To put it in today's terms, this means that God passed over the New York City and Chicago of their day, and instead chose to kick - start
His great plan of salvation in the kind of town you'd only stop in when you are running out of gas on the way home from vacation.
Not exact matches
The mystery
of creation and the history
of salvation can then be shown anew to the world with
great clarity and power as the one unfolding
plan of Gods Wisdom and Love in which all things are ordered towards the incarnate Lordship
of Jesus Christ in whom we are destined to be made co-sharers
of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4).
There are a number
of great rabbit trails whether you want to look the blood
of the «eternal covenant» noted in Hebrews, a covenant which is not written about in scripture anywhere, but implies that the
plan of salvation is before all time — and it is the blood
of the cross which impelled Christ from the grave.
From the perspective
of this kind
of salvation history, both church leaders and churches are
of great importance because the American democracy represents God's
plan for the world.