BY ERASMUS MAKARIMAYI GOD the Creator who is now our Father is all-knowing. Out of His foreknowledge, He instituted salvation for fallen humanity by the preaching of the Gospel of Christ. He prepared aforetime the Grace of God, the Good News of Jesus Christ or His Glad Tidings to gather all His people into one in Christ. This message of Christ presents salvation by grace through faith not of works, but by the finished/accomplished work of Jesus Christ. We can further say it is unearned, undeserved, unmerited and humanly unattainable favour. This gospel shows how from before time, God had humanity’s redemption on paper so to say. The sacrificial death, burial, resurrection, ascension and sitting on high of Christ Jesus wasn’t a hastily arranged stop gap measure. Though not carried out before, in eternal records it shows it was a concluded agenda. Revelation 13:8 points out, “And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” I want the part which reads, “slain from the foundation of the world.” Although the actual event happened in time, eternity had settled it. This also adds impetus to the seriousness of salvation. God is love whose love went ahead and solicited our freedom from sin. While the devil was celebrating assuming that he had killed the main hurdle of destruction of Christianity, it didn’t dawn on him that the opposite was happening. What he saw as victory, was his fall and humiliation. 1 Corinthians 2:7-8, AMP, hammer it, “[7] But rather what we are setting forth is a wisdom of God once hidden [from the human understanding] and now revealed to us by God — [that wisdom] which God devised and decreed before the ages for our glorification [to lift us into the glory of His presence]. [8] None of the rulers of this age or world perceived and recognized and understood this, for if they had, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.” Salvation was and is the heartbeat of God. In types and shadows of the Old Testament, we are told in the revelation of Scriptures that the glorious light of salvation shone out of darkness. 2 Corinthians 4:6, point out, “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” This is what we read in Genesis 1:2-3, “[2] And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. [3] And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” This light speaks of our deliverance from the shackles of darkness. As a Bible reader, you know that this light in Genesis 3 isn’t our solar system which came on the fourth day. John speaks of this light pointing to Jesus. John 1:4, reads, “In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” We are told earlier that in the beginning was the Word and that the Word was with God. Throughout the pages of the Bible we see this light. Isaiah 60:1-3, h