December 22, 2024

Ephesians 1:3-6

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
4 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:
5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

“The fullness of time” emphasizes the realization of God’s saving promises (cf. Mark 1:15). In Eph 1:10 God has so designed history that his plan “for the fullness of the times” was to unite all things in Christ.