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This snippet bears repeating:

Do you know what I see is lacking in the body of Christ when it comes to history? We need to see God's providential hand. Where are we? If we don't know where we are, it's awfully difficult to know where we're going. Our Commander in Chief has a battle plan that's been going for over 5,000 years and it began before the foundation of the world.

Do you know that God the Father and God the Son planned to save your miserable, rotten little soul, and mine too, long before you were ever born? They planned the death of the holy righteous Son of God for you and for me. But not only that we might be saved, but that we might glorify Him, that we might then fulfill the mandate of Genesis 1 to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it for God's glory, that the time would come, as it states in Scripture, that every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.

The Goal of History

The purpose of history is not your salvation or mine. Sometimes evangelicals have made the mistake of making evangelism the goal. Evangelism is the major means of accomplishing the goal. But God's goal is that He might be glorified. His glorification is our goal, not evangelism. Without evangelism, of course, there'll be no cultural change, but God's way starts with understanding that the purpose of history is to glorify God.

Thank you - yes it does. (bear repeating).

Way back when, I learned the Catechism. (The shorter version). The first question in the Catechism (which for years was taught to Sunday School children - and adults - in Protestant Churches for memorization and recitation ---- is "What is the chief end (goal/purpose) of man". In other words, why are we here on this earth? What is the purpose of the life (of each human being)?

Wonder if any reading this might recall the answer from the Catechism to that question? It is also the answer from the Bible.

(Thanks for your comments).