What Does Predestination Mean?

Hank Hanegraaff, host of the Bible Answer Man, answers the question: "Does predestination mean that only a certain number of people will be saved, or can everyone call on Jesus and be saved?"

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[barbaramartin]

The one thing I've had explained to me about this subject, is that GOD doesn't decide so many people are going to Heaven and so many are going to Hell.

GOD picks us in accordance to his knowledge that we will pick him, he doesn't just sit in Heaven saying you're going to Heaven and you're going to Hell.

He gives people life or death according to the wishes of their heart.

[rogerkerr]

Are they Hebrews? *so am I* . Are they Israelites? *so am I* . Are they the seed of Abraham? *so am I.*
2 Corinthians 11:22 KJVA

"my kinsmen according to the flesh: who are Israelites; *to whom pertaineth* the adoption, and the glory, and *the covenants* (old and new), and the giving of the law, and the service of God, *and the promises* ; whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Romans 9:3‭-‬5 KJVA

"I say then, Hath God cast away his people _Israel_ ? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God hath not cast away his people _Israel_ which he foreknew.
Romans 11:1‭-‬2 KJVA

"For whom he did foreknow (ie. Israel), he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. *Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called*: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Romans 8:29‭-‬30 KJVA

"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: *having predestinated us* (Israel) unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, in whom *WE* (Israel) have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Ephesians 1:4‭-‬5‭, ‬7 KJVA

"But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, *brethren beloved* (Jer 12:7) of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and *hold the traditions* which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
2 Thessalonians 2:13‭-‬15 KJVA