saved. He left every man free to choose or reject the terms and provisions of salvation and in so doing to refuse to form the character God has foreordained to be his children and so predestined to everlasting life." Compare Romans 8:29-30 and notes.