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Before the World Began

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Verse 1
Before the world began (II Tim. 1:9)
You heard creation sing
The hills and meadows ringing with Your praise (Job 38:4-7, Ps. 19:1, Ps. 148:3)
Our names were in Your master plan
Before the world began (II Tim. 1:9, Tit. 1:2, Eph. 1:4-5, Rev. 13:8)

Verse 2
Before the world began (II Tim. 1:9)
You knew we would be lost
You knew what it would cost to bring us home (I Pet. 1:18-20)
Our names were in Your master plan
Before the world began (II Tim. 1:9, Tit. 1:2, Eph. 1:4-5, Rev. 13:8)

Bridge
You knew You would become a man like us (Heb. 2:14, Phil. 2:7)
Before You fashioned Adam from the dust (Gen. 2:7)

Verse 3
Before the world began (II Tim. 1:9)
You saw us justified (Eph. 1:4, Rom. 8:29-30)
You saw the spotless bride You died to save (Eph. 5:25-27, Rev. 19:7-8, Rom. 5:8)
Our names were in Your master plan
Before the world began (II Tim. 1:9, Tit. 1:2, Eph. 1:4-5, Rev. 13:8)

Release Information

Released on Somewhere East of Eden (CD/streaming, 2020).

Author & Composer

Words by Daniel J. Mount | Music by Daniel J. Mount and Ben Garms

Publishing Information

Completed on November 1, 2012.
© 2012 Tomorrow’s Hymns/BMI | The Song Spot/BMI. If you have any interest in or questions about using this song, please contact daniel@danielmount.com.

Song Story

After I’d written most of the songs for Somewhere East of Eden, I felt like I was still missing the right opening song. I wanted to write something about what happened “Before the World Began,” and ultimately settled on that as the title. So I decided to work through what Scripture tells us about what God was doing before the world began.

 

Revelation 13:8: “All who dwell on the earth will worship him [the beast], whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” From the foundation of the world, God has already written the names of those He would save into His book of life.

 

Ephesians 1:3-6: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.” Before the foundation of the world, God chose us in Him and predestined us to adoption as His sons (and daughters).

 

We don’t know what else He did before the foundation of the world. But He has chosen to tell us that He’s been looking out for us before the world began. By name.