is 'eth'Ha'adham' in the Hebrew, with the article and particle. The particle 'eth' is always emphatic, and 'Ha' is for extra emphasis, pointing to a special condition.

Genesis 2

Gen 2:1    Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

      So God finished the heavens and the earth 'which are now'

 

II Peter 3:7: ‘But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgement and perdition of ungodly men.’

 

 Also my last Letters on Genesis).

 

This word 'host' is 'tsaba' in the Hebrew, meaning 'a mass of persons, especially organized for war (an army)' (Strong's 6633). This then refers to all the 'sons of God', or all souls created in the beginning, and now sides were chosen for the spiritual battle to take place for this second earthly age today.

 

 Eph.6:11: ‘Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil.’

 

Eph.612: ‘For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.’

     Paul relates to us the story of Jacob and Esau, and how God loved Jacob, but hated Esau, before either of the children was yet born in their mother's womb, before either had the chance to do good or evil.

 Rom.9:  Read All.

 

In Jeremiah 1:5 God would say to Jeremiah: "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations."

 

 Also see Isaiah 45 where God also calls Cyrus His anointed, and that God surnamed him.

     The point I'm trying to make is that these Scriptures are some of the many in the King James that refer to 'predestination' of the soul. Many of Paul's writings in the New Testament refer to the idea that God 'foreknew' and 'predestined' certain chosen ones. This is the true meaning of 'chosen', as Christ would say of Paul in Acts 2, for Paul was persecuting Christians before Jesus struck him blind on the road to Damascus, showing that Paul didn't come to Christ; He came to Paul and intervened. Paul's free will was not 'in play'.

 

 This intervention happens all throughout God's Word, if you're open to it and look closely.

God will, and has stepped in directly to cause certain events, in order to position His elect for His purpose. This should be a sign to you from our Father's Word that even before Jesus died on the cross, God has chosen, or 'pre-ordained' certain ones to help carry out His Plan. Hence, no big mystery if these certain 'chosen' ones were selected in the first earth age, the time of Satan's rebellion, because they followed and served God at that time instead of turning to Satan. Since a third of the stars ('sons of God', but these known as 'fallen angels') followed Satan in that first earth age.