GUIDE TO THE SCRIPTURES
Foreordination
See also Premortal Life

God's premortal ordination of his valiant spirit children to fulfill certain missions during their mortal lives.

God set the bounds of the people, Deut. 32: 8. Before I formed thee in the belly I ordained thee a prophet, Jer. 1: 5. God determined the times before appointed, Acts 17: 26. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate, Rom. 8: 28-30. He has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, Eph. 1: 3-4. Jesus Christ was foreordained to be the Redeemer, 1 Pet. 1: 19-20 (Rev. 13: 8). They were called and prepared from the foundation of the world, Alma 13: 1-9. I observed the noble and great ones who were chosen in the beginning, D&C 138: 55-56. My Beloved Son was chosen from the beginning, Moses 4: 2. Abraham was chosen before he was born, Abr. 3: 23.